City Council urged: Pass proposed plastic ban measure without exceptions

Futch Anthony Inso 03/04/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Environmental advocates want the Cebu City Council to approve the proposed ordinance which bans the use of single-use plastics without any exceptions. Nash Yap, one of the coordinators of Basura Run, said that…

Runner showcases “basura” costume in Cebu Marathon

Cris Evert Lato-Ruffolo 01/14/2019

  LILOAN, CEBU – Wearing a 16-kilogram costume made of sachets and bottle caps, yoga teacher Jonathan Dungog finished the 42-kilometer run during the Cebu Marathon 2019 on Sunday, January 13.  For the past six years, Dungog,…

Switch disposables for reusables, Sinulog guests urged

Cris Evert Lato-Ruffolo 01/10/2019

CEBU CITY, Philippines — As the Sinulog Festival fever rises up, a group of environmentally conscious advocates called on both partygoers and pilgrims to bring their own reusable bottles or tumblers to lessen plastic pollution.  Tony Galon,…

Team Rama: Is ‘Basura Mo, Sardinas Ko’ program working?

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 04/25/2017

IS Cebu City Hall’s “Basura Mo, Sardinas Ko” program actually motivating city residents to properly dispose of their garbage? The Team Rama bloc of the Cebu City Council asked this question in yesterday’s session as they asked…

Basura mo, sardinas ko

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 04/01/2017

PART 1 Eight-year-old John Paul Liray ignored the drizzle. He was busy putting the trash he collected from a dirty creek into three sando bags. Despite his frail frame, he carried the bags to a compactor truck…

‘Nalutsan ta sa shabu sa basura’

Lloyd Suarez 02/19/2017

Bisan ako nagduda gyud nga plantalya lang kadtong mga basura nga gipalusot dinhi sa Sugbo ug gitapok diha sa Tingub, Mandaue gikan sa South Korea. Nagtuo gyud ko nga mga shabu ang gihatod dinhi sa Sugbo unya…

With the rest of the garbage

Raymund Fernandez 11/15/2016

Yesterday, we “buried” Marcos at the Lubnganan sa mga Basura, better known as the Inayawan Sanitary Landfill, so to speak, together with the rest of the garbage. The sponsors of this mass action invited us to make…

City saves P250K a day on garbage tipping fees

Nestle L. Semilla 07/07/2016

For the last ten days, Cebu City has saved at least P250,000 from tipping fees since the reopened the Inayawan landfill. Department of Public Service officer-in-charge John Paul Gelasque told members of the media in Thursday that…

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