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The volume of garbage collected in Cebu City has almost doubled in past months, an official said. Cebu City Councilor Nida Cabrera said she has “lost my title as queen of garbage” (rayna sa basura)” with the…
City Hall tears down houses; displaced families asked to leave Inayawan school The Cebu city government yesterday demolished houses and other structures near the piles of trash at the closed Inayawan landfill. A day before, families who…
When Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama first disclosed through his point man lawyer Jade Ponce his plan to convert the former Inayawan landfill site into a mixed-use development project, not a few came away admitting that his…
INVEST IN DUMPSITE? Area to be fenced after families evacuated from Inayawan First, the Inayawan landfill was closed in mid-January. Then, it was cleared of settlers. Next is a proposal to fence the property. All this…
How does Cebu City plan to dispose of its garbage if it can’t pay tipping fees to transport trash? Only P51 million of the requested P122 million budget for tipping fees at a private landfill in Consolacion…
With five pigs and one goat to keep him company, 71-year-old scavenger Felix Banua sat glumly outside his shanty at the Inayawan landfill and pondered on where he and his family would go next. “Sige gyud mi…
The Inayawan landfill was finally closed in mid-January by City Hall, but where’s the closure and rehabilitation plan? The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has again asked Cebu City to submit its closure and rehabilitation…
A report about the imminent danger of a “garbage landslide” faced by around 70 families living at the Inayawan landfill brings to mind the July 11, 2000 Payatas tragedy. At least 300 people were buried under a…
Is the sudden relocation of informal settlers in nearby Inayawan landfill in preparation for the multi-billion mixed-use development project in the city waste site? Though Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama said the relocation is meant to prevent…
No relocation site is ready yet. None of the 70 families living in the Inayawan landfill have been evaluation for social housing or briefed about the terms. Nevertheless Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama, back from an official…
Garbage collected from Mandaue City’s 27 barangays will be segregated first in their area before these are brought to a transfer station in the former Umapad dumpsite. Engr. Ricardo Mendoza, head of Mandaue City Hall’s City Environment…
Not long after Cebu City closed its Inayawan landfill site in mid-January, enterprising groups have offered to collect garbage from business establishments, schools and hotels for higher fees. In yesterday’s Cebu City Council session, Councilor Gerardo Carillo…
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