No final disposal site for hospital wastes

04/22/2015

DENR reviewing technical competence of PASSI After hospital wastes are treated, where do these go?” This question was posed by Eduardo Llamedo, Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) spokesman,  to explain the Environmental Management Bureau’s refusal…

Infectious hospital waste piling up in Metro Cebu

04/21/2015

No permit for collector PASSI due to  ‘violations’; Where will waste go? More than 30,000 kilos of infectious waste from health care facilities across Metro Cebu have been uncollected for a month. The Environment Management Bureau (EMB)…

Garbage landslide threat

04/16/2015

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…

Garbage, illegal quarrying observed in Mananga River

Melissa Q. Cabahug 03/22/2015

CAPITOL employees and street cleaners of Talisay City cleaned up the Mananga River yesterday as part of the yesterday’s World Water Day celebration. Czareem Joseph Estella, head of the Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Office said they…

Unsolvable crime?

Atty. Gloria Estenzo Ramos 03/02/2015

On my way to the Mactan airport, a heartbreaking sight caught my range of vision. A male senior citizen nonchalantly poured a pail full of debris into the polluted river. Obviously, it was a destructive regular habit…

Barangay garbage segregation prioritized

Norman V. Mendoza 03/02/2015

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…

VSMMC fined P500 for failing to segregate garbage

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 02/10/2015

ABOUT 11 dump trucks were used to collect the garbage generated by the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (VSMMC) which also paid a P500 fine for not segregating their wastes. Ma. Victoria Villarojo, VSMMC´s housekeeping chief, said…

Review sought on garbage collection fees

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 02/09/2015

Further study and consultations should be made by Cebu City Hall before it decides to raise  garbage fees for collecting trash  from commercial establishments. Councilor Nida Cabrera said this after the Solid Waste Management Board (SWMB) called…

City Hall vows to improve garbage collection

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 02/06/2015

Hospital garbage piled up behind the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (VSMMC) is so bad medical staff and passersby wear face masks. “Dili na jud madala. Baho kaayo unya hasol kaayo mag suot ani (face mask) (I…

Waste management board member to quit

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 02/06/2015

After being questioned about a potential conflict of interest, Francisco Paragas said he would resign as a member of the Solid Waste Management Board of Cebu City. “I can better serve in a private capacity,” he texted…

Much ado about city trash, SAF massacre

Ricky Poca 02/03/2015

I don’t know if a final agreement has been reached between the cities of Cebu and Talisay about transporting some of Cebu city’s trash to the dumpsite in Talisay. The proposal  became controversial when Talisay City councilors …

Long road, long wait

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 01/28/2015

It’s a long, winding and uphill road that Cebu City’s garbage trucks need to take before reaching the private landfill in barangay Polog, Consolacion town, northern Cebu. The trucks pass through the busy Banilad-Talamban Road everyday, then…

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