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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…
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)…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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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