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It’s certainly not pleasant to hear people asking you if they can dump their garbage right in your backyard. That’s essentially Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama’s proposal to Talisay City Mayor Johnny delos Reyes after the mayor…
In this zero-waste declared month of January, a war on waste is looming between the cities of Cebu and Talisay. Cebu City Mayor Rama recently closed the Inayawan dumpsite (I refuse to call it a landfill as…
Only three out of Cebu City’s 80 barangays have makeshift material recovery facilities (MRF), making it difficult for the city government to reduce the volume of garbage it receives from city residents. “These are in Kalunasan, Apas…
Talisay City Administrator John Yre delos Reyes yesterday clarified that a plan to allow Cebu City’s trash to be dumped in the landfill in barangay Tapul, Talisay is not yet final. While mayors of the two cities…
Barangay captains in Cebu City’s south district yesterday agreed to help each other by clustering garbage collection and lending resources to villages with no trucks to haul trash. Joel Garganera, chairman of barangay Tinago and vice president…
The Cebu City government is pushing through with the total closure of the Inayawan Sanitary Landfill by January 15. With this, Mayor Michael Rama issued an order informing all barangays, city hall department heads and the police…
Cebu City Hall will enforce a full closure of the Inayawan landfill by January 15. “We decided that by January 15, we are strictly closing down the landfill. There will be no more new wastes there. The…
A Vancouver-based group will invest US $20 million to build a waste-to-energy facility in Lapu-Lapu City. The project is the first renewable energy venture investment of the Aquilini Mactan Renewable Energy Inc. (AMREI) in Asia. The first…
The image of a mother in Carles, IIoilo carrying her infant near a heap of burning trash which included styrofoam and other food packages is still vivid in my mind. I lost no time in telling her…
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