THERE were “suspicious circumstances” that may link the shipment of 5,000 metric tons of trash from South Korea to Cebu to the closure of the Inayawan landfill. During yesterday’s resumption of the House Ecology Committee’s inquiry on…
As people returned to their homes after visiting their departed loved ones last November 1 and 2, tons of garbage were left behind in Cebu City’s public cemeteries. The Department of Public Services (DPS), yesterday, began…
AN establishment along the Butuanon River in Mandaue City joined the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in the observance of National Clean-up Month. Last September 23, employees of Virginia Farms, which is located in Sitio…
Two of Cebu City Hall’s top garbage-hauling service providers will now be working together to make sure that city streets are free of clutter. Jomara Konstruckt Corp. will haul the city’s garbage for a fee of P1,296…
Cebu City Hall’s private garbage hauler may change, but the mountains of trash inside the private transfer station in Barangay Inayawan still remain. Some Barug Team Rama councilors called a press conference and brought up the problem…
Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña has made good his threat to file cases against officials of the previous administration over the alleged anomalous transaction involving the use of a private landfill in Consolacion town. Osmeña, representing the…
Garganera asks DPS to monitor Pamocor’s operation Garbage at the Inayawan Sanitary Landfill transfer station continues to pile up, making Councilor Joel Garganera suspicious of the kind of service that is being rendered by its hauler Pasajero…
Cebu City’s spending on garbage disposal is now projected to breach the P300 million level before the year ends. The staggering amount will be more than twice the P135 million that was spent by the previous Rama…
Trash to treasure” may be a cliché, but what it signifies is really what is direly needed today. For 20-year-old Fine Arts student Marriel Colaljo a native of Naga City, Cebu, her advocacy of saving the earth…
HONEST TEENS There are still a lot of honest people in the world. A group of teenagers approached members of the media who covered the Good Friday procession in Bantayan town last week to show a red…
Imagine if 4,000 tons of used lead acid batteries (ULABs) were disposed indiscriminately in our waterways over the last 10 years. The lead content in these batteries would have leaked into our rivers and poisoned animals. Worse,…
More than a hundred scuba divers gathered 103 kilograms of trash and 43 coral-eating crown-of-thorns starfish during the “Dive Against Debris” annual underwater cleanup last Saturday at Crimson Resort in Barangay Mactan, Lapu-Lapu City. The program was…
