Osmeña sues Rama, BAC for use of Consolacion landfill

Inna Gian Mejia, Jose Santino S. Bunachita 08/25/2017

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…

Mountain of trash

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 08/10/2017

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…

TRASH DISPOSAL COST TO RISE TO P300M IN CEBU CITY

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 05/16/2017

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…

From plastic trash to plastic bag

Morexette Erram 05/01/2017

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…

MAO BA?

Inquirer, Inquirer.net 04/21/2017

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…

Trash to cash for a cause Motolite, PBSP mark 10th year of recycling program

PR 03/28/2017

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,…

underwater cleanup Scuba divers retrieve 100 kilograms of trash

Norman V. Mendoza 02/17/2017

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…

The garbage swap

Inna Mejia 01/31/2017

Turn your garbage into gold, or in this case, turn it into a can of sardines. Agapita “Pita” Eking, a 54-year-old mother of six, received a pleasant surprise from the city’s garbage collectors yesterday when they handed…

Village execs: We’re doing our share to collect trash

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 01/25/2017

Officials of Barangay Kamputhaw in Cebu City refuted the allegations raised by Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña about the uncollected garbage in their area. Kamputhaw Barangay Chairman Trifonio Lequigan Jr. said the photos of uncollected garbage along…

Anti-littering law of Mandaue to be strictly imposed

Dominic D. Yasay 01/24/2017

BUSINESS establishments in Mandaue City are warned not to indiscriminately dump their trash outside their buildings and along the streets, or they would be fined or even possibly lose their business permits. Araceli Barlam, City Environment and…

Garbage woes reported in Mactan

Norman V. Mendoza 01/07/2017

Residents of Barangay Mactan, Lapu-Lapu City have complained against the foul smell of garbage emanating from a private lot used by the city to dump tons of trash. The lot, owned by Maviche Hauling Services, sits beside…

Sustainable solution

Editorial 12/27/2016

It must have grated Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña’s nerves to have to appear in a City Council session like any other common resource person to explain his budget for garbage collection and disposal to the council…

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