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…

Cebu City to ask CA to allow use of Inayawan landfill

Morexette Erram 12/23/2016

The Cebu City government will file a petition asking the Court of Appeals (CA) to allow the use of the Inayawan landfill at Barangay Inayawan, Cebu City as a temporary dumping site until the administration can find…

Giving Osmeña the benefit of the doubt on the garbage problem

Atty. Ruphil F. Bañoc 12/22/2016

In fairness to Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña, he also has his valid and practical reasons for making the South Road Properties (SRP) the temporary transfer station of the mountainous garbage of the city. Last Tuesday, I…

Trashion Evolution

Apple Ta-as 12/07/2016

TRASH transformed into haute couture pieces, set in an imaginary dystopian world took centerstage at the Aboitiz Green Fashion Revolution. Now on its fifth year, the competition has been challenging students in Cebu-based schools to create trashion…

PUNISH TRASH VIOLATORS

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 10/05/2016

Cebu City ends leniency on those who fail to segregate Mounds of stinking garbage are reported in many Cebu City barangays, and when the rain pours, rivers of floodwater rise in the metropolis, at times carrying the…

Cebu City owes Consolacion private landfill owner, haulers

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 09/08/2016

Cebu City Hall still owes the owner of the private landfill in Consolacion as well as private haulers for services rendered earlier this year. According to Cebu City Councilor Margarita Osmeña, who had a brief stint as…

Maximizing the landfill

Editorial 08/11/2016

A two-part report in Cebu Daily News on the state of Cebu City’s garbage problem showed three factors that contributed to its current condition: lack of trucks and personnel, lack of discipline in implementing a genuine waste…

Where Cebu City’s wastes go

08/02/2016

Inayawan landfill reopened as city gives waste segregation another go Conclusion Amid challenges of lack of garbage trucks and unpaid salaries of some garbage collectors, the new administration of the Cebu City government started fully implementing the…

‘NO SEGREGATION, NO COLLECTION’

Nestle L. Semilla 06/29/2016

A notice to Cebu City residents: if you do not segregate your garbage, it will not be collected. Cebu City Acting Mayor Margot Osmeña made the strict enforcement of the city’s existing “no segregation, no collection” policy…

Scavengers find hope in trash

05/17/2016

“ANG basura sa uban, among panginabuhian (Other people’s trash, is our source of livelihood).” Eduarda Morales, 43, a scavenger, underscored that there is really money in trash. Morales, from Barangay Umapad, Mandaue City, is one of the…

Trash haulers asked to extend service

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 05/06/2015

Cebu City Hall will ask the management of the private landfill in Consolacion town and the private haulers operating a garbage transfer station in the city’s southern barangays to continue receiving the city’s garbage even without payment.…

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