Jail’s waste facility overworked, not broken

Izobelle T. Pulgo 01/19/2017

THE wastewater facility isn’t broken, it’s just not operating to capacity, said the acting warden of the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC). Dr. Gil Macato, acting warden, said budget constraints and the overpopulation of inmates…

Turning waste into creative artworks

01/19/2017

The Aboitiz Foundation successfully held its first ever “gARTbage Ville Mixed Media Art Competition” last December 17 at the University of the Philippines – Cebu campus. The activity is named gARTbage with emphasis on the word ‘art’…

EMB TO JAILS: Stop dumping wastewater into Langub Creek

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 01/11/2017

THE Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) 7 asked the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC) and Cebu City Jail to cease discharging its wastewater into the Langub Creek in Barangay Kalunasan, Cebu City. EMB-7 also recommended that…

SRP expected to be clear of garbage next week

Morexette Erram 01/07/2017

HEAVY equipment and dump trucks were immediately deployed by Jomara Konstruckt Corp. to the transfer station at the South Road Projects (SRP) in order to clear the area of garbage left there after the lapse of the…

Council meets to approve urgent funds for garbage

Inna Mejia, Jose Santino S. Bunachita 01/03/2017

In order to haul the remaining garbage from the temporary transfer station at the South Road Properties (SRP) to a final dumping site, the Cebu City government is proposing another emergency procurement. The City Council is expected…

Cebu City garbage: Nowhere to go but SRP

Morexette Erram 12/31/2016

It’s the New Year and the day that the South Road Properties is supposed to have been cleared of all the tons of garbage that were dumped on a one-hectare lot behind the headquarters of Cebu City’s…

The plastic ban ordinance

Dominic D. Yasay 12/31/2016

(PART 1) Saving Mandaue City from floods and garbage It has been four months since the Mandaue City government decided to bring back the muscle of the city-wide prohibition of plastic bags in a bid to address the city’s…

Hauling of SRP garbage resumes

Jose Santino S. Bunachita, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag, Morexette Erram 12/29/2016

HAULING of Cebu City’s garbage dumped at a lot in the South Road Properties (SRP) resumed yesterday with the arrival of the heavy equipment and dump trucks of Jomara Konstruckt Corporation, which the city contracted to bring…

SRP: DUMPSITE NO MORE?

Morexette Erram 12/27/2016

City starts taking garbage out of South Road Properties. But the hauling fee is higher than what was paid during the Rama administration, says Councilor Joel Garganera Here’s one good news: The tons of trash that have…

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…

WHAT’S IN A NAME?

John Carlo Villaruel, Jose Santino S. Bunachita, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 12/19/2016

A dumpsite by any other name would still smell as awful. Cebu City continues to dump garbage at the SRP lot It’s been three days since Cebu City started dumping its garbage, averaging 500 tons per day,…

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