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Union of Local Authorities of the Philippines (ULAP) president Dax Cua called on the government to create a task force including local government units to address the country’s mounting waste problem. This, after the Commission on Audit found that only 29.25 percent or 478 of 1,634 LGUs in the country have access to sanitary landfills. […]
The citizens of Bacolod City can now access online and monitor garbage trucks on route collecting wastes after IPM-CDC commenced their test run on its GPS on main roads of Bacolod City in response to Mayor Albee Benitez’s urge for responsive waste collection. “The public themselves would be able to monitor the movement of garbage […]
Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) Chairman Benhur Abalos personally supervised the agency’s cleanup operations at Manila Bay, as an influx of trash was swept into the bay due to heavy rains in the past days brought by southwest monsoon. At least 70 personnel from MMDA Metro Parkways Clearing Group were deployed to clean Manila Bay. […]
Government will clear the banks of Manila Bay’s tributaries and “esteros” to facilitate the collection of garbage and to improve water quality. Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Secretary Roy Cimatu said there is a need to remove structures encroaching on the easement so trash collectors can easily access and gather garbage in and […]
The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) has collected around 47 truckloads of garbage left by devotees during the “Traslacion” of the Black Nazarene, an agency official said. “Forty-seven truckloads of garbage hauled during the ‘Traslacion’ of the Black Nazarene equivalent to 564 cubic meters or 160 tons,” MMDA spokesperson Celine Pialago said. The MMDA deployed […]
Tourism Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat said her department will be making frequent “surprise visits” to El Nido in Palawan to ensure the municipal government will seriously implement sustainable tourism policies. “I will come back here very often, it will be a surprise, it will be unannounced,” Romulo-Puyat said. The tourism chief, who was in El Nido […]