STARTING Monday, all garbage trucks entering the 14-hectare landfill in Rodriguez, Rizal, must each pay on the spot about P1,000 in levies and hosting fees to the municipal government.

?This is a fair and just system of compensation for a municipality and its residents who are hosting the landfill and bearing with the social, health and other adverse costs for being the dumping ground for Metro Manila?s solid waste,? Rodriguez Mayor Pedro Cuerpo said in a statement yesterday.

The implementation of what Cuerpo called the ?Pay as you discharge? pre-payment scheme coincides with the Rodriguez government?s formal takeover of the landfill after the original private contractor agreed to turn over the facility to the municipality.

The new mode of payment, however, is expected to result in problems because at present, local governments using the landfill course their payment through the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority.

The facility used to be managed by the International Solid Waste Integrated Management Services Inc. which earlier made an ?offer of rescission,? effectively revoking its landfill management contract with the local government.