Post-election cleanup of Metro Manila begins
By Jamie Marie Elona
The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) started Wednesday a massive cleanup to remove campaign materials that littered Metro Manila during the campaign period.
The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) started Wednesday a massive cleanup to remove campaign materials that littered Metro Manila during the campaign period.
The Quezon City government is teaming up with EcoWaste Coalition in ensuring “clean” elections.
On the weekend before Election Day, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources made a last-minute appeal to the candidates and the voters to observe a litter-free midterm election.
A task force has been created to serve as watchdog against litterbugs during the elections. The Commission on Elections, the Departments of Environment and Natural Resources, and the Interior and Local Government have joined forces to keep track of political parties, candidates and their supporters who violate waste management laws and improperly dispose of election materials.
Is it possible to find hope in a sea of stinking trash? The journey might not have been easy, but Fr. Benigno Beltran says he indeed found hope in Smokey Mountain and this helped him cope throughout his three-decade stay as parish priest in the once sprawling dump in Tondo, Manila.
Boys shout in delight as they flip backwards off a bridge. Fishermen quietly cast rods out. They are joyful acts that should belong to an earlier era, before the Pasig River turned toxic.
On Friday afternoons, teachers of Umapad Elementary School in Mandaue City notice that some of their pupils are “missing.”
Saying they do not want their town to be known as the “garbage town of Central and Northern Luzon,” residents of Cuyapo in Nueva Ecija have petitioned their town government to turn down a landfill project.
Keep the feast holy—and garbage-free. An environmental watchdog on Friday appealed to the millions of devotees expected to join the annual procession of the image of the Black Nazarene of Quiapo to avoid turning their route into one long garbage dump.
Segregated wastes from Baguio City would soon be dumped in a government-run landfill in Urdaneta City for a fee and under strict regulations, but the Urdaneta government said it did not play any role in negotiating with the summer capital.
The country’s plastics could face death sooner than later as more and more local government units outlaw the use of plastic bags and polystyrene foam materials in the retail of food items, an industry association official said here Thursday.
The city government of Urdaneta on Wednesday belied reports that it has allowed Baguio City to dump its garbage at its engineered sanitary landfill (ESL) in Barangay Catablan.
It’s still messy and stinky, but the numbers are encouraging. The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority on Saturday noted a marked reduction in the volume of garbage collected from various cemeteries in the capital after All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day.
