100 sacks of garbage retrieved
MORE than 100 sacks of garbage were retrieved from the coastal area of barangay Pajo below the old Mandaue-Mactan bridge.
MORE than 100 sacks of garbage were retrieved from the coastal area of barangay Pajo below the old Mandaue-Mactan bridge.
THE Provincial Board (PB) approved a resolution inviting the Environmental Management Bureau in Central Visayas (EMB-7) to shed light on the Korean Electric Power Corp. (Kepco) coal plant’s operations in next week’s session.
Mining firms operating in the Cordillera have begun reviewing their waste-management facilities, including the designs of their tailings dams, in the aftermath of the tailings pond leak at the Benguet facility of Philex Mining Corp. in August.
Some barangay captains defended Lapu-Lapu City Mayor Paz Radaza from accusations by a businessman-critic that she failed to resolve the city’s garbage problem.
Members of a newly created task force will start going after litterbugs in the flood-prone City of Malabon starting Monday.
Starting June 30, retail establishments inside the free port will be prohibited from using plastic bags and Styrofoam as packaging materials.
The Supreme Court has issued a “writ of kalikasan” (writ of nature) in favor of residents opposed to the conversion of a coastal area in Obando, Bulacan, into a landfill for garbage from Metro Manila which they warned could set off an “environmental catastrophe.’’
ABOUT 113 tons of garbage were collected from this year’s Sinulog celebration, which is slightly lower than last year’s nearly 100 tons of trash.
Cebu City will have an option where to dump its garbage when a privately run materials recovery facility in Naga City becomes fully operational in the next three months, said lawyer Jade Ponce, chairman of the city’s Solid Waste Management Board (SWMB).
The Department of Health (DOH) on Sunday ordered the closer monitoring of waste disposal by hospitals in Metro Manila.
The city government has yet to finish clearing the garbage that littered a mountainside community on Asin Road here and villages in neighboring Tuba, Benguet, after its decommissioned dump in Barangay (village) Irisan collapsed during a storm on August 27.
LAPU-LAPU City will hold its yearly fluvial procession in honor of the Virgin of the Rule on November 12, 2011, the first day of the novena in honor of the patron saint.
Starting next month, barangay (village) leaders will collect P20 garbage fees from 301,926 residents to help improve a solid waste management system that has been blamed for a fatal trash slide in August. Fresh from working out a garbage segregation scheme, Mayor Mauricio Domogan deputized the local leaders to collect the garbage fees from every [...]
