Five eco wardens sent to new public market

MANDAUE City’s eco wardens will be assigned to implement and educate vendors of the proper way to segregate garbage at the new Mandaue City Public market.

Placido Jerusalem, head of the Mandaue City environmental enforcement team, said he assigned the five  eco wardens there after a vendor was caught indiscriminately throwing unsegregated garbage in the new market.

The Ecological and Solid Waste Management Ordinance” prohibits the “throwing, dumping, discharging, pouring out, unloading, spilling out waste, refuse or garbage whether solid or liquid in vacant lots, yards, roads, streets, canals, rivers, creeks, underground drainage system and other public places. Violators will be fined P500.

Meanwhile, ambulant sidewalk vendors in the old Mandaue City public market are playing a hide and seek game with the demolition team, who cleared the sidewalks in barangay Centro of the vendors on Friday.

Rosalina Bergado, fish vendor,  said she was ready to play hide-and-seek with the demolition team rather than pay rent for a stall at the new public market.

Vegetable vendor Casundo Cresencia, 68, agreed with Bergado. She said she only have a small business and that’s why she never rented a stall in the old market. /Correspondent Norman V. Mendoza