City Hall to create transfer stations, rent 10 trucks

Cebu City Councilor Eduardo Rama said the Cebu City Waste Management Board may create a transfer station with a Material Recovery Facility in Inayawan  as a stopover of  city-owned garbage trucks before solid waste is  brought to the proposed Consolacion dumpsite.

“With this plan, the city trucks will only drop their garbage at the transfer station/MRF. They don’t need to go through  the hassle of going all the way to Consolacion,” Councilor Rama said.

Rama said that with the plan, garbage would  be segregated in the  transfer station to be put up in barangay Inayawan.

This would lessen the volume of waste to be trucked to  Consolacion.

He said scavengers in the Inayawan landfill would  do the segregation to earn income as well.

Also, with the proposed stations, the small city-owned garbage trucks would no longer have to traverse the narrow and bumpy roads to the Consolacion dumpsite.

The  ten trucks the city government plans to rent will transfer the residual waste to the dumpsite.

“I still can’t give  the exact amount of  how much  we will spend for the plan since it sill has to be presented to the board.  We still have to  decide on it,”  Rama said. /Edison Delos Angeles