Cebu City board: Garbage abundant in coastal barangays

A HUGE amount of waste in Cebu City’s coastal areas were sighted by the city’s Coastline Management Board (CMB) during their third quarter clean-up drive.

Pedro Cuizon, head of CMB showed a video presentation of garbages floating in seawaters and scattering in seashores along the city’s coastal barangays.

“Ang basura padulong gyud sa (garbage will go to) the lowland areas (during a downpour),” said Cuizon.

These lowland areas include barangays Mabolo, Tejero, Carreta, Tinago, San Roque, Sto. Niño, Ermita, Suba, Pasil, Sawang Calero, Duljo-Fatima, Mambaling, Basak San Nicolas, Kinasang-an, Cogon-Pardo and Inayawan.

Cuizon said the percentage of garbage varies on the size of the barangay. “Kon dako ang barangay daghan sad ang basura (If the barangay is big, the amount of garbage is also high,” said Cuizon.

Cuizon said their clean-up activities involve the participation of city hall employees, students, organized groups and city’s scholars.

He said CMB is currently conducting an information dissemination campaign on the enforcement of No Segregation No Collection policy, recycling and clean-up drives.

CMB conducted their third quarter coastal cleanup last June 20 and another cleanup will be held on Sept. 22.

The next coastal cleanup will be held on the fourth quarter of this year.

Cuizon encouraged the barangays the implement the “No Segregation, No Collection Policy.”

“The problem here are the individuals who do not properly dispose their garbage,” Cuizon said. /Correspondent Tweeny M. Malinao