Dumping of Garbage Resume in City’s Dumpsite

Baguio City – The city’s dump facility has returned to normal operation after a consultation meeting was held right in front of the closed gate of the dumping area yesterday, July 19, 2008. The city government, represented by its city administrator has won the hearts and minds of the protesting residents of which both party have agreed to allow garbage trucks to unload tons of garbage left uncollected for five days.

The verbal agreement is only good for one week just to ease the city of eyesore brought by stinking garbage littered around the city. This temporary solution was recommended to the affected residents based on the promises made by the city administrator that they will address the problem discreetly and with urgency.

Hopefully, this time the city government will come up with a comprehensive and long term solution to finally close the dumpsite issue once and for all. It can be recalled that past and present elected officials have broken their promises for how many times. They were remiss in their sworn duties and responsibilities to manage the city’s garbage problem.

Millions of pesos were allocated for the implementation of R.A.9003 or the Comprehensive Solid Waste Management Act of 2000. But not a single development could be seen at the dump facility. They constructed a composting plant inside the dumping area but became a white elephant. Its usefulness is a woeful 30%-40% operational capacity. This is a common situation in a third world country like the Philippines.