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Invest in solid waste management facilities
« on: July 24, 2009, 03:11:06 PM »
President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has urged some 175 municipal mayors from Mindanao to invest in solid waste management facilities, using their Internal Revenue Allotments (IRA).

At the Mindanao leg of the "Zero Basura" Caravan in Davao City, about 175 municipal mayors from Regions XI, XII and the Autonomous Region for Muslim Mindanao likewise made a commitment to close down all existing open dumps in their area as part of compliance to the Republic Act 9003 otherwise known as the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act.

The Zero Basura Caravan, a joint project of the League of Municipalities of the Philippines (LMP), the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and the National Solid Waste Management Commission (NSWMC), is part of the Green Movement Agenda: Strategies for Local Action which aims to accelerate the provisions of RA 9003.

The President exhorted the local government units (LGUs) to invest in material recovery facilities or MRFs in their barangays urging them to use their Internal Revenue Allotment to fund these facilities; the program aims to reduce waste generation by as much as 50 percent.

NSWMC Executive Director Gerardo Calderon, said that the mayors in attendance also drew a plan which includes the immediate phase out of open dumpsites and converting them to sanitary landfills and then to ecological parks. As of the second quarter of 2009 there are 901 open dumpsites across the country as compared to 936 dumpsites in the 4th quarter of 2008.

He added that many LGUs are investing in modern landfills and converting some of into eco-parks. Davao City for one, has invested in a P216-million modern sanitary landfill which is the first in Mindanao. It has a 3.8 hectare, 46-meter pit lined with high-density polypropylene liners that will prevent leachates from seeping underground.

Calderon, who is also a DENR Assistant Secretary, explained that the facility also has retention ponds for leachates, plus drainage canals and ponds which will prevent seepage of waste materials to adjoining waterways. The landfill is designed to handle residual wastes or trash that can no longer be recycled or reused.

Calderon also cited Santo Tomas municipality in Davao del Norte, which has established its own eco-park. The eco-park, it was learned, was formerly a controlled dumpsite turned into a processing center where trash is recycled and converted into compost or other reusable materials. The former dumpsite is now a lush green picnic ground frequented by tourists and visitors.

The need to minimize garbage is borne out of the growing concern on climate change as methane which is the by-product of decomposing garbage is a greenhouse gas which has a warming potential 20 times greater than Carbon Dioxide.

According to President Arroyo, the Philippines is part of the growing international solidarity on climate change. She sounded off the warning that a 2 percent increase in global temperatures would endanger low-lying coastlines and islets of the archipelago. (PNA).

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