Bejo promotes proper waste management in the City

By ROGER TILANA, KIMRO
April 11, 2006

TACLOBAN CITY, Leyte  –  The City Government of Tacloban and the Private Garbage Collector - Gyanendra Management Corporation, lauded the 4 pioneering barangays of the City that have initiated proper waste segregation, and left only their residual wastes for collection. This was the result gathered after four days since the start of the implementation of the “No segregation, no collection of garbage,” last April 1.

These barangays and their commendable chairpersons are as follows: Brgy. 64-A, Sagkahan, Bliss - Hon. Telesforo “Roy” Chua; Brgy. 82, Villa Dolina, Marasbaras - Hon. Rustico Medina; Brgy. 78, Alande Subdivision, Marasbaras - Hon. Eugenio Babon; Brgy. 85, Sogod, San Jose - Hon. Joseph Agero.

Meanwhile, City Mayor Alfredo “Bejo” Romualdez has directed the City Environment and Natural Resources Office, the City General Services Office and the Kanhuraw Information and Media Relations Office, together with the Private Garbage Collector to create a monitoring team that will conduct a continuous and intensive information dissemination drive regarding the Ecological Solid Waste Management Law particularly on Waste Segregation at source, on barangays that need special assistance on its implementation.

According to Engr. Sammy, Gyanendra Corporate Liason, “Right now, we are on a dry run period for fourteen days, meaning there are some areas where we still collect unsegregated garbage but we give them warning that by April 15, we will be only collecting the residual wastes as mandated by the law.” Under (Sec.49 ( c ) RA 9003, the collection of unsegregated waste will be penalized “with a fine of not less than One thousand pesos (P1,000.00) but not more than Three thousand pesos (P3,000.00) or imprisonment of not less than fifteen (15) days but not more than six (6) months, or both.”

On a meeting last April 4, Mayor Romualdez also ordered the monitoring team to, “focus information drive particularly at the grass roots level, until the time they will be able to practice proper solid waste management,” he stressed.