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City eye additional MRFs in barangays

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The City Government of Dumaguete through its Environment and Natural Resources Office appeals for the barangays to establish their own Materials Recovery Facilities with the possibility of funding their construction to ensure a more sustainable Solid Waste Management program.

Mayor Felipe Antonio Remollo has already started the implementation of the Safe Closure and Rehabilitation Plan of the Candau-ay dumpsite as approved by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources.

The central MRF where residual wastes (dili mapuslan) will be brought from the barangay MRFs is nearing completion. This even as the City Government is also preparing for the construction and establishment of a sanitary landfill now under review by the DENR.

At present, 5 barangays are operating their own MRFs namely Junob, Piapi, Bantayan, Calindagan and Looc. An additional two more barangays, Candau-ay and Camanjac, already have MRFs that will soon be operational.

Smaller barangays with no spare lands to construct the MRFs might be clustered for common use facility. Functional MRFs can greatly help reduce solid wastes generated by the communities and may even provide income to waste pickers collectors hired by the barangays.

Republic Act 9003 or the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2003 mandates all barangays to enforce the directive for residents to segregate their trash and into practice the principles of Reduce, Reuse and Recycle in solid waste management.

The MRF is the designated place in a barangay where all the garbage collected will be sorted manually or mechanically into recyclables, organic wastes and non-recyclable or residual wastes.

And while the city is in the process of closing down the Candau-ay dumpsite permanently, ENRO vows to intensify its campaign so that more barangays will operate their own MRFs. (PIO)

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