The time has finally come to squarely face the garbage issue in Dumaguete.
It had to take a dramatic arrest of 10 garbage collectors and drivers of the City for everyone to come to their senses, and end the business-as-usual mindset in dealing with the garbage problem.
Now, we read about appeals to the public to undertake a serious trash segregation drive.
If we remember it correctly, the garbage issue is actually a barangay concern.
Barangays are supposed to have their respective Materials Recovery Facility which would go a long way in reducing waste brought to the City dumpsite in barangay Candau-ay.
We have yet to hear of a feasible program in any of Dumaguete’s barangays to reduce waste. (If there is, we’d love to see it and feature it here.)
We have taken note of the efforts of the City to find alternative solutions to the garbage problem by scouting for a new dumpsite within the City, and sometimes going even farther south and north, to no avail.
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Of course, nobody likes to live beside or within smelling distance of a garbage dump. And it only smells because biodegradable garbage decays.
We are not supposed to throw biodegradable garbage at the City dump in the first place.
Rather, we should dig a hole in our respective yards, and bury dried leaves, leftover food, and other stuff that rots away so they become part of the soil.
Garbage is not just a City problem — it is everyone’s problem; it is our problem. We all have a stake in this issue, and we should all not just limit our task to throwing garbage away (wherever “away” is) but we have a duty to be responsible for our own garbage that we generate.
So before we buy anything, let us think first of what will happen to the packaging (plastic container, bottle, aluminum can, or box) that comes with the product.
Yes, garbage is real. And we can definitely do something about it in our own little ways.
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