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Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Waste ordinance approved
THE City Council approved on final reading the Solid Waste Management ordinance.
The approval came amid the deadlock on the implementation of the required reforms in the solid waste management program of the city.
Authored by Councilors Erdolfo Balajadia, Edilberto Tenefrancia, and Jose Molintas, the ordinance provides regulations on the proper segregation and collection of household wastes in residential houses and commercial establishments in the city in line with the provisions of Republic Act (RA) 9003 or the National Ecological Solid Waste Management Act.
Under the approved measure, residents will be required to separate their garbage into three containers: one for all scrap paper, plastic, metals, glass and plastic bottles; second, for animal and garden wastes; and third, for other waste like disposable sanitary napkins and diapers, toy and flashlight batteries, upholstery, pentel and ballpen, polystyrene (styrofoam), paint and thinner cans, doy pack, hazardous household waste such as dressings and bandages, expired medicines, shoes and slippers, mats rags and others.
The waste will be collected on a designated day; the first type to be collected by government trucks painted green every Saturday and will be sold to factories or junkshops after collection; the second will be collected by red-painted trucks every Monday, Wednesday and Friday and converted into compost; and the third will be collected by blue trucks on days to be designated by barangays, the City Environment and Parks Management Office (Cepmo) and hauled to hydromex machines to be installed by the city.
Unusable rubber tire will be collected once or twice a month to be palletized by the government and mixed with asphalt for road paving.
Schools, shopping malls, markets and business establishments will also be required to separate their waste in the same manner but collection of their waste will be made either by the government or by the environment cooperatives with their organic market and slaughterhouse waste to be converted into methane gas in biogas digesters.
Agricultural areas will also separate their garbage and convert their organic waste into compose in their areas while industrial areas will separate their waste into toxic and non-toxic to be done either by government or environment cooperatives. Factories will be required to contact industrial waste to exchange their waste with others who may be able to use these.
Hospitals and clinics will treat their contaminated waste in their respective autoclaves. Under no circumstance will contaminated waste be collected either by government or environment cooperatives.
Violators will be penalized with P500 for first offense; P2,000 or 30 days imprisonment for the second offense; and P5,000 and six months imprisonment for the third offense.
(May 16, 2006 issue)
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