Sunday, December 09, 2007 Waste mgmt back on track as brgy leadership normalizes
WASTE segregation efforts in the city barangays have gone back on track with the installation of new barangay officials.
City Environment and Parks Management Officer-in-Charge Colleene Lacsamana said the level of compliance of the barangays to the city’s waste segregation policy has improved anew after the new set of barangay leaders assumed their posts last December 1.
The level of compliance with the segregation policy suffered a slump right after the barangay elections when confusion arose on who between the old and new sets of leaders has the authority to rule the barangays.
Lacsamana said now that the smoke has cleared, segregation efforts have been revived with 65 percent of the barangays now complying with the policy.
Lacsamana added the city government is planning to hold a reorientation program on solid waste management system for the new barangay leaders.
During the re-training, they expect to reiterate the city’s "no segregation, no collection" policy.
Lacsamana said they also aim to organize the solid management committees at the barangay level and to finalize routing scheme of garbage collection on a cluster basis. (Aileen Refuerzo)
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