THE City Government of Bacolod has ordered the IPM-Construction and Development Corporation (IPM-CDC) to settle all the backlog in garbage collection in various barangays of the city until Saturday, November 19.

City Administrator Atty. Pacifico Maghari III said yesterday, November 17, that they are monitoring the garbage collection of the IPM-CDC, the city’s garbage hauler, every day to ensure that all uncollected garbage will be picked up by their trucks.

Maghari said the garbage collection of the IPM-CDC was delayed since November 13, 2022 because of the poor condition of the road towards the city’s sanitary landfill in Barangay Felisa.

The IPM-CDC should have at least east 137 trips a day to address all the backlog, he added.

Maghari noted that the repair of the road already started last Saturday, November 12.

“It’s our target that by Saturday, the IPM-CDC already collected all the backlog in various barangays,” Maghari said.

Assistant City Engineer Ephraem Hechanova said earlier that they already installed boulders along the road leading to the landfill so that the dump trucks could pass through.

“We have an existing project with an estimated cost of P10 million for the concreting of the road too,” Hechanova noted, adding that it was temporarily halted.

This, after the original owner claimed that the city has consumed the portion of the land which is not part of what he has sold, he said.

“While the repair and concreting of the road is ongoing, dump trucks will passed through the road that we use before going to the old city dumpsite,” Hechanova said.

Moreover, Maghari also warned residents, especially in subdivisions, of hiring of pedicab or tricycle drivers to illegally dump their garbage in various areas of the city.

The violators will be fined P2,000 to P2, 500 for violation of City Ordinance No. 531 or the Anti-Littering Ordinance, and City Ordinance 596 or the ordinance prohibiting the indiscriminate dumping and throwing of garbage and other kind of waste in public places of Bacolod.*