WHAT caught my attention browsing in the current news was the plan of Mayor Sara Duterte to build a scientifically constructed dump site to dispose the solid wastes of the city. This is badly needed by the city. We see how after every big event in the city, the spectators leave garbage materials filling several garbage trucks to dispose these in any dump sites inside the city. Scavengers crowd these areas which have germs and animals as mice and insects. All are in disarray.
This will be a thing of the past after the dump site planned by the mayor is constructed. This dump site will follow all the legal steps in constructing. To start with, this is intended for all the residual garbage after the citizens of the city had done the preliminary 3 R'S -- Refuse, Recycle, and Reuse.
The experts of construction are hired to build this city dump site. The proper place is selected. It must be acres of grasslands, uninhabited by man, flat terrain, far away from sources of potable water or ground water levels near the surface. The diggings start. The main shape is a huge hollowed up ground, cemented all around with stone blocks. No pests may enter this. No leachate may seep through it. Leachate is the juicy residue of untreated garbage. The garbage trucks filled with the remains after the 3R'S were done will empty the garbage soil in the site. This layer is compacted and covered with soft soil layer with substances to condition the soil below it. This process is repeated until it is filled up. This is covered to prevent rats, mice, and insects from penetrating the dump site. This soil may be reused as fertilizers and carried to places where it is needed. There are no pollutants as methane gas, carbon dioxide, and other fossil fuel gases are used.
Now, I go back to the 3R'S methodology. Solid wastes segregation must start in every home. They may separate biodegradable from non- biogradable wastes; wet from dry; sellable to junkyards; and treatable as fertilizers in their own garden pits where all kitchen wastes, left over foods are treated.
The dry non-biogradegradables are sold to junk stores or you can donate specific items to convents or women's groups who reuse and create new useful materials which they can sell. Right now, I have two sackfuls of these to be reused for Christmas decorations.
Post me in my FB timeline if you are interested. Plastics, papers, cardboards, used wrappers of gifts, bottles, plastic or glass; boxes, used colorful clothes can be recycled. The perennial problem of wastes disposal happens in the slum areas. These have to be attended to by the health agencies of the government.
Lastly, it is heartening to see the city Mayor keeping a close watch on law breakers concerning pollution in the streets, the smoke-belchers. There is close watch on smokers in restricted areas. With these spirited drives to follow the laws, the best is yet to come in a disciplined city and its progressive advances.
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