Urdaneta offers to help Dagupan
ONLY SEGREGATED WASTES
THE Urdaneta City government expressed willingness to help Dagupan City with its waste management problem and out of its dilemma since the Department of Environment and Natural Resources issued a cease and desist order to the Dagupan City government over the continued use of the latter’s open dumpsite.
Mayor Bobom Perez said, the city government is willing to accommodate the solid wastes from Dagupan at its sanitary landfill, but only if the wastes are segregated.
“We can’t afford to keep on accepting any and all wastes because once it’s filled to the brim, where will we bring our own garbage?” Perez asked.
The 80-hectare sanitary landfill in Barangay Catablan was built in 2010 through a P220 million loan from Landbank of the Philippines to solve the worsening waste disposal of the city at the time.
It was built to accommodate only the wastes of Urdaneta City.
The city government started to accommodate the solid wastes from other towns including towns in Nueva Ecija and Benguet, when a private company offered the city an opportunity to operate a plant to produce methane gas from the wastes.
“Many offered but not a single project proposal materialized,” Perez said.
Presently, the city’s sanitary landfill is receiving 70 tons of wastes daily from the city and 16 towns in Pangasinan.
The 16 towns are presently paying the Urdaneta City government P900 per ton of segregated wastes.
Baguio City was allowed earlier to bring its wastes to the landfill but was subsequently stopped when it failed to continuously segregate the solid wastes being brought to the landfill.
Baguio has since been delivering its wastes to Capas, Tarlac.
“Urdaneta lang ang may sanitary landfill, at Urdaneta lang ang nakatugon sa hinihingi ng batas na nakasaad sa R.A 9003, hindi yan dumpsite at hindi lahat ng basura ay pwede, kaya very strict kami sa segregation policy. We are also strictly implementing “no segregation, no collection policy dito sa City, kaso problema pa rin ang disiplina, kapag nakita na ang aming garbage truck, hagis na lang sila nang hagis, dapat from the household mag-umpisa ang disiplina ng segregation, but the problem is umulan lang nakalimutan na ang segregation, Perez added. (Nora Dominguez)
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