Baquioen, Sual adapts SWAPP waste scheme
BARANGAY Baquioen in Sual has joined the Solid Waste Management Association of the Philippines (SWAPP) and is adapting the organization’s schemes in handling the community’s trash.
The municipal government of Sual has extended support to the initiative by providing a new “tricycle patrol” for the barangay, which is now being used to collect garbage.
At the barangay level, residents are mandated to segregate their wastes at home and place them in allocated stations where barangay tanods collect them for disposal to the municipality’s system.
SWAPP, which operates nationwide, was particularly interested in Sual given its diverse topography of coastal areas to landmasses.
Sual hosts a coal-fired power plant and an international shipping port is currently being built there.
SWAPP, established on May 2000, is a non-profit organization composed of waste management experts from local government units (LGUs), national agencies, private sector, non-government organization, and the academe.
It helps in the capacity-building of LGUs, communities, and private sector for solid waste management in their respective areas through trainings, technical assistance, research, information exchange, and network building.–Mark Gil de la Cruz
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