FOLLOWING the success of the tree planting activity during the Agew na Dagupan on June 20, Dagupan Mayor Belen Fernandez is scheduling another greening program at the Bonuan dumpsite in Octobe for its early conversion into an eco-park and fun site with a football field.

She said that by October, the remaining 15% uncleared portion of the dumpsite under Phase 1 would have already been cleared, flattened, and covered with layers of soil, and ready to be planted with acacia, Narra, and coconut seedlings.

“We are putting loam soil because we want all the trees that we have planted to live and grow into adult trees,” she said in a press conference after the inauguration of the new set of Dagupan City officials last June 28.

The planned football field within the 4.5-hectare site was sought by some of the 1,500 youth who joined the June 20 tree planting event.

Fernandez admitted, however, that a big challenge is how to totally close the dumpsite by the end of the year given the current limited capacity of the Urdaneta City sanitary landfill, where the cleared wastes as well as daily garbage collections are being delivered.

She said she rejected the call of a few barangay captains to reopen the Bonuan dumpsite for a few days to accommodate part of the waste they are generating daily.

Instead, she ordered the waste management division to pick up the waste from the barangays and directly bring these to the sanitary landfill in Urdaneta.

At the same time, Fernandez announced that four barangays of Dagupan have been designated as pilot areas for waste segregation. These are Bonuan Gueset, Pantal, Malued and Lucao.

The non-recyclable wastes, such as plastics and biomass, are brought directly to the Holcim plant in Bulacan to be used as fuel in the manufacture of cement and as a component of cement itself, while the rest of the wastes are consigned to the Urdaneta landfill. (Leonardo Micua) 

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