The Iloilo City Solid Waste Management Board passed Resolution No. 31, series of 2009 on November 17 by approving a project on on-site composting of market wastes at the different public markets of this city.

Project proponent, Engr. Raul Gallo of the Office of Public Services said the onsite composting is an actual compliance of Republic Act 9003 or the Solid Waste Management Act of 2000 on waste diversion and reduction and Republic Act 9729 or the Climate Change Act of 2009 stabilization of the greenhouse gas concentration and methane gas emission.

Markets are major source of biodegradable wastes that account for some 16 percent of the total waste generation in Iloilo City. The project is expected to reduce the volume of market wastes delivered to the Calajunan dumpsite, Gallo said.

It will also mitigate the cause of climate change by reducing the volume of greenhouse gas emission. Read more »

The German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) has observed and lauded three best practices of the city government here in solving its solid waste management problem.

This was disclosed by Dr. Johannes Paul, team leader of the GTZ-AHT SWM4LGUs support project which rendered technical to the city on its solid waste management program.

Dr. Paul said the city government, in cooperation with the private sector, has one of the best approaches in recycling of garbage starting from the organization of waste pickers, factory of useful products made from recycled garbage, and junkshops organization.

The city has also an comprehensive community-based recycling program that allow usually slum dwellers to gather and sell recycled materials, including the solid waste fair conducted every month in cooperation with a shopping mall here that encourages waste segregation and reuse of recycled materials. Read more »

Policemen at the Regional Office 6 at Camp Delgado have accepted the challenge to make their police facility as an environment-friendly police camp as well as the first police camp outside Metro Manila to have a Material Recovery Facility (MRF).

SSupt. Marietto Valerio, chief of the PRO6 support service staff, exhorted the policemen to comply with the requirement on solid wastes after more than 50 policemen participated in the information, education and communications campaign spearheaded by solid waste specialist Armando Dayrit upon the direction EMB Reg. Dir. Oscar Cabanayan.

The Department of Environment and Natural Resources –Environment Management Bureau (DENR-EMB) is currently going to government offices in Western Visayas to bring the message of proper solid waste disposal management and segregation at source. Read more »

ILOILO CITY – A total of 35 city barangays along the riverbanks and seaside from the municipality of Oton in southern Iloilo up to Leganes in northern Iloilo and passing Iloilo City will be placed under close observation in relation to its clean water condition.

This was announced by city environment and natural resources officer, Engr. Noel Hechanova as the Metro Iloilo Guimaras Development Council’s (MIGEDC) initiative to its commitment in the Local Initiatives for Affordable Wastewater Treatment (LINAW) project funded by the United States Agency International Development (USAID).

Hechanova disclosed that city mayor Jerry P. Treñas is pushing for the LINAW project at the MIGEDC areas composed of Iloilo City, the municipalities of Oton, Leganes, San Miguel, Pavia and Sta Barbara in Iloilo and the island province of Guimaras. Read more »

Mayor Jerry P. Treñas has called on the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and Department of Public Works and Highways (DPHW) to immediately resolve the issue on dredging of the Dungon Creek here and four other creeks that were identified to impede the flow of water.

Treñas said that aside from the Dungon Creek, the other waterways that need immediate attention are the Calajunan Creek in Manduriao district, Ingore Creek in La Paz, Buntatala Creek in Jaro and the Iloilo River.

These are the city’s main waterways and dredging of these creeks and the river will greatly solve the perennial flashflood of the city environs as there is an urgent need to declog the waterways, the city mayor said.

On the other hand, the multi-billion pesos Iloilo floodcontrol project is set to be operational by December this year but will full completion by April 2010. Read more »

The new schedule of the policy on “no segregation, no collection” will start on Friday, October 16 against solid wastes in all 180 barangays in this southern city. The policy will be implemented seriously by the city government backed up by the city’s solid waste management board (SWMB).

This was announced by city mayor Jerry P. Treñas and Engr. Raul Gallo of the General Service Office (GSO) as the new schedule of garbage collection by garbage trucks of JS Layson will take off from 5:00 AM to 7:00 PM in the barangays.

Gallo said no segregation, no collection policy is a vital component of the city government’s battle against mounting garbage and it its desire to reduce the collected garbage at the city’s controlled dumpsite in Calajunan, Mandurrioa district.

Gallo said the program is a vital compliance to the provisions of Republic Act 9003 otherwise known as the Philippine Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000 and as a mitigation scheme on climate change on top of compliance to SP Regulation Ordinance 147. Read more »

CLEAN AND GREEN CHAMPION: Brgy. San Rafael in Mandurriao district, Iloilo City was adjudged grand champion in the citywide 2009 Clean and Green Competition Barangay Category. Brgy. Captain Azucena Tabuyoc received the check facsimile of P500,000 for barangay projects from city mayor Jerry P. Treñas during the awards rites last September 17, 2009 at the Robinsons Place Iloilo. The Read more »

ILOILO CITY – The city government here has embarked on a 10-year integrated solid waste management plan duly approved by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) with the main purpose of addressing the problem on increasing solid waste volume and meeting the requirements of Republic Act 9003.

The city legal office issued this response to a complaint letter submitted by Atty. Frances Shanelle Salinas of the Global Legal Action on Climate Change (GLACC) and Freedom from Debt Coalition dated July 16, 2009 that also “threatened to file legal action against the city government for failing to comply with the law on solid wastes.”

City legal officer Edgardo Gil said the 2005-2015 integrated solid waste management plan was prepared by the Iloilo City solid waste management board (ICSWMB) on November 2005 which defines “the closure of the city’s 9-hectare open dumps, the establishment of a 10-hectare sanitary landfill and a 3-hectare material recovery facility (MRF). Read more »

ILOILO CITY – The “no segregation, no collection” policy against solid wastes in all 180 barangays in this southern city will be implemented seriously by the city government backed up by the city’s solid waste management board starting October 16, 2009.

A new schedule of garbage collection will by then be in place to gather all segregated solid wastes from the barangays from 5:00 AM to 7:00 PM and to allow massive information dissemination to barangay constituents.

This was announced recently by Engr. Raul Gallo of the General Services Office (GSO) after city mayor Jerry P. Treñas and the waste board approved the “no segregation, no collection” program as a vital component of the city government’s battle against mounting garbage.

Gallo said the program is a vital compliance to the provisions of Republic Act 9003 otherwise known as the Philippine Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000 and as a mitigation scheme on climate change on top of compliance to SP Regulation Ordinance 147. Read more »

Waste board readies “no segregation, no collection” program

ILOILO CITY – The city’s solid waste management board is set to implement the “no segregation, no collection” program as a vital component of the city government’s battle against garbage and compliance to the provisions of Republic Act 9003 otherwise known as the Philippine Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000 and mitigation scheme on climate change.

Board Resolution No. 31, Series of 2009 was passed recently by adopting, promulgating and strictly enforcing a “No Segregation, No Collection” policy in the city of Iloilo and enjoining all sectors, households and communities here to exercise proper waste segregation and reduction at source.

City mayor and board chairman Jerry P. Treñas said the innovative program will be implemented in all 180 city barangays starting October 16, 2009 after consultations with all barangay captains and Liga ng mga Barangay officials. Read more »