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BORACAY – Malay mayor Ciceron Cawaling on Monday said Boracay’s garbage problem is “totally contained” as they were able to meet the deadline to clean up their centralized materials recovery facility (MRF).
The deadline was set by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) which ordered the town to haul the stockpile of garbage after complaints of foul odor from the MRF was reported and for possible violation of the Republic Act No. 9003 or the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000.
Cawaling said the local government was able to haul about 4,500 cubic meters of garbage in Manoc-manoc village to the four-hectare sanitary landfill in Barangay Kabulihan in mainland Malay for less than a month.
Cawaling said the recently hauled stockpile of garbage was accumulation of waste for the past six months.
The mayor attributed the success of the activity to the help of the hauler’s association of the town which offered their services for free.
Provincial Environment and Natural Resources officer Ivene Reyes challenged the town to continue organizing its solid waste management program.
Reyes said the DENR will help fast track the transfer of the additional four-hectare land area for the extension of the Malay sanitary landfill.
Cawaling said the additional area will be a big help on its solid waste management program.
The mayor said the 10-year solid waste management plan of the town is underway.
He said the Asian Development Bank granted a P230 million for the solid waste management program of Malay.
“It will be released in 2018,” he added. (PNA)
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