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January 28, 2018
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BACOLOD City – San Carlos City’s neighboring towns Calatrava and Toboso inked a memorandum of agreement (MOA) with the city government allowing them to use the city’s sanitary landfill for dumping residual wastes.
San Carlos City mayor Gerardo Valmayor Jr. led the signing with Calatrava mayor Araceli Somosa and Toboso mayor Richard Jaojoco.
According to Somosa, Calatrava entered into the contract pending its purchase of a lot to be used as waste disposal site.
Meanwhile, Jaojoco said Toboso is barely capable of establishing its own waste facility for now, thus, the renewed contract.
The tipping fee as specified in the MOA costs P1,000 per ton of residual waste.
In 2017, San Carlos City Environment Management Office (CEMO) noted that Calatrava dumped some 23 tons of residual waste while Toboso generated four tons.
Engineer Arthur Batomalaque, head of the Integrated Waste Management/Pollution Control Division of CEMO, said only 6.27 tons of 19 tons of San Carlos’ daily residual waste go to the landfill due to waste segregation in the city.
With this, the city’s landfill can still accommodate the waste of neighboring areas.
Batomalaque added that “San Carlos City Eco-Center has three cells with a capacity of 215,615.30 cubic meter or an estimated 37,732 tons per cell which could last up to 20 years.”
Republic Act 9003, or the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000, prohibits the use of open dump sites for solid waste which is hazardous to the environment. (PIA/PN)
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