Responding to the city’s recent failed solid waste management inspection, Bacolod City Vice Mayor El Cid Familiaran urged barangay officials to take the lead on the matter. “We have to call the attention of our barangay officials to implement solid waste management,” he said. Familiaran explained the barangay would be a big help since the source of waste comes from individual households. He said, in order for the implementation to be successful, we need the cooperation of our barangay officials to discipline the community in their respective areas. Every barangay is also supposed to have an annual allocation for solid waste management, or programs in their own barangay. “We must have a partnership with them,” the vice mayor added. “I hope the Mayor will also conduct a meeting for this.” Familiaran mentioned there is a problem in the pick-up of garbage in barangays. “Our compliance started when we constructed the sanitary landfill, however, we failed in the implementation,” he added. “After we have complied, we did not use it properly, thus we made it an open dump site.” Familiaran further reminded that the implementation of solid waste management is part of Republic Act 9003, or the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000, which states a government entity must “set guidelines and targets for solid waste avoidance and volume reduction through source reduction and waste minimization measures.” A notice of violation has already been issued to the city by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources. The agency has, likewise, called for a technical conference with the city’s Solid Waste Management Board./WDJ Watchmen Daily Journal By Nicole Surriga, Intern
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