BAGUIO CITY – City officials recently urged barangay officials in the city to consider identifying an area in their respective areas of jurisdiction to serve as a communal compost pit for their constituents.
Under Resolution No. 528, series of 2024, local legislators stated that barangay officials in the city’s one hundred twenty eight barangays may look for a suitable location for a communal compost pit in their respective areas of jurisdiction that will cater to their constituents need to dispose their biodegradable waste generated in the households.
The council claimed that biodegradable waste is allegedly no longer collected by the City General services office and the residents are being encouraged to compost their biodegradable garbage in their respective homes.
However, the body pointed out that many residents do not have enough space to compose the biodegradable waste although they had been trained by concerned government agencies and the local government on how to compost their biodegradable waste.
The council added that the lack of space in their respective homes results in a major predicament as there are no spaces that are available for the composting of the biodegradable waste that have been generated which needs the active involvement of the barangays by identifying the appropriate spaces where such waste could be composted anew.
At present, the local government currently hauls out the generated residual waste from the barangays to the Capas engineered sanitary landfill in Tarlac because of the absence of appropriate disposal facility where the same could be disposed of by the city.
Earlier, the local government had been constantly reminding the residents to segregate their generated waste so that the biodegradable garbage could be composted.
Republic Act (RA) 9003 or the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act mandates all local governments to close the operation of their respective open dumpsites and replace the same with controlled upon facilities or sanitary landfills whichever would be feasible for the health and safety of their residents and the protection of the environment. By Dexter A. See
