An obvious but often ignored reminder urging Manileños not to litter.
Garbage temporarily dumped in front of a public park and children's playground in Pedro Gil St. Photo taken on 2 January 2018.
Reacting to Manila Mayor Joseph “Erap” Estrada’s latest appeal to Manileños to mind their garbage, the EcoWaste Coalition urged the local government to strictly enforce the city's ordinances for a cleaner environment.
Garbage temporarily dumped in front of a public park and children's playground in Pedro Gil St. Photo taken on 2 January 2018.
Trash piles up along Pedro Gil St. near Taft Ave. Photo taken on 3 February 2018.
Reacting to Manila Mayor Joseph “Erap” Estrada’s latest appeal to Manileños to mind their garbage, the EcoWaste Coalition urged the local government to strictly enforce the city's ordinances for a cleaner environment.
Last Thursday, Estrada appealed anew to Manila’s 1.8 million residents to
reduce their trash generation estimated at more than 2,000 tons per day with a
big portion of the wasted ending up in the streets, drainage pipes and
waterways as reported by the city’s Department of Public Services.
“Mayor Erap has repeatedly sought public cooperation to address Manila’s
monstrous garbage problem, and his appeal seems to fall on deaf ears,” stated
Aileen Lucero, National Coordinator, EcoWaste Coalition.
“Despite putting up the signage ‘kung hindi mo kayang linisin ang kapaligiran,
huwag mo na lang dumihan’ all over the city, Manila continues to be plagued by
litter and trash,” she said.
“Perhaps it’s high time for the city government to try a different tack in order
to clean up the capital city,” she suggested.
Manila will not start from scratch, the EcoWaste Coalition emphasized.
“Relevant city ordinances already exist and should be actively enforced.
And good practices in ecological solid waste management at various levels and
settings, we believe, are on hand waiting to be recognized, supported and
replicated,” Lucero said.
“While it’s important to implement the anti-littering ordinance issued in 1994,
Manila should fully enforce the plastic bag ban ordinance approved in 2012, and
the encompassing Environmental Code that Erap himself signed in 2014,” she
said.
City Ordinance 8371 provides for the Environmental Code that aims to protect
the city’s environment from further degradation and promote sustainable development
with strong participation from stakeholders.
In line with Estrada’s 10-point agenda that includes “cleanliness,” the
EcoWaste Coalition urged the city to realize its plan to “establish an
effective solid waste management system.”
“If holistically and seriously implemented with nonstop public information and
education, the planned system can help a lot in preventing and reducing
garbage, while creating waste-related jobs and enterprises,” Lucero said.
With a big number of informal waste workers living and working in Manila, the
EcoWaste Coalition also urged the city authorities to look at how this thriving
sector can be integrated into the system.
“The inclusion of the informal waste sector into the system can yield a lot of
benefits, especially in promoting secured employment, decent livelihood and
access to social services among waste pickers and recyclers, and in improving
their working environment, which can be very hazardous and toxic,” Lucero
added.
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