A shocking footage captured by a concerned citizen in Bacolod City showing a man dumping a sack of trash straight into the river in Barangay Singcang.
“We’ve reached out to both the city and barangay officials and somehow there was never a response,” the uploader of the Facebook clip said to the Philippine Star.
Last April this year, Bacolod has implemented the waste segregation policy or “no segregation, no collection”. The “no segregation, no collection” policy is mandated by Republic Act 9003, or the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000.
With the implementation of the “no segregation, no collection” policy, the city’s garbage contractor will only collect what is classified as residual waste such as sanitary napkins, disposal diapers, used/worn out rags, ceramics, Styropor, soiled tissue paper, cigarette butts, rubber and other solid materials that cannot be composted or recycled.
Compostable waste such as left-over food, and fruit and vegetable peelings will remain in the household while recyclables like bottles, glass, plastic bottles, papers, metal, tin cans, and wrapper sachets will be gathered by the barangay.
Bacolod generates close to 500 tons of garbage per day, based on the data of the Solid Waste Management Board (SWMB).
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