Kalinga culminates Environment Month celeb with 'junks fair'

Climate Change

By Geraldine G. Dumallig

Wednesday 27th of June 2012

TABUK CITY, Kalinga, June 27 (PIA) -- How much for my junk?

As the culmination in the celebration of Environment Month, the public was enjoined to bring their junk, scraps, and recyclables to the Recyclable Collection Event tomorrow, Thursday, at the city People's Gym where junk shop owners and entrepreneurs will be buying waste materials.

The city government of Tabuk in partnership with the Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Office (PENRO) and the Environment and Natural Resources (ENRO) would be hosting the event’s culminating activities at the City Hall compound.

The line up of activities according to PENRO officer Severino Dalutag includes a short program to be followed by the Recyclable Collection Event, Environmental Exhibit, and Environmental Forum.

To add fun, participants get a raffle ticket for every P10 worth of scrap materials sold.

Said activity intends to make the public appreciate the use of recyclable materials instead of just throwing it away for garbage trucks to collect. If this is observed, the city he said, would have lesser volume of garbage to manage.

For the schools, an environmental exhibit competition dubbed as “Global Warming and Climate Change: Is it Real?” will be held to encourage students creatively express their concept on the impact of climate change through photos, news clippings, environmental quotations. Participants, according to Dalutag, will display their materials in stalls.

The participants from the secondary and tertiary schools level will answer specific questions through their creative artworks. Questions include: 1. What is global warming and climate change?; 2. Is it real? What are the Impacts and Effects? What does the United Nations say in the assessment report?; 3. What is the concerned sectors doing for the people to adapt and mitigate global warming and climate change?; 4. What can an individual do, personally, at home, in school, in office, to adapt and mitigate and climate change?

There will also be an environmental forum for barangay captains, ENROs, Municipal Planning and Development Councils, women organizations, teachers, government employees, private sector, and other stakeholders.

There will be an orientation on global warming and climate change and the public-participants will be briefed on how they can help reduce the effects of climate change.

In this year’s Environment Month celebration, DENR has posed “Green Economy: Does it include you?” as a theme to “encourage more action among the people.” (JDP/GGD-PIA CAR, Kalinga)