DAVAO CITY— Did you know that each resident of Davao City generates 50 kilos of trash per day?
With a population of 1.9 million, the city government is collecting 700 to 800 tons of trash per day.
Even with the construction of a 9-hectare sanitary landfill to complement the 7-hectare dump in Barangay New Carmen, city officials are worried that a garbage crisis looms in the next few years.
“As of the present we are collecting 700 to 800 tons per day which are not segregated and if we do not practice segregation and if we open the new landfill it will just be up to five years,” Maribel Alberca, information and education campaign assistant, at the Davao City Environment and Natural Resources Office (CENRO) warned.
She said Dabawenyos must practice waste segregation and the city’s barangays must have proper solid waste management programs to lessen the amount of garbage in the landfill.
The city government has allocated P340 million for the landfill’s expansion and an additional P219 million is forthcoming to complete the project. (PIA/RGA)
