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How to boost compliance with garbage segregation? Antiporda knows a way

Published March 9, 2021, 12:52 PM If Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Usec. Benny Antiporda would have his way, he would like to get help from local government units (LGUs) in enforcing the 20-year-old garbage segregation law. Antiporda, alternate chair of the National Solid Waste Management Commission, made the call for efficient and effective handling of solid waste during a dialogue with Cavite’s provincial, city, and municipal environment officers, the DENR bared in a statement Tuesday, March 9. “Propose to your local council to create an ordinance that will act on those who do not practice segregation in their barangays,” he told the local officials.

DENR shutters Pangasinan sanitary landfill

March 7, 2021 | 7:50 pm Font Size PHILSTAR THE Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has closed an 18,000-square meter sanitary landfill in Urdaneta City, Pangasinan on Friday, after the facility failed to address its violations within the deadline set for it. In a statement issued over the weekend, the DENR said that its Region 1 Director Maria Dorica Naz-Hipe and local environment officials served the cease-and-desist order (CDO) on the sanitary landfill in Barangay Catablan. In January, the Urdaneta landfill received two CDOs for violating the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act and the Philippine Clean Water Act. The landfill had until February to improve its facilities by “adding a water treatment facility, siphoning garbage seepage and identifying a new ideal cell, among others,” DENR Solid Waste Management and Local Government Units Concerns Benny D. Antiporda said.

Urdaneta City landfill ordered shut down as DENR intensifies crackdown on dumpsites

Published March 6, 2021, 8:41 PM Authorities have shut down a sanitary landfill in Urdaneta City in Pangasinan, the latest on the intensified crackdown on dumpsites violating environmental laws. Although not an open dumpsite, a sanitary landfill facility in Barangay Catablan, Urdaneta City was ordered closed due to environmental violations, according to Maria Dorica Naz-Hipe, director of the Environmental Management Bureau-Region 1 of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR). The 18,000-square meter sanitary landfill facility (SLF) was shut down after two cease and desist orders (CDO) were issued by the Urdaneta City Engineered Sanitary Landfill on March 5. “Sanitary landfill facilities causing environmental hazards are not spared from the government’s open dumpsite crackdown nationwide,” the DENR said in a statement.

23 LGUs still operate open dumpsites in Central Visayas despite DENR order

23 LGUs still operate open dumpsites in Central Visayas despite DENR order
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