ANGELES CITY – Garbage bugs had better watch out in this city.
Starting March 1, marshals will be deployed in strategic areas to swoop down on those throwing just about anywhere their cigarette butts and other forms of litter, while those who fail to segregate household wastes will have to bear with their rot.
“There will be sanctions imposed on violators,” Mayor Edgardo Pamintuan told local media in his monthly “kapihan” with them, nothing that he himself has been roaming the city to confront violators. The sanctions have yet to be announced.
Pamintuan said business establishments, including small vendors, will face closure of their businesses should they persist in littering in their areas. He noted that all barangays have already been warned about this. The city produces about 100 metric tons of garbage daily. About 65 percent of local wastes are reusable and another 15 percent are classifi ed as “residual.”
The city government has eight garbage trucks collecting garbage three to four times a day. By March 1, they would ignore unsegregated garbage.
