ANGELES CITY- Fed up with spending P100 million yearly to dispose of its garbage, Mayor Edgardo Pamintuan held up his whip: segragate or rot. Folk in this city started last Saturday to segregate their wastes after garbage dump trucks refused to gather mixed garbage amid Pamintuan’s program to bring down the city government’s annual garbage disposal cost to only 21 percent.
The city has been disposing of its 218 tons of wastes daily at the German- technology landfi ll in Barangay Kalangitan in Capas, Tarlac. But city environmental chief Francisco Punzalan said about 67 percent of the city’s waste are biodegradable and could be used for manufacturing compost or for recycling into animal feeds.
“Only about 21 percent are residual wastes that could be diverted to the landfill,” he noted. Punzalan said the city’s daytime population of about 500,000, on top of business establishments, produce about 218 tons of garbage.
If the biodegradable wastes are recycled or buried by composting by the sources themselves, the city would reduce its P100 million expenditures for disposal by as much as 80 percent, he added.
