Laoag Mayor Michael M. Keon meets all the city’s barangay chairpersons in two batches as he wants to strictly implement the city’s solid waste management program with the new sanitary landfill’s opening. (Doms dela Cruz)
By Dominic B. dela Cruz (Staff Reporter)
Laoag City—The city
government here again reiterated its desire to fully and strictly implement its
solid waste management program, with a focus in waste segregation.
In a bid to achieve this, Laoag Mayor Michael M. Keon met with
all of the city’s barangay chairpersons to tell them to prepare for the closure
of the controlled dumpsite at Brgy. Lagui-Sail and the subsequent opening and
operation of the new sanitary landfill at Brgy. Balatong.
During the said meetings, which occurred in two batches, Keon
said that since the city’s rural barangays have plenty of vacant lots, the
barangay chiefs there could create communal compost pits.
He also learned from the barangay heads that waste segregation at
the source is not fully implemented; as a result, stray animals usually scavenge
for food from them. To remedy this, he said the City Veterinary Office should
have an animal impounding area to collect stray animals.
He also learned that, the city’s residents also sometimes dump
their garbage a long barangay roads and thoroughfares, and even along
irrigation canals that would usually cause clogging.
After the meeting, Keon said the city’s barangay heads promised
to help in the strict implementation of the Ecological Solid Waste Management
Act in their respective barangays.
He, however, accepted the fact that barangay officials cannot do
this alone without the cooperation of their barangay constituents.
Some barangay chairpersons suggested the use of additional CCTV
systems in their barangays to closely monitor who is dumping unsegregated
wastes so they can go after them with fines and other penalties.
The first-term mayor also announced that they will enforce the
“no waste segregation, no collection”, as the new landfill can only accommodate
residual wastes.
Keon, meanwhile, solicited the help of all the city’s residents
to be more disciplined and help in the implementation of the waste management
program.
“Masapol tayo ti agtitinnulong kadaytoy a ganwat tapnu
masalakniban tayo ti aglaw-lawken ken tapnu mamentenar tayo iti kinadalus iti
bukod tayo a barangay ken iti sibubukel a siyudad iti Laoag”, Keon appealed.
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