LGU Malay Complies Environmental Laws

BY BOY RYAN ZABAL

Group planting, a combination of several ornamental plants is good for the eyes and soul and to the environment.

Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Office (PENRO) Aklan officer Baltazar Gerardo revealed the local government of Malay is complying with the environmental laws in the transport of residual wastes in mainland Panay".
Gerardo made the assurance following the periodic monitoring of the National Solid Waste Management Commission (NSWMC) led by Under-secretary Zoilo Andin, Jr of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR).
"The local government is complying with the requirements for the efficient transport of residual wastes of Brgy. Yapak and Manoc-Manoc," he stressed.
Gerardo said, Engr. Arnold Solano of the Municipal Solid Waste Management Board reassured him that the truckloads of residual wastes in three barangays, the bulk of which at Brgy. Balabag, are being transported within the month across Boracay Island to a dumpsite in Brgy. Kabulihan in mainland Malay.
The administration of Mayor Ceciron Cawaling is serious in implementing the law on the Ecological Solid Waste Management, Gerardo added.
"We are appealing to local and foreign tourists visiting the island to segregate their garbage to minimize the waste problem," Gerardo said.
Some 7 to 10 tons of garbage a day are produced and collected by garbage trucks from establishments and residential houses in the island.
Residual wastes are segregated in materials recovery facility (MRF) and transported by motorized pump boats before they are transferred to dump trucks in Brgy. Caticlan.
Gerardo also lauded the efforts of Forester Delilah Maugeri based in Boracay Island and Task Force Bantay Boracay led by Senior Supt. Benigno Durana, Jr. for their massive information dissemination in the implementation of waste segregation and compliance to environmental laws by hotel owners. /MP