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BY JUN AGUIRRE
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KALIBO, Aklan – This capital town is being compelled to comply with the law on solid waste management.
The National Solid Waste Management Commission (NSWMC) warned the local government to convert its dumpsite into a sanitary landfill, the municipal solid waste management officer Adora Reynaldo said.
Under the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000, local governments must have a sanitary landfill.
Reynaldo claimed they were given only six months to comply.
While the local solid waste management council is drafting mechanics on effective waste segregation, the local government is talking to Manila-based companies on how to deal with increasing garbage.
“We ask the barangays to do their share in proper waste management,” Reynaldo said. “If they fail, village officials may also be penalized.”
Earlier the NSWMC charged the local government unit of Nabas for operating an illegal dumpsite.
Sanitary landfills and open dumps are among the three types of land disposals, the other being controlled dumps, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) said in a module on transitioning from open dumps to landfills.
Open dumps are generally “unplanned” and entail the least cost requirement and thus the most prevalent among the three, the UNEP said.
They are “haphazardly operated,” and have “no controls over waste inputs, either in quantity or composition (or both)” and “over emissions of pollutants released due to waste decomposition,” it said.
Sanitary landfills, on the other hand, have a “planned capacity” and are “designed by cell development,” the UNEP said. They involve “disposal only at designated cells” and have “full leachate and gas management.”/PN
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