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BY MAE SINGUAY
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Monday, January 2, 2017
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BACOLOD City – Some residents do not follow the schedule for putting out garbage to be collected by the city government contractor. They must be punished, a department head said.
They are violating Republic Act 9003, or the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act, stressed Nelson Sedillo of the Department of Public Services (DPS).
The DPS received reports that some locals put out their garbage to be collected by the IPM Construction and Development Corp. after the supposed schedule.
IPM’s garbage trucks make rounds in the metro on varying schedules.
In light of this, Sedillo asked Mayor Evelio Leonardia to activate a Composite Enforcement Team that will run after such residents.
Comprising personnel from the DPS, the City Legal Office and the Bacolod City Police Office, the team shall apprehend violators of the solid waste management law, particularly Chapter 4, Section 48, paragraph 1 (Prohibited Acts).
Under this provision, littering, throwing or dumping of waste in public places such as roads, sidewalks, canals, esteros, or parks are prohibited.
Erring individuals and establishments causing or permitting the violation must be sanctioned, Sedillo stressed.
Personnel under the Composite Enforcement Team will be detailed to monitor the streets 24/7 for garbage that are dumped late, said Sedillo.
Earlier the IPM had been a subject of complaints for its alleged failure to diligently collect garbage across the city.
The company cited the “backlog” of uncollected garbage left by the previous contractor and their management of paleros, or collectors, as factors.
But the IPM’s performance “tremendously improved” after the first two months of operation, the DPS said.
“Their additional support vehicles and equipment, consisting of 16 dump trucks and 10 steel container bins, [provided] in the last week of October helped a lot in their performance,” Sedillo said.
Perennial tambakan, or dumping sites, are being regularly cleaned up, he said.
“While minimal complaints are still being reported, these concerns are acted upon immediately because the contractor has provided two standby trucks for quick response operation,” said Sedillo.
City hall hired the IPM for a P59.4-million environmental sanitary service contract from Sept. 2 to Dec. 31 last year.
But it extended the contract to two more months — from Jan. 2 to March 1 this year — citing the need for ample time to hold another bidding for environmental sanitary services./PN
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