Yes, the biggest problem Cebu City faces today is uncollected garbage made worse by the closure by the Department of Environment (DENR) of the Cebu City Sanitary Landfill. This has never happened to Cebu in the past. More than 20 years ago, I was the chairman of the Infrastructure and Utilities Committee (IUC) of the Regional Development Council (RDC-IUC-7) and at that time, Cebu City needed a place to dump its garbage. With the help of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) we constructed the Cebu City Sanitary Landfill. But this had a shelf life of only 20 years. Somehow it has been extended, but in the end, the DENR decided to shut it down last November with Cebu City totally unprepared to tackle this problem.
This week, the Cebu City Council had to call for a special session to come up with a new contract for a private company to haul the city’s garbage out of Cebu City. But for most part of this week, Cebu City residents have been plagued by uncollected garbage where most residents place them on the sidewalks or streets in the most unsanitary way. Unless he fixed the garbage problem soon, Mayor Tomas Osmeña would get the ire of his constituents. Hopefully this week we shall see a solution to this problem.
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