Garbage haulers told: Manage waste properly

Traffic unit issued citation tickets to 6 private garbage trucks

THE Mandaue City Government asked private garbage haulers to properly manage the waste they are transporting to prevent these from spilling on the roads in the city.

The Traffic Enforcement Agency of Mandaue (Team) recently issued environmental citation tickets to six private garbage trucks that were transporting waste from Lapu-Lapu City to Consolacion town.

Glenn Antigua, Team chief for operations, said that the garbage and the waste liquid spilled from the trucks when these passed by United Nations Ave. The waste also emitted a foul smell.

“Atong gibuhat ato sya’ng gi-issuehan og ticket. Atong gipabalik sa Lapu-Lapu. Atong gi-advisan wala man ta magdili nila pero ang ato lang nga limpyo ine’g agi nila (We issued environmental citation tickets to the six trucks. We directed them to go back to LapuLapu. We told them that we are not prohibiting them to pass the roads of Mandaue, but they should properly manage their wastes during transportation),” said Antigua.

Last month, Lapu-Lapu City Mayor Paz Radaza said that the City Government contracted a new hauler, JJ and J Hauler, to deliver their garbage to Consolacion town.

The mayor said that the previous contractor was affected by the truck ban in Mandaue and the long distance it has to travel to dump the residual waste to the City of Naga.

Residual waste

Adelino Padilla, chief of City Environment and Natural Resources Office, said that Lapu-Lapu disposes an average of 50 tons of residual waste daily.

The Mandaue City Government has been seriously enforcing the Solid Waste Management Act.

Antigua said that the garbage haulers can pass anytime in Mandaue, except during truck ban hours, if they properly covered the trucks loaded with garbage and they secured the necessary permits to transfer waste from the Department of Environment and Natural Resources.

The truck ban in Mandaue is from 6-8 a.m. and 5-8 p.m.

The Team said that it has not apprehended garbage trucks from Cebu City.

Mandaue Vice Mayor Carlo Fortuna said local government units and the garbage haulers that will pass the City roads regularly to dump garbage to Consolacion have to sit down with them considering that traffic congestion has been the problem in the city.