The Queen City stinks
Cebu City’s so-called transfer station stinks while garbage collectors cannot collect household garbage on schedule
That the City of Naga, Cebu is the only local government unit in the region with an approved 10-year Solid Waste Management (SWM) plan is not surprising because its elected officials are one for the city’s improvement and development.
The National Solid Waste Management Commission (NSWMC) approved the city’s SWM on Oct. 22, 2010 but the notice was only sent to the city on Dec. 3, 2015. That’s how inefficient national offices are.
Former mayor Val Chiong, whose successor is his daughter Christine, and the city council was able to plan and implemented its SWM in partnership with a private entity, FDRCon, Inc.
Naga, some time in 2010, inked a 25-year service agreement with FDRCon for the collection and disposal of garbage with the use of a resource recovery facility it established in 2009 in Barangay Langtad.
Seven years later, FDRCon established its waste-to-energy biogas plant under the FDR-IRRM company. It can generate power of 360 KVA. It’s a successful public-private partnership story.
The moral lesson, or you may call it political lesson, that the other LGUs like Cebu City could learn from the City of Naga is unity in purpose among elected officials. In other words, public interest first over personal intentions.
Cebu City’s so-called transfer station stinks while garbage collectors cannot collect household garbage on schedule. Worse, garbage contractor Pamocor does not have its own landfill.
ARN Builders, Inc. on its own built a landfill in Barangay Binaliw. Councilor Joel Garganera is blocking the project that won’t even harm the city government or anyone but instead benefits from it.
For the city’s benefit, Garganera, instead of harassing the developer, could have extended assistance so it could provide the landfill for Cebu City in compliance with RA 9003.
According to my source, Garganera suspects that Mayor Tomas Osmeña partly owns the project, hence the vibrant opposition to it. Never mind if the Queen City of the South turns into the Queen City that smells garbage.