TACLOBAN CITY – Clustering of municipalities is among the options in constructing a sanitary landfill, according to Department of the Interior and Local Government Regional Director Francisco Jose in the weekly press forum “Express it at the Park.”
Having a sanitary landfill for every local government unit is mandated by Republic Act 9003, otherwise known as the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act.
Failure to comply said mandate would mean that concerned local government units would be meted with appropriate charges.
With clustering, Jose stressed that it would mean lower cost for the construction of a sanitary landfil.
Sanitary landfill construction, based on estimate, would cost from P20 million to P50 million.
In the region, the first clustered towns on sanitary landfill construction were the municipalities of Anahawan, San Juan and Saint Bernard,all in Southern Leyte, through the assistance of the German International Cooperation.
Aside from clustering, another option for an LGU who cannot comply with the construction of a sanitary landfill would be putting up a Material Recovery Facility or MRF, according to the Environmental Management Bureau.
Other options would be by asking help from foreign funded organizations like the German International Cooperation and JICA, which had helped the cities of Calbayog, Ormoc and Maasin and the three municipalities in Southern Leyte in constructing their sanitary landfills and some municipalities in the region like Tunga, Leyte, which opted to put up an MRF.
Moreover, to lessen the burden in allocating fund for constructing a sanitary landfill, the EMB stressed that the LGU can construct their sanitary landfill on a phase-to-phase basis.
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