Solons OK 10-year SWMP

Cagayan De Oro City – Cagayan de Oro City now has a ten-year Solid Waste Management Plan.

The City Council headed by Vice Mayor Raineir Joaquin V. Uy enacted Ordinance No. 13130-2016, approving the 2014-2024 Solid Waste Management Plan, as endorsed by the City Solid Waste Management Board.

According to the CSWMB, this is in line with Section 166 of Republic Act 9003, otherwise known as the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000, which provides that the city shall prepare the plan to ensure the efficient management of solid waste with emphasis on the reuse, recycling and composting program with landfill identification for residual waste.

The SWM aims to provide efficient and sustainable system that ensures the protection of public health and environment, significantly reduce the amount of generated solid waste requiring disposal through increased source reduction, reuse, recycling, composting and adoption of resource recovery technologies and manage the solid waste with adequate disposal capacity in an equitable and environmentally protective manner, consistent with the statutory solid waste hierarchy.

It also aims to build community awareness and encourage greater stakeholder’s participation of the need to minimize the generation of waste and disposable practices as well as adopt stable and long-term funding mechanisms that provide sufficient revenue SWM programs, while producing incentives for increased waste reduction and diversion.

OBJECTIVES

In the 10-year SWM plan, the city hopes to have 90-percent diversions by the end of 2014, to establish Material Recovery Facility (MRF) in 40 barangays by the end of 2018.

The plan includes the establishment and operation of a sanitary landfill this year. The city will also strengthen capacity and participation among concerned SWM stakeholders both in public and private sector and promote accountability, transparency and participation, among others.

STRATEGIES

Under the plan, the city will adopt strategies such as waste reduction at source, increase garbage collection efficiency, maximize resource recovery, implement cost-effective and appropriate final disposal facility and increase linkages and promote community participation.

The SWM plan was favorably endorsed by the committees on environment and natural resources and on laws and rules chaired by Councilors Zaldy Ocon and Ian Mark Nacaya, respectively. (SP)