EMB showcases notable SWM projects in NorMin

• Source:http://news.pia.gov.ph/article/view/1471467188001/emb-showcases-notable-swm-projects-in-normin
• Thursday, June 30, 2016

(JCV/PIA 10)

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (PIA) – Northern Mindanao’s finest experts in solid waste management shared their innovations and notable strategies to various partners and members of the Northern Mindanao Ecology Center (NMEC) and the Cagayan de Oro River Basin and Adjacent Rivers Water Quality Management Area (CDOBAR-WQMA) Governing Board in Cagayan de Oro City on June 29.

Practitioners from the academe, local government unit, and commercial establishment namely Xavier University, Gingoog City local government unit (LGU) and SWM consultant Engr. Sin del Jamorol graced the learning event which also highlighted the environment month culmination activities.

In his opening message, Department of Environment and Natural Resources-Environment and Management Bureau (DENR-EMB) acting officer in-charge, lawyer Abbas I. Lao said the event seeks to capacitate the members, especially the local government units, highlighting that to date, only 37 percent of the LGUs nationwide have complied with the guidelines set by Republic Act 9003 or the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act.

The EMB, he said, has already filed its first 50 administrative cases for the non-compliant local governments at the Ombudsman, and two of these cases are from Northern Mindanao.

Regional SWM Chief Dovee Cherry Geollegue said only 10 LGUs in region 10 have established and operated a Sanitary Landfill and 36 percent or 737 barangays have materials recovery facility.