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==Balanga City uses passbook to save enviroment== | |||
*Source: http://www.pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?menu=2&webregion=R03&article=1951336115976 | |||
*By: Jose Mari Garcia | |||
*''Saturday, May 05, 2012'' | |||
CITY OF BALANGA, Bataan- In this city, passbooks are not only used to save money, but also to help save the environment. | |||
Under the Junk Shop ng Bayan Project of the city government, public schools in Balanga use customized passbooks to keep track of plastic garbage they each one has collected. | |||
The accumulated trash of schools will be picked by a truck and the points saved in their passbook may be used to claim rice rewards, said Annie Tuazon, consultant on solid waste management of the City Environment and Natural Resources Office (CENRO). | |||
“If you have collected three kilos of dry and clean plastic, you will be rewarded with a kilo of rice. You could then accumulate the points to get more rice,” Tuazon said. | |||
According to CENRO, Balanga City, the capital and economic center of Bataan, is producing 20 to 25 tons of varied garbage everyday, which is equivalent to 9,100 tons yearly. | |||
With the city’s population of about 90,000 which is projected to balloon in years, proper and sustainable solid waste management is critical as to not fill up the dumpsite in Brgy. Munting Batangas, said CENRO head Nelia Castor. | |||
Therefore, CENRO has been piloting environmental projects including the Junk Shop ng Bayan, Gamit Pang-eskwela Mula sa Basura, Operation Linis Ilog and Linis Barangay, and the production of doy bags from tetra packs. | |||
Castor said the garbage truck circulates the city every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. The schools also may call their office whenever they have amassed plastics. | |||
Meanwhile, small plastics like those from snack food will be brought to the Material Recovery Facility in Brgy. Munting Batangas where they will be macerated. | |||
Tuazon said that since small plastics are strenuous to be sewn as doy bags, they will be put through a pulverizer funded by the Department of Science and Technology to be grinded and mixed into the production of paper tiles. | |||
==Balanga City bats for zero illiteracy rate== | ==Balanga City bats for zero illiteracy rate== | ||
*Source: http://pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?menu=2&webregion=R03&article=1951335927897 | *Source: http://pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?menu=2&webregion=R03&article=1951335927897 | ||