OZAMIZ CITY: Senator Loren Legarda said that local government units (LGUs) could create more jobs through the implementation of RA 9003 or the Ecological Solid Waste Management Law.
Legarda, author of the law, cited for example, San Fernando City in Pampanga which was able to generate 200 green jobs, including those employed to manage the materials recovery facilities (MRFs).
They did this by simply implementing the solid waste management law, she stressed.
According to Mother Earth Foundation, all of San Fernando City’s 35 barangays have their own MRFs, where waste materials are sorted for composting and recycling and the residual waste brought to sanitary landfills.
Aside from generating jobs, the city was able to save millions. The LGU used to spend P70-million for solid waste dumped in a sanitary landfill in Tarlac, but now they only spend P7-million for bringing their mostly residual waste to the same landfill, the senator said.
Moreover, waste diversion rate is at 55 percent, which means that instead of being brought to landfills, this much of waste is now either recycled or composted.
If all LGUs implement the law, it would be a cleaner and greener Philippines, more green jobs, and there would be decrease in incidence of environmental diseases, Legarda ended.
Legarda, author of the law, cited for example, San Fernando City in Pampanga which was able to generate 200 green jobs, including those employed to manage the materials recovery facilities (MRFs).
They did this by simply implementing the solid waste management law, she stressed.
According to Mother Earth Foundation, all of San Fernando City’s 35 barangays have their own MRFs, where waste materials are sorted for composting and recycling and the residual waste brought to sanitary landfills.
Aside from generating jobs, the city was able to save millions. The LGU used to spend P70-million for solid waste dumped in a sanitary landfill in Tarlac, but now they only spend P7-million for bringing their mostly residual waste to the same landfill, the senator said.
Moreover, waste diversion rate is at 55 percent, which means that instead of being brought to landfills, this much of waste is now either recycled or composted.
If all LGUs implement the law, it would be a cleaner and greener Philippines, more green jobs, and there would be decrease in incidence of environmental diseases, Legarda ended.