swmo – CITY OF NAGA

Environmental responsibility sa pyesta pigtutulod

CEPPIO Naga — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 08:30:33 +0000

PASADO sa Sangguniang Panlungsod an resolusyon ni City Councilor Ghiel Rosales na nagmamawot na pangarogan an lokal na gobyerno, Archdiocese of Caceres, business sector asin civil society groups sa environmental responsibility sa Peñafrancia fiesta.

Segun ki Rosales, chairman kan Committee on Environment and Energy kan Sanggunian, maninigo na magin pangarogan an syudad sa reduction kan single use na plastic decorations, food packaging asin disposable plastic cups, spoons and forks sa paagi kan pagpangalad sa paggamit nin mga nasambit na produkto na may maraot na epekto sa kapalibutan.

Pigtawan-doon ni Rosales na sobra sa doble an dakol kan basura sa syudad na nakolektar kan Solid Waste Management Office kada pyesta kumpara sa mga ordinaryong aldaw.

Piglalaoman na mag-abot sa estimated number na 200 sagkod 250 tonelada nin basura an mahahakot kan nasambit na opisina sa mga aldaw kan pigtalaan an civic and religious events katakod kan pyesta.

(Paulo Delos Santos, CEPPIO. Retrato hale sa SWMO.)

200 tons nin basura sa Naga kada aldaw sa selebrasyon kan pyesta

CEPPIO Naga — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 07:00:18 +0000

PIGPOPOONAN nang bilogon kan Solid Waste Management Office an mga estudyanteng volunteers asin pag-iriba sa Informal Waste Sector bilang parte kan pag-andam para sa marikas asin lagduan na pagponpon nin basurang dara kan mga darakulang events kan Peñafrancia fiesta.

Pigkakarkulong maabot sa 200 hangan 250 tons na basura an kaipuhan na tiponon kan SWMO sa aldaw lang nin traslacion procession.

Kun ordinaryong aldaw, an SWMO nakakakolekta nin 94.23 tonelada nin basura. Sa nasambit na numero, 61.62 tons an recyclable materials mantang 32.61 tons an pigdedeklarang residual waste na minadalagan sa sanitary landfill.

Sinabi ni Engr. Joel Martin, pamayo kan SWMO, an 200-250 tons nin basura iyo man an makokolekta kada aldaw pagkatapos kan mga darakulang events, siring kan: military parade, fluvial procession, civic parade, asin iba pang civic and religious activities sa panahon kan pyesta. Laen pa kaiyan an mga basurang dara kan mga transient vendors.

Alagad, sinabi ni Martin na igwang sobra sa 450 na mga volunteer-students hali sa mga eskwelahan asin myembros kan Informal Waste Sector an madamay sainda sa pagtipon asin pagdispatsa nin mga basurang yaon sa mga tinampo na lalagan nin mga dugang na basurahan.

Pigpasalamatan ni Martin an mga eskwelahan kan UNC, CBSUA, Mariners Polytechnic Colleges, USI, AdeNU asin Naga College Foundation huli kan saindang pakikisumaro na maibosol tolos an kalinigan kan syudad pagkatapos sana kan selebrasyon.

(Jason B. Neola, CEPPIO)

Hanapbuhay sa basura para sa myembros kan informal waste sector

CEPPIO Naga — Fri, 05 Aug 2022 02:00:29 +0000

Orog na papakusogon pa kan gobyerno lokal kan syudad nin Naga an waste diversion program o an pagpakinabang liwat kan mga basura na pigpapaotob kan Solid Waste Management Office (SWMO).

An programa igwa nin duwang katuyuhan, enot, an pagtao nin hanapbuhay sa mga miyembros kan informal waste sector (IWS), asin an ikaduwa, tanganing mabawasan an volume kan basura na pig aapon sa sanitary landfill para sa halawig pang serbisyo kaini.

Kabali sa mga basurang pigre-recycle iyo an mga tarpaulins, mga tela na gikan sa mga ukay-ukay, asin mga plastic. Pigsaysay ni Richard Luna, acting property officer kan SWMO, partner kan saiyang opisina sa waste diversion an Market Enterprise and Promotions Office/Naga City People’s Mall na kun saen pigpapabakal an mga produkto na gikan sa basura arog kan shoulder bags, eco-bags, pot holders, door mats, asin mga wallet o coin purses.

Parte kan kwartang nakokoa kan mga myembros kan IWS piggigibong panggastos para sa saindang pang oro-aldaw na konsumo mantang pig-tatagama man an iba para pambakal nin mga materyales sa pagtahi kan mga nasambit na produkto tanganing makagibo nin mga bagong desenyo.

Saro sa mga miyembros kan IWS iyo si Sonia Valdez, sarong solo parent na igwang limang aki na pigbubuhay. Walong taon na si Sonia bilang paratahi nin mga bags sa SWMO.

(JBN/DONPIO, CEPPIO.)

Naga’s SWMO adopts WACS for its waste diversion

Jason Neola — Tue, 24 May 2022 08:17:41 +0000

ROPE MAKING Workers of the Naga City Sanitary Landfill help each other make a coir rope.

What should Naga, a highly urbanized city, do to reduce its garbage of some 93 tons (average of 42 to 60 dump trucks) every day?

The city government of Naga’s Solid Waste Management Office (SWMO) has adopted a waste diversion strategy to be able to achieve the planned 10-15 percent residual waste. Residual waste materials are the ones left once the recyclable or compostable wastes have been separated.

Volunteers collect and sort recyclable materials at SLF.

Engr. Joel Martin, SWMO chief, said that he is expecting that with WACS approach (a contraction for waste analysis and characterization study) the city’s waste diversion effort will further be improved as more waste will be properly identified for recycling and composting.

WACS serves as a tool to identify constituent materials, which comprise solid waste generated and disposed of within an area. It identifies constituent materials by volume, percentage in weight or its volumetric equivalent, material type and source of generation, which includes residential, commercial, industrial and institutional.

“Thru WACS we can be able to determine and analyze the component of waste that increases and decreases, an important thing to consider in the implementation of our waste diversion project,” Martin said.

At present, the SWMO is engaged in the conversion of residual plastic into liquid fuel as part of the strategy to reduce waste resources being dumped into the sanitary landfill.

There are three more initiatives being undertaken by SWMO as part of its diversion project:

Conversion of biodegradable waste into compost like food-waste;
Conversion of coco fiber into charcoal or rope which is being placed on top of the landfill as anti-erosion engineering; and
Manufacturing of hollow blocks contained with shredded plastic which can be used in the construction of horizontal structures

Martin said the LGU, in partnership with Central Bicol State University of Agriculture (CBSUA) has begun to explore the possibility of manufacturing tiles made of plastic and other waste materials designed for outdoor use.

In an interview, Mayor Nelson Legacion said the waste diversion project is also being undertaken in anticipation of the days to come when business operations in the city, which were affected by the pandemic, will become vibrant again.

“We can expect to double the volume of our waste by the time Covid-19 ends due to the presence also of new businesses,” he said.

The SWMO, which continues to improve its mining of recyclable waste resources, has called on the Nagueño to constantly practice the segregation-at-source approach.

Legacion said that “The best part of segregation at source is that neither it costs us anything nor does it take time. We need only to behave responsibly to achieve the goal of waste segregation. To boost the activity of waste recycling, it is a basic necessity to focus on waste segregation that helps to identify the degradable and non-biodegradable components of the waste.”

The SWMO has 359 environment watch volunteers in the city’s 27 barangays who assist in the collection and sorting of recyclable waste.