The City Of Garbage

by Nomadicasian for Rus in Urbe    August 29, 2008

Two days before the 99^th founding anniversary and one year before the centennial celebration, the City of Baguio has yet to find a long term solution to the garbage problem. Added to the problem is the bickering among elected local officials on who should be given contract to haul the garbage and how much the estimate cost allocation to fund the said project which was initially proposed by the city mayor.

The mayor in his eagerness to solve the garbage crisis, unilaterally and may be with the recommendation of his inner circle, inked an agreement with Metro Waste to haul the garbage and transport it to Tarlac, a province in Central Luzon which is absolutely a distant far from Baguio City, a mountain resort north of the Philippines.

Thus the other city officials concerned questioned the agreement. They contend that the project is too costly because it will need more manpower and resources to fund the garbage hauling considering that its transportation to the lowland will cost the city government millions of pesos.

But despite of opposition, disagreement and brickbats, the city mayor won in his desire to resolve the garbage crisis which has been fouling the air of the Summer Capital of the Philippines for the past months. This short term solution of the mayor hopefully will sustain and continue until next year for the 100 years founding anniversary celebration of the former US R&R resort City of Baguio.

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