CEBU CITY, Philippines — Mayor Nestor Archival confirmed on Wednesday that Cebu City has started stockpiling collected garbage at the South Road Properties (SRP).
This developed after the city exhausted its contracted waste disposal volume in Aloguinsan town and while City Hall pushes to resume dumping operations at the controversial Binaliw landfill.
The measure exposes the worsening pressure on the city’s fragile waste management system nearly four months after the deadly Binaliw trash slide forced the closure of the landfill and triggered a citywide garbage crisis.
Archival had formally recognized the crisis with an executive order signed on May 6, 2026, declaring a state of solid waste management emergency in Cebu City.
The declaration mandates the taking of immediate, drastic measures to divert waste as the city struggles with a “pressing crisis” that has lingered since the January 8 disaster that claimed 36 lives.
