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EYESORE Uncollected garbage piles up along Dacudao Street in Davao City on Wednesday. Residents are forced to leave their trash along several streets in the city as the operation of the sanitary landfill in Barangay New Carmen remains suspended. —JOSELLE R. BADILLA
DAVAO CITY, Philippines — An environmental group has called attention to “a critical waste management crisis” facing this city, Mindanao’s largest and premier urban center, two weeks after a mound of garbage in its sanitary landfill facility collapsed and buried three people.
In a statement released on Wednesday, the nongovernment group Interfacing Development Interventions for Sustainability (Idis) noted that “uncollected garbage (is) accumulating in streets and communities” in the city of some 1.8 million people.
“This stark reality demands immediate attention and responsibility,” the group pointed out.
