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DAVAO CITY—The City Health Office (CHO) has begun disinfection and decontamination operations in areas where garbage has piled up following the shutdown of the city’s sanitary landfill.
Personnel from the CHO’s Tropical Disease Prevention and Control Unit sprayed chemicals on mounds of trash along sidewalks and street corners to reduce foul odor and prevent the spread of flies and maggots, as waste continues to accumulate with no final disposal site currently available.
The operation of the city’s sanitary landfill has been suspended since May 22, after a trash slide on May 20 buried 15 houses in a nearby community, killing two residents and leaving another missing.
The closure has disrupted the city’s solid waste management system, prompting the local government to urge residents to temporarily keep their garbage inside their homes, as there is currently no final disposal site for the roughly 750 tons of waste generated daily by nearly two million residents.
