UNSAFE SLOPE A view of the sanitary landfill in Barangay New Carmen, Davao City, where a massive waste mound collapsed on Wednesday, May 20, triggering a trash slide that left one dead, two injured and two missing. —SCREENGRAB FROM RMN-DXDC VIDEO
DAVAO CITY—The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), through the Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) in the Davao Region, on Friday ordered the permanent closure of the old sanitary landfill in Barangay New Carmen here, as a new garbage disposal site has become available to handle the city’s estimated 750 tons of waste per day.
The DENR said no further dumping operations would be allowed at the existing landfill. Operations at the site had been temporarily suspended on May 21, a day after a mountain of garbage collapsed and buried 15 houses in a nearby community, resulting in two deaths, two injuries, and one person still missing.
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