NIGHT COLLECTION Sanitation workers collect garbage from hotels and restaurants in downtown Baguio during the city’s nightly collection. The waste, segregated in clear plastic bags, is sorted into residual and biodegradable materials as part of Baguio’s circular economy program. —Vincent Cabreza
BAGUIO CITY, Philippines — The city spends between P150 million and P200 million a year to transport its residual waste to an engineered sanitary landfill in Urdaneta City, Pangasinan, underscoring the high cost of operating without its own final disposal facility.
Assistant City General Services Officer Ma. Guadalupe Della said the city continues to shoulder the multimillion-peso hauling cost because it has yet to establish its own final solid waste disposal facility.
In a statement issued by the Baguio City Public Information Office (PIO) on Saturday July 11, Della was quoted as saying that the city expects the cost of hauling waste to decline once its planned central Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) is completed at the temporary waste transfer station in Barangay Dontogan. The facility is expected to reduce the volume of residual waste that needs to be transported outside the city.
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