Is there a way to minimize the metro’s garbage? “According to Engineer Emma Quiambao, Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) Flood Control and Sewerage Management Office director, their Estero Blitz operations has removed 1,124 truckloads of garbage, equivalent to 7,190 cubic meters of waste, from 15 major Metro Manila waterways,” reports Anna Liza Villas-Alavaren in Manila Bulletin.
That’s only as of Thursday, June 5.
The report enumerated the waterways that got declogged: Viente Reales creek in Valenzuela; Tanigue Creek in Caloocan; Letre open canal, Tonsuya, and Pinagsabugan Creek in Malabon; Mariblo creek, Anaran creek, and Tanique Creek in Quezon City; Concepcion creek/Bayanbayanan Box Culvert in Marikina City; Hagonoy Retarding Pond/Hagonoy Creek in Taguig City; Sapang Buwaya Creek, San Isidro in Parañaque; Pasong Diablo Creek in Alabang, Muntinlupa; Maricaban Creek in Pasay; Estero Tripa de Gallina from Malate in Manila and from Buendia Avenue to Zobel Roxas in Pasay.
The report said “most of the collected was composed of plastics and Styrofoam.”
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