Will such facilities make markets in Quezon City cleaner? Well, it’s a step in the right direction.
“The Quezon City council has enacted an ordinance that would require marketplaces, public and private, to install and operate sewage treatment plants as a prerequisite to the issuance or renewal of their permits to operate,” reports Jeannette Andrade in Philippine Daily Inquirer.
This follows a MMDA’s recently launched “Linis Palengke” program, an ongoing search for the cleanest wet market in Metro Manila.
On Monday, the city council passed on the third and final reading an ordinance on Sewage Treatment Plants in Quezon City markets which provides a legal framework on why markets in the city must have sewage treatment plants.
The measure’s author, Councilor Gian Carlo Sotto, warned about the hazards of untreated market waste causing danger to public health.
Quezon City has 11 public markets, while privately owned markets include Cloverleaf and MC Markets in Balintawak, Barangay Balingasa; Muñoz Market in Barangay Veterans Village; Visayas Wet and Dry Market and the Tandang Sora Bayan Palengke in Barangay Tandang Sora; Litex Wet and Dry Market in Barangay Commonwealth; New Arayat Market in Barangay San Martin de Porres; and ES & EM Market in Barangay Kaligayahan.
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