The Quezon City government is mulling a shame campaign and
the putting up of wire baskets to discourage people from throwing garbage in
rivers and creeks.
Frederika Rentoy, Quezon City Environmental Protection and
Waste Management Department (EPWMD) head, said the measures seek to assure that
waterways that have been cleaned by the city government are not turned into
garbage dumps again.
EPWMD has already cleaned up some of the city's creeks and
rivers including Paltok Creek, Balingasa, and Pasong Tamo.
"It's hard to control the throwing of garbage in the city's
waterways so there is a need to have a campaign against this practice in order
to save the creeks and rivers for us to have a clean and safe water," Rentoy
said.
She said her department would soon launch the shame campaign
in an effort to discourage dirty surroundings.
However, she did not specify how litterbugs would be
"shamed," and how it would be different from the shame campaign being
implemented by the Metropolitan Manila
Development Authority (MMDA).
Rentoy said the garbage baskets would be put in nearby rivers
or creeks to prevent people in the area from throwing their garbage in the
river. The wire-made basket as big as half a dump truck would serve as garbage
collection station in the barangays.
She said the garbage that was thrown in the wire-basket will
be collected regularly by a dump truck assigned in the area.
She also said EPWMD will soon use "karitons" to collect garbage particularly
in areas where dump trucks could not pass through because the streets are
narrow.
