US EditionDENR Chief Orders Long-Term Waste Solutions for Cebu
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources halted landfill operations after six deaths and dozens missing due to a garbage landslide linked to heavy rainfall and engineering issues.
- On Thursday, January 8, the Binaliw landfill in Barangay Binaliw, Cebu City collapsed, destroying a materials recovery facility, and fatalities rose to six after two more bodies were retrieved yesterday morning.
- Investigators point to oversaturation from periodic rainfall, probable geotechnical lapses, and landfill location as possible causes, while the Department of Environment and Natural Resources in Central Visayas ordered a cease-and-desist.
- Search-and-Rescue teams raced the clock, composed of firefighters, police officers, military personnel and city disaster risk reduction personnel, while a 50-ton crane lifted twisted tin roofs and iron beams from the materials recovery facility.
- Data from the Bureau of Fire Protection showed 31 missing and 12 hospitalized, while city officials said 28 remained missing and 18 were hospitalized as of January 12, and facility operations are suspended with alternative dumping sites identified, including in Consolacion town.
- On Monday, January 12, rescue operations continued after detectors picked up signs of life, with Cebu City Mayor Nestor Archival confirming searches extended beyond January 11.
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DENR chief orders long-term waste solutions for Cebu
MANILA – Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Secretary Raphael Lotilla has ordered the Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) Central Visayas to develop long-term and resilient solid waste management solutions for Cebu. Lotilla made the directive after the tragic trash slide at the Binaliw sanitary landfill in Cebu City that left at least 13 people dead and dozens more still missing. “Solid waste management is a combination of …
DENR issues cease-and-desist order vs Cebu landfill operator
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Central Visayas has issued a cease-and-desist order against Prime Integrated Waste Solutions, Inc. (PWS), the operator of the collapsed landfill in Barangay Binaliw, Cebu City, where several people died.
DENR issues cease and desist order vs Cebu landfill operator
CEBU, Philippines – The Department of Environment and Natural Resources in Central Visayas (DENR 7) on Monday, January 12, issued a cease-and-desist order (CDO) against Prime Integrated Waste Solutions, Incorporated (PIWSI), the operator of the Cebu City landfill where a landslide killed at least eight people. “The CDO was issued pursuant to Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) Memorandum Circular 2007‑002, which authorizes the EMB Regional Di…
Cebu landfill tragedy prompts calls for waste workers magna carta
The Magna Carta for Waste Workers must be passed now, before another tragedy claims more lives. By Shan Kenshin EcaldreBulatlat.com Cebu City — The deadly landslide at the Binaliw landfill and materials recovery facility (MRF) in Cebu City has renewed calls to pass the proposed Magna Carta for Waste Workers. Labor, environmental groups, and progressive lawmakers said that the absence of legal protection continues to place waste workers’ lives in…
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