Dirty! yes dirty practice in the Philippines

Well not so much dirty but unhygienic and not logic thinking, plus people are back to burning bio-gradable waste and causing a fresh pollution problem. The culprit seemingly is Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental, Philippines; Mayor Agustin Ramon M. Perdices or his advisors; Environment & Natural Resources Office Rogelio B. Clamonte and City Health Officer Dra. Talla. 
  The citizen Bio-gradable waste is not collected any more, the citizens are asked to make their own fertilizer. But how many know how, its leading to those that don’t and those with no time or too lazy dumping bio-gradable waste into a pit or dumping it in their garden to burn it once a week or more than once a week. Of course this attracts rats and vermin and the burning was banned but many Filipino’s will break the law.

Restaurants in the city have biggest problem as their bio-gradable waste is in greater quantity. Today I have heard complaints on the local radio station in regards to this un-logic un-sanitary situation.  It can not be left in Filipino citizens hands to handle their own bio-gradable waste they will just revert back to the older times when there was a lack of garbage collection.
  This certainly was not the intension of the Philippine Government that drew up plans and created the new laws that covers garbage collection its segregation and collection by local authorities.
 
Also it would seem Dumaguete City streets are not as clean as they used to be, the Mayor really needs to wake up to the fact there is an election next year. Perhaps he is at the end of his elective term, but the fact is this latest event gives power to the bow of the opposition.

 I feel cheated as I moved from the Island of Cebu to Negros Oriental because of its good waste management and cleanliness now Dumaguete is becoming a dirtier and more unhygienic city to live in.  Back in Liloan where I used to live the Mayor Duke Frasco has made bold changes and Liloan has become a clean hygienic place to live, when before it was just the same as Dumaguete City is becoming a dirty city and worst still no bio-gradable garbage collection.  Perhaps if it gets worst I should head back to Liloan of course this dreadful problem will affect the tourism.

As people know I do a lot to promote people to visit the Philippines and in particularly to the beautiful Island I live on but I must tell the truth about what I see here in the City of Dumaguete of which does not reflect on the cleanest of the rest of Negros. In respect of balance of the facts I have ask the Mayor to comment on this article and as he is a good guy that works hard for the city and its development I feel that its not his fault that one or more of his team has let him down and not following his plans..