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Recycled garbage to become Boracay’s next tourist attraction
BORACAY ISLAND, Aklan– Promoters of the sustainable waste management (SWM) here are fast-tracking efforts on making this resort island become ‘zero-waste’ by 2010.
“Almost all of the best practices on sustainable waste management in the entire country, we already practiced it here. We already have requested several organizations in Metro Manila to bring us more facilities for recycling wastes,” said Antonio.
Barangay Balabag is the center of tourism activities in Boracay hosting more than 400 resorts out of more than 600 establishments currently in Boracay.
“Our waste collection truck gathered 90 tons of garbage in the public places of barangay alone monthly. These do not include tons of garbage taken from garden waste and from private resorts that have their own garbage trucks as they deliver their wastes in our MRF,” said Antonio.
The garbage truck before collecting the garbage of the residents and some resorts see to it that wastes are already segregated from biodegradable to non-biodegradable.
“We also do vermiculture and some of our personnel also do part-time in recycling magazines and newspapers and developed them into souvenir items such as trinkets, beads, bracelets and necklace,” said Antonio.
The shredded bottles and cans are mixed with used cooking oil and recycled into styrofor bricks that could be used as flooring for resorts and houses.
Currently, the produced bricks and other recycled materials are delivered to the Balabag Parish for free as part of its beautification efforts.
The MRF also sells organic fertilizers at an almost ‘give-away’ prices. It is also now open for educational tours for students, environmentalists and SWM enthusiasts.
The facilities were set up to comply with Republic Act 9003 or the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act, which not only bans open dumping but also provides for waste management starting at the barangay level. A similar MRF facilities were also established in other Boracay barangays Manoc-Manoc and Yapak.
The MRF-Balabag is being headed by its former barangay captain Glen Sacapano.
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