Victorias City will only deliver one compactor truck of residual waste per month to Bacolod City’s sanitary landfill if granted permission by the host government, its environment officer said Friday, July 3.
While documents state a maximum allowance of 30 cubic meters of residual waste a month, actual deliveries will not reach that amount, Lara Ann Garcia, officer-in-charge of the Victorias City Environment and Natural Resources Office, said.
The residual waste they will deliver to Bacolod will just be one mid-sized compactor truck—with a capacity of six to eight cubic meters—once a month, Garcia said.
She clarified that this arrangement would only be temporary until the Victorias sanitary landfill becomes operational.
Garcia noted that the disposal of residual waste in another local government unit (LGU) is permitted by law, citing the provincial government’s construction of a shared sanitary landfill in La Castellana for several LGUs in the south.
The Solid Waste Management Board of Bacolod City has already approved Victorias’ request to dispose of its garbage at the sanitary landfill in Barangay Felisa.
Bacolod City Legal Officer Karol Joseph Chiu confirmed that the request is legally permissible, adding that the city can accommodate the waste from Victorias as cell number 5 in Felisa is scheduled to open soon.
While the City Council has accepted the recommendation to authorize the signing of a Memorandum of Agreement between the two cities, the Sangguniang Panlungsod is still reviewing the actual capacity of the landfill.*
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