Employees of local and national agencies, along with students, participated in the planting of hundreds of seedlings of fruit-bearing trees and ornamentals at the closed dumpsite in Barangay Candau-ay, Dumaguete City, as part of this year’s Arbor Day celebration June 13.
Mayor Felipe Antonio Remollo led the participants in the tree-planting activity, which is in line with his advocacy of increasing the green spaces in the city by developing the closed dumpsite as an eco-park to support the campaign for environmental protection and preservation.
Closed in March 2021, the old dumpsite is now undergoing rehabilitation and is being developed as a park so that residents and visitors alike can enjoy outdoor recreational and sports activities, with a nice vista of the Mt. Talinis, Cebu and Siquijor islands, the city said in a press release.
Department of Environment and Natural Resources Region 7 director, Ma. Victoria Abrera, earlier commended Remollo and the Dumaguete LGU for achieving compliant status on all the parameters set forth in Republic Act 9003, or the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000, including the closure and rehabilitation of the dumpsite.
Organized by the City Environment and Natural Resources Office, headed by Engr. Chilver Patrimonio, the tree planting activity was in line with the celebration of the Philippine Environment Month, on the theme “End Global Plastic Pollution”. ||
