BAGUIO CITY—Five municipalities from the different parts of the Cordillera recently received financial assistance from the regional office of the Environmental Management Bureau to put up their materials recovery facilities and help the local governments comply with the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act.
Reynaldo S. Digamo, EMB-CAR regional director, said the grant of P300,000 each to Natonin, Mountain Province; Tinoc Asipulo and Lagawe in Ifugao; and Luna, Apayao, is part of the agency’s commitment to assist local governments to establish MRFs that are compliant with the law.
We will closely monitor the construction of the MRFs in the beneficiary municipalities so that their projects will conform to the approved design of the facility. We will also monitor the operation of the facilities once the construction will be completed to make sure that the assistance will be utilized to the fullest,” Digamo stressed.
Under the guidelines of the grant, the beneficiary municipalities should have an available government lot where the facility will be constructed as part of their counterpart to the project.