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MANILA,
Sept. 23 (PNA) – In its continuing efforts to keep Quezon City as one
of the cleanest and greenest cities in the country, the city government
on Monday launched the “Green School Brigade” program.
A
priority project of Mayor Feliciano “SB” Belmonte Jr. under the
auspices of the Environmental Protection and Waste Management Division
(EPWMD), headed by Ms. Frederika Rentoy, the Green SB program is a
school-based segregation and recycling project that hopes to inculcate
among public elementary and high school students the virtues of the
3R’s of solid waste management – reduce, reuse and recycle.
With the program, EPWMD hopes to improve the waste management efficiency of the city.
Records
show that Quezon City ranks second among Metro Manila local government
units with the best record in waste management, managing to keep
668,092.88 kilos of waste from being dumped at the Payatas dumpsite
daily through recycling.
Through
Green SB, students are encouraged to collect recyclable waste and take
them to designated redemption areas in their schools in exchange for
school supplies or grocery items.
The
EPWMD said that they are shunning away from the usual practice of
giving cash as officials said students might just use the money in
unworthy undertakings.
Six
schools –- the Lagro Elementary and High Schools, Manuel L. Quezon
Elementary school, Payatas C Elementary School, Ernesto Rondon
Elementary School and the Commonwealth Elementary School -- have been
chosen as pilot areas for the implementation of the Green SB Program.
(PNA)
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