A Little History of La Trinidad's Solid Waste Management

Garbage is one of the biggest problems of La Trinidad today and even from the past years. It began when Garbage started to escalate to the point that the town's dump site itself began to decline.

From the previous Mayors of La Trinidad, solutions like the following:

"Super Plasma Decomposition" and "Super Black Hole Machine 2011" were used to function and accommodate the rapid growth of solid wastes. However, did it delay the garbage escalation? For some times yes, but at most, not exactly.

In 2012 the operation of the machine, particularly the Black Hole Machine, is alleged for not decomposing the claimed 10 tons of Garbage but instead, only 1 or 2 tons were being decomposed.

In 2013 Alno Dump site was ordered to close for maintenance. Cracks on walls were detected, the machine couldn't get its quota or the number of tons that should decompose daily, and the worst, the segregation process were held up because retaining walls were needed to be repaired.

Today, due to the problem of the dump site, Government officials negotiated to other places like Tarlac for the garbages be contained. In return, the town should pay for the expenses. What turned out was that the town pays the place millions of peso for the said purpose.

Sources:

Emman, J. 2011. Retrieved from http://wazzupbaguio.blogspot.com/2011/11/la-trinidad-banking-on-black-hole-to.html

Sim, V. 2012. Retrieved from http://valredolsim.blogspot.com/2012/06/la-trinidads-garbage-woes.html

Bayanihan. 2014. Retrieved from http://bayanihan.org/2014/08/07/garbage-problem-in-la-trinidad-mounts/.

Pasagoy, M. 2016. Retrieved from http://www.sunstar.com.ph/baguio/local-news/2016/07/31/la-trinidad-seeking-remedy-trash-debt-488565.

Empian, O. 2016. Retrieved from http://www.baguiomidlandcourier.com.ph/environment.asp?mode=%20archives/2016/august/8-14-2016/env4-LT-garbage-hauler-still-unpaid.txt