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                    [Title] => Red tape causes joblessness, pollution, injustice, deaths
                    [Summary] => 

Here are four angering accounts of officiousness that cost citizens their livelihoods, health, and search for redress.

[DatePublished] => 2013-05-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134276 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805283 [AuthorName] => Jarius Bondoc [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 934995 [Title] => Negligent local officials, drivers decimating us [Summary] =>

How many more have to die or be crippled by trash-slides, road crashes, and construction debris tumbles before local officials start enforcing more strictly garbage, traffic, and safety rules?

[DatePublished] => 2013-04-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134276 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805283 [AuthorName] => Jarius Bondoc [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 859529 [Title] => Council wants cancellation of Quiot Material Recovery Facility [Summary] =>

The Cebu City Council wants to cancel the Material Recovery Facility project in barangay Quiot and instead use the fund to establish an MRF in barangays Guba, Kalunasan and Adlaon.

[DatePublished] => 2012-10-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097048 [AuthorName] => Jessica Ann R. Pareja [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 546908 [Title] => Environment linked to jobs, economy - Legarda [Summary] =>

Environmental protection and enhancement are directly linked to economic development and jobs, according to Sen. Loren Legarda.

[DatePublished] => 2010-02-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 457000 [Title] => Department of Health binira sa sinunog na peanut butter [Summary] =>

Nilabag umano ng Department of Health ang Clean Air Act at Ecological Waste Management Act nang ipasunog ng DOH sa Taguig noong Martes ng nakaraang linggo ang 3,000 bote ng Yummy Sweet and Creamy Peanut Butter at Ludy’s Sweet and Creamy Peanut Butter na gawa ng Samuya Food Manufacturing Inc. at kontaminado ng nakaka­lasong Salmonella.

[DatePublished] => 2009-04-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Bansa [SectionUrl] => bansa [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 367436 [Title] => Trash talk [Summary] => Long has our country been struggling with the perennial garbage problem. Anywhere you go, you see garbage either strewn along the streets or piled carelessly on the side, with all sorts of pests rummaging in wild abandon. A few months after the tragedy that befell Payatas several years back, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo signed into law the Ecological Waste Management Act. [DatePublished] => 2006-11-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135430 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1115213 [AuthorName] => Alejandro R. Roces [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 344359 [Title] => City denies lot owner a permit to fence lot [Summary] => A landowner in sitio Uldog, barangay Cansojong in Talisay City has been denied a permit to fence a property in the same barangay due to complaints from neighbors who accuse her of transforming her lot into a private dumpsite.

The city, reacting to her neighbors' complaint and later on discovering that her property lacked a drainage system, has ordered landowner Mrs. Manuel Go Teng to discontinue the practice. The City Planning and Development Coordinator Office denied Teng's application.
[DatePublished] => 2006-06-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 251806 [Title] => Greenpeace launches anti-cancer drive [Summary] => Environmentalists led by Greenpeace have launched a campaign against the open burning of garbage, which has been identified as a significant source of cancer-causing pollutants.

Dubbed "Patay Siga Kontra Kanser," the campaign was launched recently in Smokey Mountain in Tondo, where open burning of garbage is widespread despite the prohibitions of Republic Act 9003, or the Ecological Waste Management Act.
[DatePublished] => 2004-05-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097368 [AuthorName] => Mike Frialde [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 234469 [Title] => Care for the environment [Summary] => Any news other than politics is most welcome at this time. It gives us a refreshing breather from the almost suffocating news pollution caused by too much political wheeling and dealing and acrobatic stunts of dirty old politicians still trying very hard to inflict their unwanted presence in our society. So let me tell you about another kind of news that may not merit banner headlines but is more invigorating to our environment in the real sense of the word. This is about certain people working behind the scenes and without fanfare to improve our natural surroundings. [DatePublished] => 2004-01-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133340 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804883 [AuthorName] => Jose C. Sison [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 227481 [Title] => QC Council gives nod to Payatas conversion [Summary] => The Quezon City Council has approved a resolution authorizing Mayor Feliciano Belmonte Jr. to enter into a negotiated contract with a reputable firm to convert Payatas dump into a controlled facility.

The resolution, principally authored by Councilor Antonio Inton Jr. (4th district) is in consonance with Republic Act 9003, or the Ecological Waste Management Act, which gives local government units three years to close open dumps.

Under the law, the Quezon City government has until Jan. 6, 2005 to convert Payatas into a controlled dump.
[DatePublished] => 2003-11-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) ) )
ECOLOGICAL WASTE MANAGEMENT ACT
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    [results] => Array
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            [0] => Array
                (
                    [ArticleID] => 937759
                    [Title] => Red tape causes joblessness, pollution, injustice, deaths
                    [Summary] => 

Here are four angering accounts of officiousness that cost citizens their livelihoods, health, and search for redress.

[DatePublished] => 2013-05-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134276 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805283 [AuthorName] => Jarius Bondoc [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 934995 [Title] => Negligent local officials, drivers decimating us [Summary] =>

How many more have to die or be crippled by trash-slides, road crashes, and construction debris tumbles before local officials start enforcing more strictly garbage, traffic, and safety rules?

[DatePublished] => 2013-04-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134276 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1805283 [AuthorName] => Jarius Bondoc [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 859529 [Title] => Council wants cancellation of Quiot Material Recovery Facility [Summary] =>

The Cebu City Council wants to cancel the Material Recovery Facility project in barangay Quiot and instead use the fund to establish an MRF in barangays Guba, Kalunasan and Adlaon.

[DatePublished] => 2012-10-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097048 [AuthorName] => Jessica Ann R. Pareja [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 546908 [Title] => Environment linked to jobs, economy - Legarda [Summary] =>

Environmental protection and enhancement are directly linked to economic development and jobs, according to Sen. Loren Legarda.

[DatePublished] => 2010-02-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 457000 [Title] => Department of Health binira sa sinunog na peanut butter [Summary] =>

Nilabag umano ng Department of Health ang Clean Air Act at Ecological Waste Management Act nang ipasunog ng DOH sa Taguig noong Martes ng nakaraang linggo ang 3,000 bote ng Yummy Sweet and Creamy Peanut Butter at Ludy’s Sweet and Creamy Peanut Butter na gawa ng Samuya Food Manufacturing Inc. at kontaminado ng nakaka­lasong Salmonella.

[DatePublished] => 2009-04-14 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Bansa [SectionUrl] => bansa [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 367436 [Title] => Trash talk [Summary] => Long has our country been struggling with the perennial garbage problem. Anywhere you go, you see garbage either strewn along the streets or piled carelessly on the side, with all sorts of pests rummaging in wild abandon. A few months after the tragedy that befell Payatas several years back, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo signed into law the Ecological Waste Management Act. [DatePublished] => 2006-11-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135430 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1115213 [AuthorName] => Alejandro R. Roces [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 344359 [Title] => City denies lot owner a permit to fence lot [Summary] => A landowner in sitio Uldog, barangay Cansojong in Talisay City has been denied a permit to fence a property in the same barangay due to complaints from neighbors who accuse her of transforming her lot into a private dumpsite.

The city, reacting to her neighbors' complaint and later on discovering that her property lacked a drainage system, has ordered landowner Mrs. Manuel Go Teng to discontinue the practice. The City Planning and Development Coordinator Office denied Teng's application.
[DatePublished] => 2006-06-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Cebu News [SectionUrl] => cebu-news [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 251806 [Title] => Greenpeace launches anti-cancer drive [Summary] => Environmentalists led by Greenpeace have launched a campaign against the open burning of garbage, which has been identified as a significant source of cancer-causing pollutants.

Dubbed "Patay Siga Kontra Kanser," the campaign was launched recently in Smokey Mountain in Tondo, where open burning of garbage is widespread despite the prohibitions of Republic Act 9003, or the Ecological Waste Management Act.
[DatePublished] => 2004-05-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097368 [AuthorName] => Mike Frialde [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 234469 [Title] => Care for the environment [Summary] => Any news other than politics is most welcome at this time. It gives us a refreshing breather from the almost suffocating news pollution caused by too much political wheeling and dealing and acrobatic stunts of dirty old politicians still trying very hard to inflict their unwanted presence in our society. So let me tell you about another kind of news that may not merit banner headlines but is more invigorating to our environment in the real sense of the word. This is about certain people working behind the scenes and without fanfare to improve our natural surroundings. [DatePublished] => 2004-01-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133340 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804883 [AuthorName] => Jose C. Sison [SectionName] => Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 227481 [Title] => QC Council gives nod to Payatas conversion [Summary] => The Quezon City Council has approved a resolution authorizing Mayor Feliciano Belmonte Jr. to enter into a negotiated contract with a reputable firm to convert Payatas dump into a controlled facility.

The resolution, principally authored by Councilor Antonio Inton Jr. (4th district) is in consonance with Republic Act 9003, or the Ecological Waste Management Act, which gives local government units three years to close open dumps.

Under the law, the Quezon City government has until Jan. 6, 2005 to convert Payatas into a controlled dump.
[DatePublished] => 2003-11-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) ) )
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