I THINK the government can and must do more to educate people on proper waste disposal and recycling.
Some places in the Philippines are observed to be a giant trash pit and because of individual habit and the “don’t care” attitude, more money is being used when calamities such as floods come. Furthermore, it’s a huge health issue which concerns everyone and costs the government millions.
Educate! Educate! Educate! Educate the masses. Provide social (barangay) seminars in all levels of society.
– Al Hinahon, Universal City, Texas (via e-mail)
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July 16th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
As I said, our colleagues in the House are surrendered to lack of resources and we’ve received nothing from Pork Barrel and GMA announces to us to keep those money she’d given to us quiet because she admitted before us that the Philippine Government has reduced collection of taxes after she forcefully implemented E-VAT where this is illegal and never approved by HM, King Anthony S. Martin but her allies in the World Bank Resident Mission Office in Pasig City welcomed this illegal move that we inadequately disagreed and we experienced reap of illegal activities of GMA when the whole Filipino communities suffered to continuous hike of all basic commodities. Let us admit that we have no money to pay GMA government for their own pastimes and let us admit to sit our new Head of State, HM, King Anthony S. Martin.
May 26th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
i think that we can still “possibly” revive the dead rivers that we have here in Phil esp. pasig river. we just need a tremendous discipline and care. garbage are meant for trash can. and you know what im thinking ryt now, the president should do something about the people residing on the side of the river. the number one source of waste or trash are coming from the people who lived there. i absolutely agree,, educate!! educate!!! educate!!! do some seminars and dazzle the people about the beauty that could posibly the river can give for us!!!
May 18th, 2008 at 11:37 pm
Luli Pidal
You can continue your crusade until 2010 up to the minutes that you will vote whose going to drain our country again!
Let go of that feeling and focus on things that will immediately have an effect to the majority like lowering mine, yours, your relatives, the peoples’ bill on ELECTRICITY AND OIL.
May 5th, 2008 at 8:07 am
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andrei Says:
April 23rd, 2008 at 11:02 am
Talk is cheap. Start picking the trash in Pasig if you like.
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You’re absulotely right, Talk is cheap! Tell it to the FAKE PRESIDENT OF CEBU BECAUSE SHE’S THE ONE TALKING CHEAP ALL THE TIME.
May 4th, 2008 at 9:20 am
Not only dead in term of Environment and healt. Dead for agriculture, too.
I don’t want to appear a Kontrabida but “Rice self suffeciency by 2010”, appears to be grandiose projection if not wishful thinking. State can only try. I think the projection is divorced of realism. Even if State pours all available resources towards that goal, the earliest that rice self sufficiency can be attained in this country is probably decades away.
Miracle rice was developed by the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in Los Baños, Laguna in the time of President Ferdinand. E. Marcos. It’s been all IR-Series Miracles since then. The Thais learned about rice in Laguna, Philippines. Maybe we have not seen the mother of all Miracles by IRRI yet.
Meanwhile, with our rain forests gone we are experiencing water shortages. What good are levees that are dry? In most part of the country, mechanized irrigation has to be employed by the time of the second cropping. We have that situation in most part of Negros Island. And I saw the same situation in Palawan as early as the mid 1990s. With rain forests gone and many rivers and or tributaries dry in summer, third cropping has become impossible in those places. In places where there is no asurance of a successful second cropping, farmers are prompted to plant corn or others after the first crop. The situations could be nationwide.
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April 23rd, 2008 at 11:02 am
Talk is cheap. Start picking the trash in Pasig if you like.
April 18th, 2008 at 11:20 am
sTUPID EXECITIVE BRANCH OF THE GOVERNMENT. Just a while ago, I talk to a new councilor who run for the administration. He said that out of ten positions, nine was won by opposition, and he was the only councilor on the administration side.
In fact, he said, “He has no loyalty to which ever party he is in. All he wants is to be transparent, and to serve the people.”
And our conversation touches the rice crisis.
He said, the rice crisis is just concoc by PGMA to divert the attention from the ‘ Jun Lozada’s exposy to the NTZ deal”
And he said, that the declararlion of the Lap-dog Director Arthur Yap “rice crisis” has open the gate way of hell. He can no longer stop consequence, like panic buying, speculations, rice hoardings. According the him, Stupid Arthur Yap has ignited a powder keg, and could no longer stop the following events we are in right now.
Remember mount Pinatobo volcano? According to the indiginous people in that place, National Power Corporation, was openning a hole on the ground to explore the possible establishment of a geothermal plant for electric use. What these government people got, was they OPEN THE GATE OF HELL!
But, it was not all bad. The volcano explossion has achieve what our senators and congressman cannot. The volcano drove the Americans in Clark and Subic for good.
What the volcano has achieve, now the senators, and congressman are trying to grab the credit to driving the Americans Military Base away.
Stupid lawmakers. Why not just confind yourself to your own pork barrels, instead of getting the credit from the volcano.
Ha! Ha! Ha! Wala talaga kayong delicadeza! Wala kayong alam kundi waldasin ang pera ng taong bayan.
April 18th, 2008 at 7:45 am
Jang jang–I notice, they notice, he, she, it notices. stop noticing Mrs. Pidal.
April 16th, 2008 at 8:21 pm
jang2…..hahaha. she will make lots of money dishing out inanities, w/c she alone understands. when she writes something, it beats the hell out of me, trying to untangle her words ;-(( sometimes i wonder if she is just making fun of it, and not really dumb. nanloloko yata ;-(
April 15th, 2008 at 10:22 pm
I like Mrs Pidal, her style of putting words to make a sentence and the way she delivers her reasoning is really one of a kind.
She can make money in the Phil. noontime shows. Not bad, really!
April 15th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
Malacanang is next to a stinky pasig river. How could a resident manage to live there, She is just as stinky as pasig river.
April 15th, 2008 at 9:44 am
BTW, dont think that removing Gloria without educating the masses/society of responsible voting will remove the stink. IT WILL NOT!!! it will still stink… If you dont believe me..DOGs already showed an example, no matter how many times they eat their shit, it still stinks everytime they shit it out again. So dont think like a dog!!
April 15th, 2008 at 9:34 am
Actually Mrs. Pidal and wonderwoman, the blame shouldnt be on PGMA. We dont blame Pasig river for being polluted, we dont tell Pasig River to flow somewhere else because she stinks and even changing the name of the river will not remove the stinks. We blame the people living at its banks including the factories that dispose their waste into the river. PGMA is like the polluted Pasig River, her govt is corrupt because the society made her so, even if she steps down the stink is still there, because the root cause of this stink is not resolve. So if you dont want to have a stinkin river or govt, educate the society, so they can vote wisely. There are more than 30 million voters, they can only cheat up to 3 million votes the most, if this 30 million voters can support only one deserving candidate, no amount of cheating can beat them. Dont throw your garbage in the river, similarly dont throw your vote on wicked politicians otherwise you will end up with a stinkin river and govt.
April 14th, 2008 at 11:23 pm
Im sorry, I commented on the wrong blog topic. Its suppose to be “The Dead Rivers” topic which pertains to our natural resources all together. I got carried away in stupidity by the dumb poets: Pogito, Wonderwoman and Mrs Pidal.
Going back to the topic, if we Filipinos are shouting for political will, we as citizen should also have our voluntary will of making our place clean.
Whats the difference between the Filipinos,Singaporeans Americans and the Europeans when it comes to the environment???
April 14th, 2008 at 10:10 pm
Sobra ka naman ronald, lahat na lang kasalanan ni GMA.
Maiingit si Erap, Fidel, Cory at Marcos niyan!
Hatiin na lang natin: Si Gloria ang may kasalanan kung bakit mataas ang bigas.
Si FVR, kasalanan kung bakit mataas ang langis.
Si Cory, kasalanan niya kung bakit mababa ang suweldo ng manggagawa.
Si Marcos, kasalan niya kung bakit malaki ang utang ng bansa.
Si ERAP, wala naman alam gawin kaya walang kasalan!
Meron pala, kasalanan niya kung bakit humina na ang FAMAS awards at bumaba ang pondo ng MOWELFUND.
April 14th, 2008 at 8:56 pm
to mrs. pidal.. it’s really funny to blame everything to PGMA. that’s over exagerating.. u dont even have a proof that she is squatting malacanang. nways, u can accuse her of anything but i doubt it n mpptunayan nyo. hangga’t d sya nahuhusgahan n guilty s batas ng pilipinas she is still innocent.
April 14th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
mrs. pidal….i’m sorry, i do not understand what you wrote. what are you trying to say;-(
April 14th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
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wonderwoman Says:
April 10th, 2008 at 9:24 pm
The only dead river I know is our government of PGMA. With so much corruption, involuntary disappearances, lies, and cheating occuring within a span of her tenure as president, river of life among Ethnic Filipinos will not only rot, but would finally be dead.
Talking of pollution, the ethnic Filipinos has been and still are being exposed to pollution never before experience by this banana republic.
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Yep! you got it. You go girl…..
April 14th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
The government can and must educate the people, but it won’t. In order to have a constant and absolute hold on power, the administration would rather prefer the people to be kept in the dark. Keep the people starving and poor and let them aspire for oly food on the table. The dead river signifies the rotten core of the arroyo government, a manifestation of all the festering ills her rule brings about.
GMA is the dead river that haunts us all. Let us put her there where she belongs!!!
April 14th, 2008 at 12:17 pm
ronald Says:
April 12th, 2008 at 11:45 pm
world rice crisis kasalanan ni GMA. pagtaas ng krudo at langis ksalanan ni GMA. pagtaas ng pmsahe ksalanan ni GMA. pgkwala ng mga aktibista kslanan ni GMA. pgbaba ng dollar s peso kslanan ni GMA. pti b nmn pg pgkwala ng ilog s pinas e kslanan p rin ni GMA? ang pgkmatay ni NINOY kslanan din b ni GMA? cguro kslanan din ni GMA kung bkit may global warming. ano b yan?
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Eh, Sino naman ang sisihin ng tao with all the problem the Philippines facing when she is the one squatting in Malacanyang Palace. I was surprise she didn’t blame it to Erap! she use to do that even though she is the one to blame. Its her job as a leader to solve the problem the philippines facing. Not other country!
April 14th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
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abbygail Says:
April 13th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
i think bayani and mmda are doing their job. it is the people living along the esteros who are to be blamed. because once mmda has dredged the esteros and rivers of their trash, they will throw their garbage again, once mmda has left! isn’t that pathetic?
and then these squatters blame mmda for the stench that the garbage create in the esteros too.
some sectors have alleged that living in the esteros is a source of corruption…those squattrs demand money from govt. first before they evacuate, and they do it for a living!
again, the sense of being “makasarili” and not thinking of the common good..
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If the rich’s don’t want the poor people to throw their trash in the street or river they should pick-up the trash that the poor people put in the street. Just like they’re picken up the trash where rich’s people live. Don’t you agree!
April 13th, 2008 at 5:22 pm
i think bayani and mmda are doing their job. it is the people living along the esteros who are to be blamed. because once mmda has dredged the esteros and rivers of their trash, they will throw their garbage again, once mmda has left! isn’t that pathetic?
and then these squatters blame mmda for the stench that the garbage create in the esteros too.
some sectors have alleged that living in the esteros is a source of corruption…those squattrs demand money from govt. first before they evacuate, and they do it for a living!
again, the sense of being “makasarili” and not thinking of the common good..
April 12th, 2008 at 11:45 pm
world rice crisis kasalanan ni GMA. pagtaas ng krudo at langis ksalanan ni GMA. pagtaas ng pmsahe ksalanan ni GMA. pgkwala ng mga aktibista kslanan ni GMA. pgbaba ng dollar s peso kslanan ni GMA. pti b nmn pg pgkwala ng ilog s pinas e kslanan p rin ni GMA? ang pgkmatay ni NINOY kslanan din b ni GMA? cguro kslanan din ni GMA kung bkit may global warming. ano b yan?
April 12th, 2008 at 8:01 pm
Cleaning our environment starts with us and not with the government. We dont throw our grabage in the river thinking its the government responsibility to clean it for us later. And then blame the govt if we see our thrash floating back to our homes. We must have discipline and responsibility if we want to preserve and improve our environment. Our famous “bahala na” system has to stop if we want the country to go positively forward.
April 12th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
Mrs Pidal,
Youre in the wrong blog topic madam. Check other blog issues for a relevant comment.
For your guidance and education.
April 12th, 2008 at 1:55 am
As long as even muncipalities just lead their uncleaned waste water into rivers and the sea, people will also not care. It is anyway a philippine manner to just hide trash anywhere, What you can not see is not existing. Look at the many houses with with “wealthy” front sides and all their waste and garbage at the back. It’s not what and how you be, it is how you look….
Many western, european countries have strict rules, gaebage has to be separated into recycle and non-recycle, glass by color, metal, paper, compostible matter etc. And waste water will be cleaned up to drinkable quality before it can be lead to rivers. It is expensive, but avoids higher costs caused by all the dangerous effects of polluted waste and water. Harsh fines make discipline easier…. Here, in contrary, you can see water pumping stations where car wash, animals, garbage are the surrounding.
April 11th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
Magdalo group that occupied the Oakwood Premiere Hotel in Makati City on July 27, 2003 to call for the resignation of fake President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo over alleged rampant corruption in the government.
they’re getting rotten in jail because they speak out all the corruption she has been doing. If there is rule of law in the Philippines Gloria Arroyo, should be in jail for all the crimes she has done to the filipino people. SHE IS A THIEF.
April 11th, 2008 at 9:27 am
In the early part of 20th century new york and chicago rivers are a dumps of anything including dead horses even human. Now they have it cleaned with trash, really clean and clear now it is replaced by unseen trash toxic waste.
Pasig river is both a dump for trash and toxic waste. What the hell is MMDA doing, Hello mr Fernando who wants to seat in Malacanang in 2010.
April 11th, 2008 at 2:35 am
The biggest problem in our country is there is no accountability and that is why the corrupt ones continue to do what they do. We have to be accountable. We should at least show that those who committed violations to the law stand to be punished so that it will serve as a deterrent. Yes! but how? even the judiary who swear to uphole rule of law is not doing their job the suppose too. As we all can see it they’re only protecting the MAFIA’S in Malacanyang palace and their cronies!
April 10th, 2008 at 9:24 pm
The only dead river I know is our government of PGMA. With so much corruption, involuntary disappearances, lies, and cheating occuring within a span of her tenure as president, river of life among Ethnic Filipinos will not only rot, but would finally be dead.
Talking of pollution, the ethnic Filipinos has been and still are being exposed to pollution never before experience by this banana republic.
April 10th, 2008 at 8:03 pm
spliceanddice Says:
April 9th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
@diego
“in japan, people segregate their trashes. they know where to put the recyclable to non-recyclable trash.”
Like politicians, too. Know thy politicians. Know which ones are recyclable. Know which ones have been recycled many times over. And know which ones are “non-recyclable trash.”
Interestingly,
“they obey traffic regulations etc.”
Which goes without saying that one should not speed one’s way to the presidency by “Garcifying” it lest one be chased by the haunting fear of easily losing what one easily gained, one that simply refuses to die.
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you’re absolutely right !!!
April 10th, 2008 at 7:23 pm
The subject must be change to “Rivers of Politics”. Does Gloria et-al pee or threw their feces out of the rivers? I think people in this forum are “disciplined citizens of the Philippines”, so why not do our shares and be a model citizen of our own respective communities, instead of throwing all invectives, oh boy, dead rivers get more polluted.
April 10th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
you have no right disciplining others if you cant discipline yourself…
April 10th, 2008 at 4:49 am
natatandaan kupa ang kwento nang mga matatanda sa isang malayung nayon sa mindanao may isang nayon kung saan ang mga nakatira ang ikinanabubuhay ang pangangaso minsan naguusap ang mga taga nayon kase madalang nalang ang mga usa halos wala na silang mahuli ang nakita nilang problema ang leon kinakain nila ang mga usa kaya napagkaisahan nila na lipulin ang mga leon para wala silang ka kumpetensya sa pangangaso at ganon nga ang nangyare nawala ang maga leon
dumami ang mga usa ang hindi nila alam lalung lumaki ang kanilang problema nang makalbo ang mga bundok at gubat wala nang makain ang mga usa hangang mawala din pati mga usa
April 9th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
@diego
“in japan, people segregate their trashes. they know where to put the recyclable to non-recyclable trash.”
Like politicians, too. Know thy politicians. Know which ones are recyclable. Know which ones have been recycled many times over. And know which ones are “non-recyclable trash.”
Interestingly,
“they obey traffic regulations etc.”
Which goes without saying that one should not speed one’s way to the presidency by “Garcifying” it lest one be chased by the haunting fear of easily losing what one easily gained, one that simply refuses to die.
April 9th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
Educate the masses. Check. But educate the rich for they seem to be the most in need of education, specifically the rich with useless brains. They pose a bigger threat, I think, to us and the rest of the environment.
More than just educating the masses, there must also be the strong pursuit to jail the bandits defiling the environment.
@Matsing
“OMG. GMA must be (again) blame on this responsibility.”
Well, what can one say? Straight from the horse’s mouth. You are so damn right.
@Jang Jang
“The govt and NGO should initiate and go directly to the masses.”
I thought ‘masses’ as in Christian masses, holy Eucharist and all that stuff. And I thought, my oh my, Gloria really should go to these masses.
@Luli Pidal
Bingo! One of the worst and longest squatting presidents in the history of this nation, and perhaps even the worst proof of environmental degradation of its kind.
April 9th, 2008 at 9:40 pm
what we luck is discipline. we need a leader that can instill discipline to everybody. a leader with political will to implement drastic measures for everyone to follow to change our bad habits. a leader that will serve as role model for everybody. a leader that don’t lie, cheat and steal.
Who else you’re going to blame but none other then the FAKE PRESIDENT GLORIA ARROYO. After all she’s the one squatting in Malacanyang Palace for over 7 year’s! Because of her the Philippines economy going down under. So much about her rosy economy. Its a joke!
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Right it is the Presidents fault we live like pigs including tossing our plastics everywhere we please even if we are riding a Jeepney.
Discipline starts in the home… We learn bad habits and practice them daily by ignoring the laws because they don’t suit us. We take money for votes and we have the Government we deserve.
People need to walk in front of a mirror an see were most of our problems really lie… The person you see in the mirror is the person that accepts the throwing of trash anywhere… accepts the squatters as neighbors and lets them throw urine and feces into our water ways. We also could care less about the environment so we accept illegal logging, and gross amounts of chemical waste being dumped into our water ways by companies large and small.
Wake up people it is OUR Fault we have dead rivers by doing NOTHING in the first place and accepting “the way it has always been!”
If we really want to clean up the mess we MUST do something and get involved. It is a tough struggle and I am part of that struggle. You are not a popular person once you start holding peoples feet to the fire in the form of mandating compliance with existing laws via DENR. You all are more than welcome to join in by doing something productive to fix the mess we have created vs “living with it.” Identification and reporting by citizens is the only way anything is going to happen. If you expect government to be the solution your very very wrong. We are the problem and the solution!
April 9th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
In this issue, it doesn’t matter who’s the president, be it GMA or Erap or whatever. What matters is how the president can actually implement adamant rules concerning our environment. I am not pro-GMA but I think we should not put the whole weight of the blame on her because the environmental problems that we are having right now didn’t show up only during her regime. It’s been here after the Marcos rule. Besides, the citizens also have their share of responsibility in this matter, a big share that is.
Katulad nga ng nasabi ng iba kulang na kulang tayong mga Pilipino sa disiplina. Tamad tayo at ayaw lang natin aminin yun. Maraming Pilipino ang nagrereklamo sa konsepto ng waste segregation. Dagdag trabaho daw kasi… Hassle. Marapat lang na tanggalin na natin sa sistema natin ‘to dahil tayo rin ang napeperwisyo.
Tingin ko hindi naman tayo nagkulang sa pangaral tungkol sa polusyon. We’re just APATHETIC with regards to this issue. Katwiran nung iba, di naman daw sila apektado. Kahit ngayon na malaking issue na ang global warming, marami pa rin sa atin ang walang pakialam.
April 9th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
And how old are you Mr. Diego to commend the acts of the late Mr. Marcos? You were not probably born yet when EDSA 1 happened? I was 23 y/o during that time.
April 9th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
In Baguio segregation, and timing in the disposal, of garbage are properly observed. They have watchers who will apprehend and penalize violators. Don’t put the blame on the national government. Family is the basic unit of a community and they are governed by certain rules formulated by their localities. Put the local leaders into work and you will see the results.
April 9th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
Filipinos whether in government or private persons are simply not disciplined citizens as far as nation building is concerned. Self discipline does not mean one has to be educated to dispose his garbage properly. Since poor comprise the bulk of RP’s population, we can see a lot of squatters occupying the banks of waterways and rivers especially in the urban areas. They used the waterways and rivers as disposal areas of their wastes and garbage. What can we expect in this kind of indiscriminate abuse of our waterways and rivers that easily clogged and caused floods during rainy days leading to destruction of properties as well as deaths of hapless persons. In addition to this are the numerous factories that uses the waterways and rivers in discharging their toxic wastes instead of providing treatment plants to de-contaminate their toxic wastes. These industrial wastes had eliminated the entire marine life that are abundant decades agao. These kinds of citizens are creating havoc to our environment resulting to disasters like flash floods and landslides that we experienced in the pasts.
A lot of Filipinos whether private citizens or those working in the government rarely show a bit of patriotism in preserving the nature that God had given to us.
We need to act now to avoid destructing our environment before we become the next victim of disaster.
April 9th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
what we luck is discipline. we need a leader that can instill discipline to everybody. a leader with political will to implement drastic measures for everyone to follow to change our bad habits. a leader that will serve as role model for everybody. a leader that don’t lie, cheat and steal.
discipline is what we need. in japan, people segregate their trashes. they know where to put the recyclable to non-recyclable trash. they obey traffic regulations etc.
marcos almost did this during martial law when everybody follow the rules and regulations. but unfortunately, went back to normal when martial law was lifted.
April 9th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
Matsing Says:
April 8th, 2008 at 8:38 pm
OMG. GMA must be (again) blame on this responsibility.
Our lovely senators who cannot do anything right. Maybe this one is a good start. Since the trust of the pinoy’s no longer there for you. time to kick off some things for the next election. Try cleaning up the rivers di ba? Clean yourself muna before cleaning someone else’s river.
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Who else you’re going to blame but none other then the FAKE PRESIDENT GLORIA ARROYO. After all she’s the one squatting in Malacanyang Palace for over 7 year’s! Because of her the Philippines economy going down under. So much about her rosy economy. Its a joke!
April 9th, 2008 at 11:27 am
Its true that most Filipinos really dont care about their environment and just leave their trashes on the road and in public places thinking that the trash collectors will do the job of picking these trashes. These people feels that someone will do the cleaning for them but howls when the waterways are clogged. Its plain laziness for most of the Filipinos. They even have ill-reasons why these trashes ends up in the waterways and blames the govt.
The Filipinos badly needs education especially the “Masa” crowd whose usually being used by the vulture politicians for their selfish ends.
Education on the environment and population control. The govt and NGO should initiate and go directly to the masses.
April 8th, 2008 at 11:54 pm
I agree with the need to educate more, but I strongly believe education is nothing if the government does not provide facilities to throw garbage into or services that provide opportunities for people to apply what they learn. The government should invest in recycling bins, trucks that pick up recycling, and recycling facilities in general, so that people will not be forced to throw their garbage in their neighbor’s backyard!
Gel, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
April 8th, 2008 at 8:38 pm
OMG. GMA must be (again) blame on this responsibility.
Our lovely senators who cannot do anything right. Maybe this one is a good start. Since the trust of the pinoy’s no longer there for you. time to kick off some things for the next election. Try cleaning up the rivers di ba? Clean yourself muna before cleaning someone else’s river.
April 8th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
Di obra and educate, educate, educate. Creeks and rivers dicernibly used as trash depositories should be fenced with very high storm wire links. Simple.
April 8th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
I agree with you 100% But I think filipino people are more interested to learn on how to become the biggest crooks and get away with it. Just like whats going on right now. You can try to educated people but the people can’t learn anything if their leader is not teaching them the right thing. Amen: