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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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