(Greenpeace statement on the construction of the San Mateo landfill)
Greenpeace Southeast Asia Toxics Campaigner Beau Baconguis said:
1. Location. San Mateo is located within the Marikina Watershed Reservation and the larger Laguna Lake Water Basin. Any waste facility located within the municipality therefore poses serious pollution threats to the groundwater sources and surrounding river systems such as the Marikina River which feeds into Laguna Lake.
2. Establishing a sanitary landfill within the Marikina watershed will severely compromise the water quality of surrounding water sources and Laguna Lake as well as the health of communities that depend on them. Even so-called 'sanitary landfills' create toxic leachates which escape into the environment and contaminate air, soil and water.
3. "The San Mateo landfill clearly flouts Presidential Proclamation No. 2146 which declares watershed reserves as environmentally critical areas, as well as section 40e of the Ecological Solid Waste Management Law (Republic Act 9003) which states that the location of a landfill must not 'detrimentally affect environmentally sensitive resources such as aquifer, groundwater reservoir or watershed area'.
4. "Greenpeace is therefore calling for an immediate stop to the construction of the San Mateo waste facility as an urgent and much needed step to protect the country's dwindling freshwater resources. What is needed is for waste reduction, segregation at source and recycling, as mandated in the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act, to be seriously implemented in order to address the waste issue and the need for landfills eliminated."
Last year pa ko tinitext ni Carlo (a friend of mine na greenpeace member) about this. Sa palagay ko ay kailangan ngang itigil ang construction ng Landfill sapagkat mayroon itong negative consequences; una, nakasalalay ang kalusugan ng mamayan ng Rizal at ikalawa, labag ito sa batas pangkalikasan. Sana lang ay lubos na maintindihan ng mga nasa posisyon ang mga negatibong posibilidad kasi ako na simpleng mamamayan naiintindihan ko yun..bakit kaya sila di nila maintindihan yun? ?!? P!@#$% mga b@#$!!! Kainin nyo sarili nyong basura...d!@#$%!!!! Mga b@su$%^& u$%^&!
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