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Machine to lessen Bontoc garbage

BONTOC, Mountain Province -- Mayor Franklin C. Odsey here made good with his promise to modernize waste management and improve peace and order program of this town with the recent delivery of a garbage compactor for the municipal garbage crew and one motorcycle for the police.

“ Like what we have been advocating and in compliance with the modernization policy of this administration particularly on waste management and the maintenance of peace and order, the LGU was able to secure one unit garbage truck compactor and one unit motor cycle”, he said.

Local folk who noticed the delivery of the two vehicles said people should now cooperate and start to segregate their respective wastes before being taken in to the machine.

Engineer John Fang-asan, municipal garbage crew foreman upon learning of the new garbage truck equipped with compactor said the machine will be of great help in their day-to-day garbage collection operation especially that the lone municipal garbage truck was dilapidated.

Police Chief Julio Lizardo thanked Bontokc officials for the patrol motorcycle. “With this including the communication systems previously provided by the same LGU, it will greatly contribute in the traffic patrol and other related police operations.”

The town’s waste problem had become an important concern of the local government due to increasing population explosion brought about by the student enrollees. -- Rommel L. Lengwa