Typhoons, floods, waste

Everyone knows that whenever there are rains and floods, everyone's dirty, stinky, harmful waste are all over, clogging outlets, drainages and streets affecting the health of children and adults, of communities.

- Cherry Piquero-Ballescas

May every typhoon, heavy rain and floods awaken everyone to see before their eyes the harm that their own garbage brings. And may the next typhoon, heavy rain, floods see less garbage, more responsible waste management from all.

Lessons can be learned from every typhoon and flood we experience. May each lesson learned bring us closer as a people and encourage us to form a working, collaborative multisectoral/multilevel public-private team/network better equipped to manage disaster and waste each time.

The present participatory, multisectoral, multilevel inclusive approach for waste management of Mayor Archival is a positive step not only to solve the garbage problem but also those resulting from floods and disaster.

Active Church partnership, led by Cebu Archbishop Abet, is a very crucial key factor for solving waste, flood and typhoon-related problems as well!

Involvement for disaster and waste management of civil society organizations, business/industry, academe, all other sectors should by now be tested, and implemented for effective, timely response when need arises.