Published July 8, 2021, 9:58 AM
CEBU CITY – The Department of Environment and Natural Resources in Region 7 (Central Visayas) (DENR-7) on Wednesday shut down a garbage transfer station in the former sanitary landfill in Barangay Inayawan here for failure to dispose waste within 24 hours, and slapped the operator with P105,000 fine.
Paquito Melicor Jr., officer in charge regional director of DENR-7, sent a notice of violation coupled with cease and desist order to John Javier, owner of Docast Construction, a private garbage hauler hired by the Cebu City government to transport waste materials from the transfer station in Inayawan to the sanitary landfill in Barangay Binaliw, still in this city.