Legarda said on Sunday she was planning to pick up litter in the streets to show people that "we need not look far and wide" in looking for solution of problems to the environment.
She mentioned the Solid Waste Management law, which she authored and which provided for local government units to be responsible for the disposal of garbage in their respective backyards.
“I am going to set the example and pick up litter,'' she said in a phone interview. “There should be less talk. Let's just do things.''
The senator, who was a successful broadcast journalist before she entered politics, said she was known to be prickly about litter in her former office.
She said she would pick up candy wrappers or trash if she spotted them.
Legarda said she was very much moved with what she saw during an inspection of lakeshore towns in
“It was pitiful and an eye opener,” she said as she recalled seeing for instance dead rats drifting in the still flooded waters of poor communities she visited during the weekend.
Legarda visited Lupang Arenda, a reclaimed former dumpsite situated in the Taytay-Pasig border, and which experts recently said was in danger of being swallowed up along with some 6,000 families living there should an earthquake happen there.
The land there was prone to liquefaction and experts said the former dumpsite could suffer the fate of a community in Dagupan during the 1991 earthquake where buildings and other structures collapsed.
“These are really subhuman conditions and we should really get them out of there,” Legarda said.
Source:http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/nation/view/20091018-230778/Loren-to-set-example-by-picking-litter-on-streets
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Loren to set example by picking litter on streets
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment