Remove the Trash, Kill the Rats

After the flood, the plague came to wreak havoc to the people affected by Typhoon Ondoy.  The plague came by the name of leptospirosis.
The back to back attack of the flood and leptospirosis is the end result of the waste mismanagement and blatant throwing of garbage to the streets and waterways. The flood is partly [...]

Lessons from Typhoon Ondoy

Just weeks after typhoon Ondoy visited the country, many of the Metro Manila folks are back to their old habit, which is the blatant disregard of the proper disposal of garbage. Citizens of Metro Manila are back at placing their garbage anywhere. A good example is the whole length of Commonwealth Avenue. People living around [...]

Pasig River as a Litmus Test of Filipino Lifestyle

This scene baffles me every morning when I walk the stretch of Jones Bridge to go to my office. The mystery that my mind always thinks about is those water lilies that are floating toward the Manila Bay. Where were those lilies came from? How many water lilies are there alive in all the rivers [...]

Cities of Garbage

The cities of Metro Manila were once again taken as hostage when the provincial government of Rizal decided to stop taking in their garbage. Heaps of uncollected wastes are scattered throughout the Metro. Some of those heaps were located on the major thoroughfares like that on EDSA between the Ayala and Magallanes MRT stations in [...]