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DENR hails Pasig LGU as champion in solid waste, ISF management

Published Mar 25, 2023 08:14 am
The Pasig City local government won three major awards in the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) “Gawad Taga-Ilog 3.0: Search for the Most Improved Estero in Metro Manila” awarding ceremony on Friday, March 24, in Quezon City. It won the champion titles for both the Solid Waste Management (SWM) and Informal Settler Families (ISFs) and Illegal Structures Management categories. Based on the criteria for the SWM category, Pasig was recognized for its fully functional barangay SWM committee, materials recovery facility (MRF), implementation of information, education, and communication (IEC) campaigns, and regular cleanups. For the ISF category, the city received praise for the absence of ISFs and illegal structures in the city’s legal easements, maintenance of cleared areas, policies to prevent illegal entrants, census tagging and validation operations, as well as the overall number of ISFs and illegal structures occupying the city’s waterways. (Pasig PIO / MANILA BULLETIN)
The part of the Pasig River located in Barangay Pineda also won the first runner-up spot in the Gawad Taga-Ilog Search for the Most Improved Estero category. Barangay Pineda was chosen as the city’s sole representative after it won the local government’s Pag-Asa Award ng Kalikasan 2022 as the Best in Compliance to the Manila Bay Clean Up, Rehabilitation and Restoration Program (MBCRRP). Pasig City Environment and Natural Resources Office (CENRO) and Solid Waste Management Office (SWMO) Officer-in-Charge Allendri B. Angeles, as well as Barangay Pineda Captain Frankie De Leon led the local government delegation who received the awards in the ceremony. The city government has intensified its dredging and cleaning operations of waterways in the city as part of its greening policies. Some areas surrounding the waterways have been beautified and transformed into parks such as  the [Pineda Linear Park](https://mb.com.ph/2022/8/13/pasig-lgu-prcmo-begin-interagency-rehabilitation-drive-for-pineda-linear-park), [Buting Linear Park](https://mb.com.ph/2022/07/26/pasig-inaugurates-new-linear-park-under-adopt-a-park-project/), and [Bitukang Manok Linear Park](https://mb.com.ph/2023/01/18/bitukang-manok-linear-park-opens-in-pasig-city/) to increase green spaces in Pasig, reconnect communities to nature and maintain the river. (Pasig PIO / MANILA BULLETIN)
Gawad Taga-Ilog is an annual awards event by the DENR-National Capital Region (NCR) that recognizes and honors the efforts of local governments in their environmental programs and initiatives. It aims to encourage the local governments to actively participate and implement projects that will clean and maintain the small and big waterways within their territories in order to reduce water pollution. The cleansing of rivers and canals in Metro Manila is part of the Manila Bay Clean Up, Rehabilitation and Restoration of the DENR. Other awards conferred in the ceremony were for categories including liquid waste management, habitat and resource management, and sustainability and partnership management. The awarding body evaluated the local governments’ performances from November 2022 to February 2023.

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