Las Piñas declares major roads as trash-free zones

MANILA, Philippines - Las Piñas City Mayor Imelda “Mel” Aguilar yesterday declared Zapote-Alabang Road and other major roads in the city as zero-garbage zones.

Bantay Tapon Basura volunteers have been deputized to arrest anyone caught throwing garbage along these roads. Violators will be fined P500 and jailed from 10 to 30 days, she said.

Aguilar advised residents and business establishments along the city’s major roads to dispose of their garbage only at 3 a.m. and 8 a.m. each day.

She also asked residents to practice waste segregation to reduce the volume of garbage.

More than 1,000 volunteers, called the Kaagapay sa Kalinisan at Kagandahan ng Las Piñas, in the city’s 20 barangays have been deployed to clean up and beautify the streets by landscaping and creating mini-parks in open spaces.