I love the feel & smell of cool fresh breeze during mornings whether by the beach, just inside our home or in the yard. Alas, an elderly neighbor who lives a few houses away from mine has this nasty habit of burning his garbage during early mornings ; spoiling my period of short calm before I start the day. But the Old Man's garbage burning ways is more of a rule here-- on this part of the world-- than an exemption, burning of garbage early morning or late afternoon is a nasty habit of the local populace. I don't know if these people knew that if you burn those garbage then you just convert those garbage from its solid form to its gas form or in plain term as someone in ANC quip "nilipat mo lang ang basura sa hangin", between the two it's plain common sense which is more toxic.
The bad thing is even Government employees or Government itself resolved their garbage problem by burning it. I don't know who's their idiotic supervisor is but I remember cursing him or her under my breath during a rare dawn run in the municipal plaza. Every drum cum garbage bins place strategically around the oval were being burned creating a thick smog engulfing the plaza, inducing a cough reminiscent of my ganja puffing days.
Even some local educators adapted this moronic ways, during one of my Saturday morning sojourns at the beach, I chanced upon CAT students of OMNC--I don't know if they are from the main campus or the satellite campuses--gathering garbages like driftwoods, plastic cups carelessly thrown away by taho eaters and other plastic garbages irresponsible citizens bought or brought at the beach. After the activity mounds of burning garbages now lined the beach, emitting fumes in the air! Ruining my rare intake of salty air and more importantly defeating their purpose of trying to clean the environment.
Even some local educators adapted this moronic ways, during one of my Saturday morning sojourns at the beach, I chanced upon CAT students of OMNC--I don't know if they are from the main campus or the satellite campuses--gathering garbages like driftwoods, plastic cups carelessly thrown away by taho eaters and other plastic garbages irresponsible citizens bought or brought at the beach. After the activity mounds of burning garbages now lined the beach, emitting fumes in the air! Ruining my rare intake of salty air and more importantly defeating their purpose of trying to clean the environment.
These small yet significant & yet nasty things keep on happening amidst the passage of Clean Air Act, the law lobbied by Greenpeace Philippines which won Goldman Enviromental Prize award for their Campaign Director now Greenpeace Southeast Asia Campaign Director Von Hernandez. But alas like any existing Philippine Law, just or unjust, the problem as always is on its implementation.
