DENR collects 39,000 kilos of waste from Corregidor Island
Clean-up to beef up Manila Bay rehab in Central Luzon
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO – The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) collected 39,000 kilos of waste from a recent cleanup activity held at the northern part of the Corregidor Island.
The activity is in support of the intensified effort of the government to clean and rehabilitate the Manila Bay.
Paquito Moreno, Jr., executive director of the DENR in Central Luzon, stressed that the initiative aimed to keep the Corregidor shoreline clean, as this serves as the entry point of the Manila Bay in the southern part of Region 3.
“Through this initiative, we are preventing waste from reaching our jurisdiction, especially those which may be carried in our shorelines during high tides,” Moreno said.
Solid waste usually composed of styrofoam, food wrappers, packaging materials, plastic bottles, fishing nets, ropes, and slippers were collected by the DENR, together with partners from Philippine Coastguard Station in Lamao and Corregidor Island, Philippine Navy, Philippine Marine Corps Coastal Defense Regiment, Corregidor Foundation Inc., Philippine Ports Authority, Philippine Information Agency in Bataan, Municipal Environment and Natural Resources Office of Mariveles, and Barangay Lamao in Limay.
Corregidor Island is part of the CALABARZON region, but it is geographically nearer to Mariveles, Bataan, only three nautical miles away from Barangay Mt. View.
The DENR here continues to urge the public to properly segregate their waste at home to protect river systems in the region from pollution.
Since the Manila Bay cleanup and rehabilitation program commenced in 2019, the DENR here has collected more than 18 million kilos of wastes from 8,722 cleanup activities conducted in Bataan.
The province is part of the 190-length of the Manila Bay area in Region 3. Of this, 78 kilometers are part of the coastline of Bataan.
