What A Load of Garbage!

Comments from a reader on Subic’s Garbage Problems:

Much of the garbage that washes ashore on Subic Bay’s beaches is either enclosed in tied off garbage bags, or is the ripped open remnants of tied off garbage bags. This struck me as odd, until I realized that what I was seeing was the end result of an apparently prevalent local method of garbage disposal—put it in a plastic bag, tie off the bag so the bag floats, and toss the bag into the nearest river. Apparently some people find it satisfying to watch their garbage disappear from sight as it floats around a bend in the river. Out of sight, out of mind.

On another front, I have been reading that SBMA, feeling constrained by its current geographical limits, is seeking to extend its writ into Olongapo. It strikes me an opportunity for synergy is presented by this impulse on some people’s part to bag garbage, and SBMA’s expansionist tendencies.

I have yet to read in the Bulletin any complaints about SBMA’s garbage pickup. My own experience with these gentlemen has been uniformly positive. Other the other hand my experience with SBMA, when it comes to fulfilling its obligation to clean the beaches, has been uniformly negative.

It seems to me that money supposedly spent to clean the beaches would be better spent on a bounty on filled garbage bags, which could be paid by SBMA sanitary workers patrolling Olongapo’s riverside districts.

I expect that the residents of these areas would forego the thrill of watching their garbage disappear around the bend if given only a little financial incentive

THE SUBIC BULLETIN: From another reader here is the complaint about SBMA's garbage pickup that you were looking for:

NO GARBAGE PICKUP IN BINICTICAN

For some reason, SBMA is not picking up garbage in Binictican Housing as scheduled and paid for by residents. For several times in just the past couple of months, garbage trucks are not picking up garbage in Binictican housing. When the office is called they deny that garbage is not being picked up, but many blocks have missed pickup even though the trash sits on the street all day.

It's was noticeable when SBMA stopped picking up trash with garbage trucks, then dump trucks and now nothing. Are their trucks dead now along with many of the other trucks belonging to SBMA, like police and maintenance vehicles?

Infrastructure is crumbling before our eyes in the Freeport and it seems like nothing is being done by SBMA to fix it! We are paying for service that we are not getting now. SBMA please do your job! Is this the premier freeport that you advertise?

THE SUBIC BULLETIN: Fact is the amount charged by SBMA is a revenue stream not the cost of collecting garbage, nevertheless they have generally been responsive to this issue when you call them, any lack of pickup is usually not intentional.