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The President made a brief inspection of a portion of the Manila Bay shorelines on Friday morning as part of her weekly environmental advocacy. She also visited the Manila Ocean Park at the Rizal Park.
Manila Bay is considered to be one of the best natural harbors in Southeast Asia and one of the finest in the world. It has an area of 1,994 square kilometers, a coastline of 190 kilometers and the entrance is 19 kilometers wide.
Corregidor Island divides the entrance into two channels, about 3.2 kilometers towards the north and 10.5 kilometers wide on the south side. Mariveles, in the province of Bataan, is an anchorage just inside the northern entrance and Sangley Point is the former location of Cavite Naval Base.
On either side of the bay are volcanic peaks topped with tropical foliage: 40 kilometers to the north is the Bataan Peninsula and to the south is the province of Cavite.
Viewing the Manila Bay from the Rizal Park, the Chief Executive was very much disappointed to see trash floating on the water, so she decided to meet with the Manila Bay Environmental Management Project (MBEMP) officials.
MBEMP is a local component of the Regional Programme on Building Partnerships in Environmental Management for the Seas of East Asia.
It is a United Nations Development Program (UNDP)-funded project with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) as the host institution in the Philippines and the International Maritime Organization (IMO) as the executing agency.
It is developing and implementing an Operational Plan for Manila Bay Coastal Strategy (OPMBCS) in partnership with national government agencies and stakeholders both from public and private sectors.
The President also met with Presidential Assistant for Global Warming and Climate Change Secretary Heherson T. Alvarez, DENR Secretary Jose L. Atienza and Manila Mayor Alfredo S. Lim.
It was also like a reunion of sorts for Lim and Atienza, who is a former Manila mayor himself.
The President led the officials in taking a walk in the park, after which they inspected the Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) and conducted a meeting on climate change.
During the meeting, she told the officials to step up their campaign against climate change and cited the importance of the participation of local government units (LGUs) in efforts to fight global warming.
?We want the contribution of local governments in the fight against climate change because this is a serious matter. If Florida in the United States might lose a coastline, we might lose a nation,? she said.
She likewise urged Mayor Lim to maintain the MRF, a specialized plant that receives, separates and prepares recyclable materials for marketing to end-user manufacturers.
?We must be able to transform biodegradable garbage to compost or fertilizer or convert non-biodegradable wastes such as plastic to tiles,? the President said.
She noted that the costs of MRFs range from less than P200,000 to P2 million.
?There is a scale of an MRF that can be used for every financial capability of every barangay depending on how simple or complicated the MRF could be,? she said.
The MRF is part of the implementation of Republic Act No. 9003, or the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000. It is also in line with the Green Movement Agenda, a government program geared towards an integrated approach to environmental management from the uplands to the coastal areas.
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