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The landslide prompted the passage of Republic Act No. 9003 or the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000, [7] which mandates the closure of open dumpsites in the Philippines by 2004 and controlled dumpsites by 2006. [8] In 2004, the Payatas dumpsite was reconfigured as a controlled disposal facility [7] but was closed in December 2010. [9]
On 21 July 2000 a garbage mound at the Payatas Sanitary Landfill collapsed and slid through the barangay of Payatas outside Quezon City, Philippines, which resulted in the deaths of over 300 people. The tragedy resulted in the Philippine Congress banning all open-air garbage dumps throughout the country. [9]
The Payatas dumpsite, also known as the Payatas Controlled Disposal Facility (PCDF), is a former garbage dump in the barangay of the same name in Quezon City, Metro Manila, the Philippines. Originally established in the 1970s, [ 1 ] the former open dumpsite was home to scavengers who migrated to the area after the closure of the Smokey Mountain ...
The Payatas dumpsite in 2017, at the time of its permanent closure. Payatas is known for its former dumpsite, which closed in 2010. A landslide in the area led to the national legislation that banned open-ground dump sites in the Philippines. A more regulated dumping ground was established adjacent to the old landfill in 2011; the site closed ...
[1] [2] The three were survivors of the Payatas garbage slide tragedy of July 2000. [3] Although the paper boats never reached the palace, the activity, organized by an urban poor group, caught the attention of Arroyo. [1] The story of the boys moved the newly installed president, who presented them during her first State of the Nation Address ...
When Smokey Mountain closed in 1995, many scavengers migrated to the Payatas dumpsite, where another scavenging community arose. [3] A landslide at the Payatas dump in 2000 killed over two hundred scavengers. [3] As of 2007, approximately 80,000 people lived at the Payatas dump. [3] The Payatas dumpsite itself closed in 2017. [10] [11]
10 July 2000 - Payatas landslide. More than 200 people died when a large volume of garbage stored at the Payatas Dumpsite in Quezon City collapsed into nearby settlements. [148] 11 August 2006 – Guimaras oil spill.
2000 Mumbai landslide; P. Payatas landslide This page was last edited on 5 May 2019, at 21:34 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...