These last two Saturdays, the Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) has been conducting a Manila Bay cleanup operation along Roxas Boulevard as part of its 43rd anniversary celebration. On November 3, the MMDA workers collected garbage that filled eight dump trucks. Last November 10, they collected another seven truckloads of garbage. The cleanup drive, which has been joined by workers of the Manila city government, will continue in the next two Saturdays of this month. We have no doubt that many more truckloads of garbage will be collected these coming Saturdays from the bay along Roxas Blvd. And if other town and city governments around Manila Bay were to join in the cleanup drive, the entire nation might wake up to the fact that the whole of Manila Bay has become a cesspool, much more than Boracay when President Duterte ordered it closed down for rehabilitation six months ago.

Plastics and other garbage in Manila Bay. (2018, November 14). Manila Bulletin, p. 8.