Garbage disposal has been a rampant problem in the San Juan, Batangas shoreline. This is changing in Barangay Calubcub 2.0 in San Juan, Batangas, where a group of young students from the Joseph Marello Institute have started a project that has cleaned up part of the shore. Under the supervision of Ramon Florencio “Buko Joe” Perez, Accountancy, Business, and Management (ABM) students Ericka Denniel Macatangay, Leo Ysaiah Saligao, Andrea Gabrielle Ruzgal, Mark Gerald Garcia, and Elalyn Vasquez, pushed for a cleaner Calubcub 2.0 coast. The group consulted with the local government, particularly the Municipal Environment and Natural Resources Office (MENRO) under Noelito Pasco, who suggested the Catmon and Calubcub 2.0 coasts because these two have waste disposal problems. Macatangay, Saligao, et. al. chose Calubcub 2.0 because its nearer to them than Catmon. The students decided to make trash segregation bins, called “Fishurahan,” (from ‘fish’ and ‘basurahan’ or trash can in Filipino).

Necesario, N. (2019, May 18). Students use trash bins to rescue polluted Batangas shoreline. Manila Bulletin, p. B-5.