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| photo from Mayor Arman Dimaguila Facebook page |
Turning tragedy into opportunity.
That is what Biñan City LGU did after being affected by the eruption of Taal Volcano.
In a Facebook post of Biñan City Mayor Arman Dimaguila, he shared how they collected the ashes from the Taal Eruption to their materials recovery facility and converted it into eco-bricks.
According to Dimaguila, he instructed the people of Biñan not to water down the ashes and just put them in sacks so that it will not clog down their canals and drainage.
"Ashfall to bricks!! Kaya kailangan nating isako ang mga ito at hindi makabara sa ating mga canal,"Dimaguila wrote.
[“We need to put [the ash] into sacks so that it doesn’t end up clogging the canals,” said the Mayor.]
Biñan is one of the Cities in Calabarzon affected by the ashfall from Taal Eruption last January 12.
Meanwhile, in a Rappler interview with Binan's local government officer Fatima Nona Alon, she said that the city has been producing eco-bricks since 2016, as part of its local waste intervention program.
Since then, the bricks produced by the MRF have been used to build facilities and classrooms in Biñan.
“Before we used plastics in producing bricks, but then when Taal Volcano erupted we thought of using volcanic ash to produce them,” Alon said.
Meanwhile, in a Rappler interview with Binan's local government officer Fatima Nona Alon, she said that the city has been producing eco-bricks since 2016, as part of its local waste intervention program.
Since then, the bricks produced by the MRF have been used to build facilities and classrooms in Biñan.
“Before we used plastics in producing bricks, but then when Taal Volcano erupted we thought of using volcanic ash to produce them,” Alon said.
