{"id":214738,"date":"2019-05-17T22:46:21","date_gmt":"2019-05-18T02:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=214738"},"modified":"2019-05-17T22:46:21","modified_gmt":"2019-05-18T02:46:21","slug":"200-tons-of-poll-campaign-trash-collected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/05\/17\/200-tons-of-poll-campaign-trash-collected\/","title":{"rendered":"200 tons of poll campaign trash collected"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_201755\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-201755\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/election-388312_960_720.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-201755\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/election-388312_960_720.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/election-388312_960_720.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/election-388312_960_720-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/election-388312_960_720-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/election-388312_960_720-20x15.jpg 20w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-201755\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In a statement on Friday, the MMDA said its Metro Parkway Clearing Group (MPCG) hauled campaign trash in the metropolis from March 1 to May 16. (Pixabay Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) has collected 29 truckloads equivalent to 200.37 tons of discarded election-related materials in Metro Manila.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Friday, the MMDA said its Metro Parkway Clearing Group (MPCG) hauled campaign trash in the metropolis from March 1 to May 16.<\/p>\n<p>The collected trash reached 23.42 tons on May 14; some 14.45 tons on May 15; and 17.08 tons on May 16 from major thoroughfares and the vicinity of public schools in Metro Manila during post-election clearing operations by the MPCG.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe campaign materials will not be thrown away at landfills but will be converted to bags, place mats, baskets, school supplies, and other useful items,\u201d MMDA Chairman Danilo Lim said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEnvironmental groups who want to recycle the campaign materials may coordinate with the agency,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>A task force was created by the Commission on Elections (Comelec), MMDA, Department of Public Works and Highways, and the Philippine National Police for \u201cOplan Baklas\u201d to remove illegal campaign materials.<\/p>\n<p>More than 100 MMDA personnel participated in the taking down and removal of campaign materials in major thoroughfares and several public schools in Metro Manila.<\/p>\n<p>The collection of campaign trash for this year\u2019s elections was lower compared to the 2016 elections wherein campaign materials gathered reached 206 tons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) has collected 29 truckloads equivalent to 200.37 tons of discarded election-related materials in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":201755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-aerol-john-patena","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214739,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214738\/revisions\/214739"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}