The beauty that Baguio displays attracted people to migrate and live in Baguio, which constitutes to the rapid increase of birth rate. The mountainous trash in Irisn Dumpsite, and the house-filled mountains that replaces the pine trees is a picture of evidence that the beauty Baguio is shedding is slowly getting lost. Concerned citizens, and different organizations are working at a fast pace to help save Baguio and one of which is the GARBAGE problem.

         Baguio’s landfill is situated at Irisan Dumpsite just below Tuba, Benguet. Due to rapid increase of trash, the dumpsite had gone up to the heavens. With these, during rainy days, the polluted water flows down to Tuba polluting their waters. These made the residents from Tuba very angry. For years, they had petitioned the City Hall and City Mayors to give attention to their problem but sadly, they are ignored. With their wrath, they had come up with a plan to use HUMAN BARRICADE to block the dump trucks in entering the dumpsite and do their usual routines. This aroused the city officials to turn and face their ignored petitions. Now, the residents from Tuba continue to refuse to allow dump trucks to enter the site. And this made Baguio problematic about garbage. The mayor ordered the closure of the dumpsite and for almost two weeks, residents and business managements are forced to take care of their garbage for a while, while they are planning to negotiate and plead for other cities to welcome Baguio’s garbage.  With these two weeks time, Baguio appears to be the trash can of the north. Garbage were scattered every where and undisciplined people left their waste to rot and dominate the pine-scented city to be foul smelling.

          Temporary arrangements were made to cater this garbage problem, Baguio negotiated with Tarlac to welcome Baguio’s garbage but it will cost Baguio           60, 500 000 pesos for six months to haul the garbage from Irisan and transfer it to Tarlac. A law is also released that garbage segregation is imposed and garbage collectors will not accept unsegregated wastes from barangays. It sounds absurd but looking at the situation, the immediate plan is the best; the city officials came up with an engineered sanitary landfill for Baguio, and released a publication that the city will bid and buy a place from land owners to offer their lot for the landfill. But this time, while the engineered sanitary landfill is not yet at hand, Baguio will be throwing money at other cities just to cater to our garbage.