Baste Duterte slams DENR over mounting garbage crisis in Davao City

DAVAO CITY—Mayor Sebastian “Baste” Duterte has blamed the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) for the city’s mounting garbage crisis, pointing to the agency’s closure of the sanitary landfill in Barangay New Carmen. The suspension of landfill operations, which took effect on May 22, was triggered by a trash slide on May 20 that