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Task Force submits recommendations for the Marianas’ first Universal Garbage Collection system

December 31, 2021 Håfa Adai yan Tirow Wóómi! It has been 90 days of research and information gathering for the Universal Garbage...

December 24, 2021 Last week’s Trash Talk column discussed how trash is everybody’s business. Similarly coined is the Marianas Visitors...

December 16, 2021 Trash is everybody’s business. Over the last few months in this column, the Universal Garbage Collection (UGC) Task...

December 10, 2021 Trash. It’s everywhere – along our beaches, buried underneath the soil, in our ocean, and illegally dumped in various...

December 2, 2021 This week I had the honor of meeting our CNMI trash collection companies to share with them the Universal Garbage...

November 25, 2021 In last week’s column, Hon. Mayor Efraim M. Atalig shared that one of the greatest challenges in Rota’s solid waste...

November 18, 2021 Last week, I took a trip to Rota and sat down with Honorable Mayor Efraim M. Atalig, Mayor of Rota, to discuss his...

November 11, 2021 The other day someone asked me why it is important for the Marianas to develop a universal garbage collection plan now....

November 4, 2021 Recently on social media, a resident posted a photo depicting bags of trash dumped at her family member’s grave. She was...

October 28, 2021 Let’s talk trash, but no filthy words, only rubbish talk. We should start with a clear picture of our current garbage...