41. The island has become heavily polluted, with trash from a nearby dumpsite washing up on its shores. 42. Sam saw streets lined with debris, residential dumpsites piled high with rubbish, gutters overflowing with raw sewage. 43. The ministry is not unaware of the problems hindering the efficient management of these dumpsites by the local authorities. 44. President Carter declared that discovering these dumpsites was " one of the grimmest discoveries of the modern era ". 45. Lingunan Controlled Dumpsite also conducted some limited waste segregation and resource recovery operations prior to burial of residual waste. 46. The transfer station was needed to process the garbage collected in the municipality before it was despatched to the dumpsite . 47. Fuad said the cost of terracing and putting out the fire at the dumpsite was expected to be quite high. 48. He said the amount involved would be " huge " because of the large area enclosing the dumpsites . 49. The dumpsite uses rice hull ash as daily cover and odor control material for the waste collected in the area. 50. Solid wastes are collected by the LGU in the urban barangays and dumped into an open dumpsite in Barangay Banga.
