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Empty oil drums turn into garbage bins
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Posted on Jun 27 2011
Thanks to a donation from both government and private companies, villages on Saipan will have more garbage bins that will help maintain and promote a trash-free island.
Saipan and Northern Islands Municipal Council chair Ramon B. Camacho, council staff, and Neighborhood Watch Task Force Precinct 4 block captain Sebastian Tajibmai received the garbage bins at the Laolao Bay Golf Resort last Friday.
Camacho, in an interview, said the garbage bins were actually oil drums donated by the Commonwealth Utilities Corp. and Isla Petroleum & Energy, the Shell licensee on Saipan.
Camacho said these drums were cleaned, painted with “Join Neighborhood Watch,” and transported by the Department of Corrections inmates.
Other businesses also donated the paints and supplies used on the drums.
At least 20 garbage cans have already been distributed to different Neighborhood Watch villages.
“It’s considered as a community project and we’re going to continue this as more donated drums keep coming,” Camacho said.
Tajibmai said the donated garbage bins will help keep their precinct clean and litter-free. He “strongly encouraged” other businesses to help in this “excellent community project.”
Frank Camacho, block captain of the Dandan Neighborhood Watch, said Friday that they received about two weeks ago eight garbage bins that they placed at each of the four school bus stops in their village.
“This project is meant for all villages but we have a limited number of cans,” he told Saipan Tribune. “I hope and encourage other businesses to donate paints or drum cans for this worthy project.”
