{"id":349187,"date":"2021-08-04T06:00:38","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T20:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=349187"},"modified":"2021-08-04T06:00:38","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T20:00:38","slug":"pdm-promoters-appeal-to-businesses-to-have-own-trash-bins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/pdm-promoters-appeal-to-businesses-to-have-own-trash-bins\/","title":{"rendered":"PDM Promoters appeal to businesses to have own trash bins"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_349188\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-349188\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/PDM-pix-1.jpg\" alt=\"PDM Promoters volunteers\" width=\"600\" height=\"311\" class=\"size-full wp-image-349188\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-349188\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A total of 17 volunteers from PDM Promoters, Inc. collected 1,540 lbs of trash during their monthly cleanup in the environs around Paseo de Marianas last Saturday. (Contributed photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>PDM Promoters, Inc. is appealing to food establishments in Saipan\u2019s tourist district to install their own trash bins after their cleanup last July 24 yielded 1,540 lbs of rubbish, some of which were Styrofoam food containers.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 17 volunteers\u201410 Saipan Awaodori Team members and seven Kinpachi Restaurant staff\u2014took part in the cleanup, according to PDM Promoters coordinator Sonia Siwa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCloudy skies and rain did not stop our volunteers from doing the scheduled cleanup. They braved the rain to rake the bushes and clear the place of trash. With COVID-19, we actually saw an increase of single-use plastics, masks, gloves, and other trash that we\u2019re finding now. We also found piles of trash lined up in between the business establishment buildings,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Siwa appealed to businesses at Paseo de Marianas to do the right thing by placing garbage bins near their establishments to encourage the public to dispose of their trash properly. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are asking cooperation from the businesses to have their own trash bins for their trash disposal. \u2026We also encourage the public to pick up the litter while they are walking, which is one way of volunteering in cleaning up the environment,\u201d she said.   <\/p>\n<p>PDM Promoters\u2019 monthly cleanups are held every Saturday and are supported by the Bureau of Environmental and Coastal Quality and the non-profit\u2019s major sponsors, T-Galleria and TSL Foundation.<br \/>\nSiwa said T-Galleria and TSL Foundation\u2019s support enables them to have the cleaning materials needed for their cleanups. Kinpachi Restauran provides the meal and snacks for volunteers.<\/p>\n<p>Volunteers of PDM Promoters will be at it again in August when it conducts its next monthly cleanup of 2021. <strong>(Saipan Tribune)<\/strong><em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PDM Promoters, Inc. is appealing to food establishments in Saipan\u2019s tourist district to install their&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":349189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}