The Junob National High School in Barangay Talay, Dumaguete City, was tagged as “Maka-Kalikasan (Environment Friendly) by the Philippine Information Agency and the Department of the Environment and Natural Resources, in Negros Oriental, recently, a government press release said.

It was the second school to be identified as an environment-friendly campus, after the Hermenegilda National High School in Barangay Banilad, also in Dumaguete, the press release also said.

A team from the PIA and DENR had earlier held a school caravan to educate students on ways to mitigate the adverse impacts of climate change.

Junob NHS was the third campus visited by the team during its eight-day caravan to all public high schools in the city. It was declared environment-friendly, for practicing proper waste segregation and for having a materials recovery facility.

Under Republic Act 9003, MRF refers to facilities designed to receive, sort, process and store compostable and recyclable materials efficiently in an environmentally sound manner. MRF receives biodegradable waste for composting and mixed non-biodegradable wastes for final segregation, re-use and recycling, the press release said.

The school also allotted space in its agriculture garden for the sorting of biodegradable, non-biodegradable and hazardous wastes, and biodegradable trashes are then used for composting.

PIA regional director Minerva Newman, PIA-Negros Oriental infocen manager Jenny Tilos, DENR forester Sabina Silva and Dumaguete City Environment and Natural Resources Office head Reynaldo Awayan presented a streamer with the words “Ang Junob National High School ay Maka-Kalikasan” to school officials during the caravan.

Students were also encouraged to plant trees as a way of preserving the environment.

Newman led the students in reciting the Climate Change Advocacy Promise, a pledge to persuade young people to change their negative habits of improper throwing garbage and to encouragestrong commitment to become responsible stewards of the environment, the press release added.*

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