As a result, the garbage generated is thrown into the river and thus the river is polluted heavily.

Other issues likely to be raised include ways of increasing recycling and reducing the amount of garbage generated in the city.

The interim plan involves using existing or new commercial transfer stations, which now take about 13,000 tons a day of garbage generated by businesses out of the city.

Haulers pick up about 40 percent of the garbage generated in the city; the Sanitation Department collects the rest.

The department estimates that it is recycling 600 of the 26,000 tons of garbage generated by the city every day.

Businesses pay 475 private haulers more than a $1 billion a year to collect their trash, which accounts for about 40 percent of the garbage generated in the city.

City officials had contended that the reduced fee would have encouraged private haulers, who handle garbage generated by businesses, to recycle.

City officials have justified the proposed change as a way to encourage private haulers, who handle garbage generated by businesses, to recycle.

The Sanitation Department collects garbage generated by households and is also responsible for picking up recyclable material separated by residences.

Taytay has a current total fleet of only ten dump trucks that regularly collect the garbage generated by its five barangays.