A total of 420 kilograms of garbage have been unloaded on June 10-12, 2014 during the inter-LGU simultaneous Mt. Apo Natural Park (MANP) clean up drive. The trashes include empty bottles of wines and soft drinks, plastic, empty cans and containers and cellophanes.
Some 36 volunteer delegates from Sta. Cruz have climbed Mt. Apo on the said dates to join the clean up drive as spearheaded by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), Protected Area Management Board (PAMB) Ecotourism Committee, B+WISER and LGUs of Kidapawan, Makilala, Magpet, Davao City, Bansalan and Digos City.
The activity is part of the advocacy of DENR-PAMB to send a message to the mountaineering community to climb responsibly and free the mountain of garbage which had been a perennial problem in Mt. Apo for the past years.