Rains, engineering failure among possible causes of Philippines landfill landslide, says Mines and Geosciences Bureau

Search and retrieval operations continue for missing workers at the collapsed waste management facility in Binaliw, Cebu city, central Philippines, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026. - AP

LAPU-LAPU CITY, Cebu: Weeks of periodic rain and poor engineering of waste piles may have caused the Binaliw landfill landslide, according to a report by the Mines and Geosciences Bureau in Central Visayas (MGB-7).

The findings came after a site inspection by the MGB-7, an agency under the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), on Friday (Jan 9), following the collapse of the sanitary landfill facility in Barangay Binaliw, Cebu City.