Mayors support common waste management plan
FIVE mayors of the 4th District, along with Rep. Gina de Venecia, are studying the option to construct, without cost to the local governments, an Integrated Solid Waste Facility called “Waste 2 Worth” that will convert wastes into electricity.
The five mayors are Belen Fernandez of Dagupan, Bona Fe De Vera-Parayno of Mangaldan, Constante Agbayani of San Fabian, Robert de Vera of San Jacinto and Kim Amador of Manaoag.
The mayors or their representatives and staff of De Venecia met last July 16 in Dagupan with Clint Navales, Country Communications Manager of Procter & Gamble Distributing (Phils), Inc., proprietor of the “Waste 2 Worth” technology.
Navales explained that P&G owns the technology and has found partners to build the facility in areas which can turn in at least 250 metric tons of garbage daily that will be mechanically separated, compressed and turned into slurry to produce gas and eventually electricity through a system called thermalization.
The plant site, he added, will be odorless and would look like a shopping mall unlike sanitary landfills.
He said P&G already found two technology companies in Manila that agreed to merge in order to invest in the project once LGUs are identified that produce the minimum daily waste requirement and willing to allocate a rent-free minimum land space of two hectares.
De Vera-Parayno offered to host the facility in Mangaldan, citing three potential sites.
The 250 metric tons of garbage is capable of producing four to five megawatts of clean energy, which can be sold and from where the operator can have a return of investment, projected to come within three and a half years after start of operations.
Navales said while P & G is more popularly known as a manufacturer of consumer goods, it has also invested in research and development for waste management solutions, particularly in developing countries such as the Philippines.
“We are only the facilitator but we will not make a single dollar in the project,” Navales said
It was Dagupan’s Fernandez who invited P&G to present the waste disposal technology, with the city alone producing 150 metric tons of garbage per day.
P&G last year donated 150 laptop computers to the Lucao Elementary School in Dagupan upon the request of then vice mayor Fernandez.
Navales said if the project pushes through, it will be the first Integrated Solid Waste Technology not only in the Philippines but the whole of Asia.
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