EFFORTS to restore the Sure Global Waste to Worth Innovations (W2WI) Facility as a long-term solution to the 70-year-old garbage problem of Dagupan City have started.

City Mayor Belen Fernandez visited the open dumpsite in Bonuan Boquig, near Tondaligan last week with W2WI founder and Chief Executive Officer Jill Boughton for an assessment of the area.

The planned US$ 11 million W2W facility, to be established at no cost to the city government of Dagupan, can load up 30 tons of garbage daily and can convert plastic wastes into 6,000 liters of diesel fuel, and food wastes into 4,000 kilograms of methane gas.

It will be recalled that Mayor Fernandez and Sure Global W2WI entered into a memorandum of agreement on August 10, 2017 to jumpstart the project and close the open dumpsite, in compliance with Republic Act 9003 or the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act.

Ten months later,  Mayor Fernandez and Ms. Boughton led the groundbreaking of the W2W site on June 18, 2018 in Sitio Bliss, Bonuan Binloc on a portion of public land segregated in a presidential proclamation purposely for the project.

The project in fact had applied and was granted its Environmental Compliance Certificate from the Department of Environment and Natural Resources. However, the project was shelved by then Mayor Brian Lim when he succeeded Fernandez in 2019.

After regaining the mayoralty post this year, Mayor Fernandez immediately sought to revive the project to put an end to the garbage problem in her city.

She noted the principle behind the Sure Global Waste to Worth program: all waste is viewed as a resource to be recovered and used to stimulate economic development.

The concept originated from P&G – the company behind consumer brands like Safeguard, Ariel, Tide and Pampers, that aims to eliminate waste going to landfills and dumpsites through the adoption of innovative solutions. (CIO)

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