THE Dagupan City government is not the least worried about reports of impending closure of the Metro Clark Sanitary Landfill in Capas, Tarlac because there is Holcim Philippines that takes most of the city’s wastes.

And if the seven majority councilors decide to subject the city’s exploratory agreement with Holcim Philippines to needless scrutiny, effectively suspending the agreement, the majority councilors will have to bear the brunt of residents’ anger whom they’ve made to suffer the stench of undelivered wastes to Holcim.

She said Dagupan is able to deliver more compacted wastes to Holcim regularly because many communities, groups and clubs provide volunteers to segregate wastes at the  dumpsite.

Mayor Belen Fernandez said Holcim takes 90 percent of Dagupan’s wastes while the remaining 10 percent are left for recycling and composting.

City Legal Officer Aurora Valle explained that the city’s agreement with Holcim is exploratory nd need no ordinance from the Sanggunian and the agreement does not require the city  government to commit a single centavo to the operations.

At the dumpsite, the city engineers office already established a procedure for phasing it out in five stages, but this was temporarily suspended after a suspicious fire in the area last summer. City hall suspected a move to sabotage the city’s waste Management project.

Meanwhile, Fernandez said she is set to hold a meeting with officials of DENR and Department of Energy to explore a new project similar to the aborted Waste to Energy project of the American-owned Sure Global. (Leonardo Micua)

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