Unilever offers to receive Dagupan plastic wastes
SEGREGATION of wastes from source will be further intensified in Dagupan following the offer of Unilever to accommodate plastic wastes in the city to be converted into plywood.
Mayor Belen Fernandez ordered the 31 barangay captains to require households to strictly comply with segregation of wastes in response to the offer of Unilever to accommodate plastics wastes from Dagupan provided that the end-product, plywood, is turned over to the city for free.
She had ordered a strict “No segregation, no Collection” policy in all households and prohibited the entry of any truck delivering unsegregated wastes to the city’s controlled dumpsite in Bonuan.
Fernandez bared the offer of Unilever during the “Goodbye Basura” Summit last week at e-Library Center on Bonifacio Street, attended by barangay captains and Sangguniang Kabataan heads from 31 barangays of Dagupan, and other stakeholders.
She said the offer of Unilever is a big boon to the city, like its exploratory tie-up with Holcim Philippines, where it already delivered 70 tons of segregated compacted wastes to be converted into cement.
On the city’s tie-up with Holcim, more compacted wastes could have been delivered if the city has more dump trucks, instead of only one, to deliver the compacted wastes to Holcim cement plant in Norzagaray, Bulacan.
Dagupan is also delivering the wastes that are not composted and recycled to the Metro Clark Sanitary Landfill in Capas, Tarlac.
According to Fernandez, Unilever will accommodate plastic bottles of shampoos, household and office implements.
To achieve these, she again asked the seven majority in the Sangguniang Panlungsod to finally approve and pass the Supplemental Budget No. 2-2024 that allocates funding for four dump trucks, one backhoe and one payloader badly needed for more efficient waste management.
Fernandez thanked members of civic organizations and groups volunteering to segregate wastes at the dumpsite with the city providing breakfast of coffee and pandesal so that the city can keep up its commitment to deliver more compacted wastes to Holcim. (Leonardo Micua)
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