DAGUPAN CITY’S partnership with Holcim Philippines is set to start next week with the initial delivery of  a truckload of compacted plastic wastes to the Holcim cement plant in Bulacan.

This was announced by Mayor Belen Fernandez who said the initial volume will be sourced from one room at the dumpsite where she kept compacted plastic wastes in her previous administration intended for processing for the  aborted Sure Global Waste to Energy project.

She said an old bailing machine at the dumpsite which was never used by the past Lim administration will be repaired and be used extensively in compacting plastic and solid wastes.

Fernandez considers the coming of Holcim to Dagupan as a big blessing to the city because of its mountain of garbage that accumulated at the dumpsite in Bonuan over decades.

Key officials of Holcim were in Dagupan last week to inform the city government of their company’s Cement Kim Co-Processing technology that can convert garbage into industrial fuel for the manufacture of cement.

The mayor expressed confidence the Dagupan’s partnership with Holcim will finally help eliminate the mountain of garbage that accumulated at the city’s dump site since the 1950s.

Fernandez was forced to find another partner for its waste disposal project after Sure Global that pledged to build a $15 million ‘waste-to-energy’ facility at no cost to the city government, withdrew its commitment when the past Lim administration refused to comply with the terms agreed upon with her administration in 2021.

With the plastic wastes fully compacted, these can be loaded easily on a truck that will deliver to the cement plant of Holcim in Bulacan, Fernandez said. (Holcim’s technology will also accept linoleum, tarpaulin, styro foam, slippers, shoes, paper, except metals, glasses and toxic wastes.

Because of the terms of the city’s partnership with Holcim, Fernandez ordered the City Waste Management Division that henceforth the dumpsite in Bonuan will no longer accept unsegregated wastes.

Fernandez also met barangay captains to strictly implement the segregation of household wastes in their homes before these are collected to their designated material waste facility. She also met with officials of malls, supermarkets, grocery stores and informed them of the strict implementation of the city’s mandatory waste segregation policy.

Fernandez believes the city can deliver 40 tons of the daily 60 tons delivered to the dumpsite to Holcim for its conversion into fuel for its use.

Fernandez said that aside from accommodating Dagupan wastes, Holcim Philippines will also donate cement bags to the city for its use in some of its infrastructure projects. (Leonardo Micua)

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