Dagupan's waste to energy facility up soon, says mayor
- Source: http://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/997447
- Sunday, July 2, 2017
- By Leonardo V. Micua (PNA)
DAGUPAN CITY -- Mayor Belen Fernandez said the upcoming Waste to Energy project here set to convert garbage into diesel fuel and biogas is expected to make Dagupan City one of the cleanest cities in Region 1 soon.
In a press conference at 4:00 p.m. Monday, Fernandez said the selection committee to the waste management facility-joint venture project already published in a local newspaper a notice to private companies interested to build the project at no cost at all to the city.
"Unless we put up the waste to energy facility, we cannot hope to compete for the cleanest local government unit in the region," she said.
Fernandez said she attended a meeting of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation in Cebu, the United Nations in the United States and an international meeting of the Ocean Conservancy in Chile last year to make sure that such project will come to Dagupan City.
The project will be built somewhere in Barangay Binloc.
Assured that the project is coming, the city is now compacting plastic at its plant in Bonuan, all of which will be turned over to the facility for conversion into fuel and biogas.
She said the city government which is expected to deliver garbage of at least 10 tons daily is also buying 10 dump trucks, in support of the project as it will be in charge of collecting wastes from households and public markets.