LOG IN. UPLOAD PICTURES.
The Philippines has Zambo Mart to help propagate the Chavacano Language.
Joint venture agreement for Dagupan's Waste to Energy facility signed
- Source: http://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1005679
- Friday, August 11, 2017
- By Leonardo Micua (PNA)
DAGUPAN CITY -- A modern technology costing USD 11 million that can convert solid wastes into diesel fuel and methane gas will be used in Dagupan City starting next year.
This was after the signing of a joint venture agreement (JVA) between the company SURE Global Waste to Worth Innovations (W2WI) Philippines and the Dagupan City government at CSI Stadia in Dagupan City Thursday afternoon.
The project, projected to eventually solve the city's more than 60-year-old garbage problem, is a state of the art facility that can take Dagupan's 30-ton a day garbage for conversion into useful fuel to help the economy of the country, said Jill Boughton, president and chief executive officer of SURE Global W2W1.
Boughton signed the JVA with Mayor Belen Fernandez who zealously worked for this project since she assumed post as the city chief executive in 2013.
The signing was witnessed by City Legal Officer Victoria Cabrera and Paul Puthenpurekul, director of SURE Global Waste to Worth Philippines Inc.
The mayor had to travel to Chile, and speak before the United Nations and Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) just to get the project for Dagupan.
In a talk to newsmen after the signing, Boughton said Dagupan's 30 tons of garbage generated per day is convertible into 6,000 liters of diesel for motor vehicles and 4,000 kilograms of natural gas which can be used for cooking and in lighting homes.
Two other such projects are are now already rising in Angeles City and Cabuyao, Laguna but Bougton said the project in Dagupan is different from the two because it can convert garbage to both diesel and methane gas.
Asked by newsmen if adjacent towns of Pangasinan can also avail of the facility, Boughton said the agreement is that the facility will take only garbage from the city.
She said the project can help boost the economy of the city and at the same time make it clean by turning used plastic into diesel, and green wastes and food wastes into methane gas for cooking and lighting.
The recyclable materials will still be recycled just like today which, she added, is also very important to the economy.
She said after the signing of the JVA, engineering works will follow and will take about six months to complete. Then, another six months will be needed to construct the complex to house the machinery.
The facility will rise on a two-hectare area segregated from the national park by a proclamation issued in 2016 by then President Benigno Aquino III.
"The signing of JVA marks the culmination of all the hard work, extensive research, and dedication of all the parties involved in the Waste to Worth project," said Shankar Viswanathan, general manager of Procter & Gamble Philippines, the company which initiated the project more than four years ago.
At the same time, Boughton assured that the facility will not cause any pollution and will abide by all the rules issued by the National Solid Waste Management Commission for companies engaged in converting garbage into fuel.
"We will be very strict in all the environmental controls that we must adhere to. We will not create another problem by solving one problem" she added.
Boughton said her company will finance the project and operate it as a business enterprise but assured that once it is operating, it will be environmentally-friendly.
Mayor Fernandez was elated that finally, the project is coming through after long hard work and sometimes, travel on bumpy roads.
She said as part of the preparations for the Waste to Energy project, the city government has ordered 10 new dump trucks, three of which already arrived.
The city of Dagupan through its Waste Management Division will be in charge of collecting all garbage from homes, market and factory for delivery to the Waste to Energy facility.
Crispian Lao, commissioner and vice chairman of the National Solid Waste Management Commission, lauded the project and expressed hope it can become a model for all local governments in the Philippines.