TACLOBAN CITY – The German firm Herhof GmbH recently made a presentation before council members of this city as it aims to forge a memorandum of agreement with the city government for the construction and development of waste management disposal plant facilities using “a highly reliable and safe technology from Germany called Stabilat-R Method.
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The presentation was made by Michael Jimenez, president of Zehira and CEO of TIG Green Mindanao Technology.
Based on the presentation of Jimenez, their company will be using around six hectares of land for the Stabilat facility with a 50 years usufruct arrangement, ensuring that all fresh garbage of the city will be dump in their plant and around nine hectares of land are to be used for the possible construction of a power-generation technologies or the so-called “EVA Power Plant.
The project, according to Jimenez, would mean no cost for the city as the facility will be put up by their company only the area should be provided by the city government.
He added that the facility aside from helping in giving solution to the garbage problem of the city would also help in providing employment and income generation from the city.
However, Vice Mayor Arvin Antoni during the presentation said that the technology is good. However, the problem lies the fact that the city government has yet to organize the solid waste management board as mandated under the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act(RA 9003).
The board, according to Antoni, which is headed by the city mayor should be the formulator of the solid waste management plan for the city that is to be submitted to the Solid Waste Management Council for approval.
The company, Antoni said, should have met first with the members of the board before they made presentation at the city council, which the city mayor had yet convened.
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