ILOILO – Starting March 15 this year, 29 local government units (LGUs) will dispose their waste at the 12-hectare P308-million integrated waste management facility in Barangay Aglalana, Passi City.
The following LGUs signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with the city government of Passi for this last month: Badiangan, Bingawan, Cabatuan, Calinog, Janiuay, Mina, Pototan, Anilao, Banate, Barotac Nuevo, Dingle, Dueñas, Dumangas, San Enrique, Ajuy, Balasan, Barotac Viejo, Batad, Carles, Concepcion, Estancia, Lemery, San Dionisio, San Rafael, Sara, Oton, Santa Barbara, Leganes, and Zarraga.
The sanitary landfill could accommodate between 200 to 375 tons of residual waste per day.
According to Mayor Stephen Palmares of Passi City, representatives of Basic Environment Systems Technologies, Inc. (BEST) that is currently constructing the facility, the first cell would already be completed and ready to accommodate waste by March 15.
Construction started last October 2019.
“I-clarify ko lang daya nga sanitary landfill indi typical kag conventional nga waste materials i-dump lang diri. There will be segregation,” stressed Palmares.
The facility is a Passi City public-private partnership project with BEST, which will operate it for seven years.
“It’s a good strategy to construct environmentally-friendly solid waste management facilities that could save other towns that have problems with waste disposal,” said Gov. Arthur Defensor Jr. during its groundbreaking in Octoberlast year.
The sanitary landfill is in compliance with the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000, said Vice Mayor Jesry Palmares.
A sanitary landfill uses an engineered method of waste disposal where waste are buried underground or in a large pile being controlled and monitored. The bottom of the landfill has a network of plumbing, serves as collection system for liquids to avoid leakages of leachates from the landfill that harms the waterways.
Once operational, Passi City will have an 18 percent share in the net income as well as in the tipping fee.
“The tipping fee will still depend on the distance of the towns,” said Palmares./PN
