A Japanese firm has started with three city employees in the operations of modern composting machines which will deal with efficiently managing the city's 166 tons of solid wastes generated here daily.
City Mayor Mauricio Domogan said that the city expects not to be "spending millions of pesos just bring our garbage to an engineered sanitary landfill in Capas, Tarlac."
"We are spending at least P2,000 to effectively dispose one ton of our garbage. A few days ago, we already received a demand for P6 million as tipping fee for the garbage disposal. The tipping fee does not still include the expenses for the hauling and other related expenses. Once we can operate these composting machines, we can generate income from the organic fertilizer produced and minimal non-biodegradable materials will be taken cared of by the company selling us the machines," he said.
Domogan expects that the start of operations of the composting machines will be February next year and "after May 31, 2011, we will no longer be hauling our garbage to Tarlac."
He said that efficient solid waste disposal here is important for the city's title as cleanest and greenest city in the country. (PNA)
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