DAVAO CITY – The City Council of Davao asked President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. on Tuesday to set aside a “counterpart fund” worth P3.486 billion for the construction of the country’s first waste-to-energy facility in the city.
Ocampo added that the current sanitary landfill in Barangay New Carmen has almost reached full capacity due to the increase in the volume of waste in the city, necessitating the “adoption and application of existing technologies that address solid waste management.” Ocampo said a feasibility study conducted by the City of Davao with Japan International Cooperation Agency in 2015 “confirmed the viability of the establishment and operation of the WTE facility in the city.”Mark Peñalver, executive director of the Interfacing Development Interventions for Sustainability , reiterated his stance against a WTE facility in Davao as it would not address the problem of solid waste.
Peñalver, an environmental lawyer, said the law has yet to be “fully implemented” 22 years after it took effect. “We can still see a lot of plastic coffee stirrers and straws used in establishments and sold in markets and groceries. Hence, there is a gap in the implementation,” he said.
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