DAVAO CITY – There are many reasons why the Davao City Council should be hesitant about putting its support behind the Waste-to-Energy incineration project.
Tipping fees can be passed on to actual waste generators, for instance to individual barangays or commercial establishments or companies that would want to dispose of their waste through the WtE incinerator. In other words, the tipping fee needs to be at least five times more than originally conceptualized. And this revised amount roughly refers to the period before the COVID pandemic. Analysts estimate that the required tipping fees will even be higher in this post-COVID period, especially after the eventual construction of the facility which will take another three more years.
The feasibility study submits that the SPC/Service Provider may be 100% owned by foreign investors , meaning, “Japanese physical persons or Japanese juridical persons controlled by Japanese physical persons and registered in Japan.
Construction is one thing. What are the other costs for this very centralized processing of letting waste go up in smoke?