This highly urbanized city is preparing an integration and implementation framework in its bid to adopt an innovative waste-to-energy (WTE) project in collaboration with the Department of Energy (DOE).<\/p>\n
The development comes Friday after the city\u2019s Solid Waste Management Board (SWMB) drafted a resolution formalizing the adoption of the framework.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is slated for approval by the City Council and subsequent submission to the National Solid Waste Management Commission,\u201d the city government said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Last month, Mayor Greg Gasataya signed a memorandum of agreement with Energy Secretary Sharon Garin to establish a framework for technical cooperation and coordination between the two parties to advance the installation of a WTE facility.<\/p>\n
Under the initiative, the city will convert waste into sustainable power, with the potential to generate up to 15 megawatts at the Bacolod Integrated Recycling and Technology Hub.<\/p>\n
Spanning 25.7 hectares, the city-owned facility is located adjacent to the 5-hectare sanitary landfill in Barangay Felisa.<\/p>\n
The city government has received support from the Metro Bacolod Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MBCCI) and the Bacolod Anti-Baha Alliance, both members of the SWMB, in advancing the WTE project.<\/p>\n
\u201cA WTE solution is really needed, considering the bulk of the garbage that we have. Based on their data, one landfill can already be filled up in just a year and six months. We need a new technology for processing waste,\u201d MBCCI president Juliana Carbon said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Carbon noted that the approach not only addresses landfill capacity issues but also promotes community-wide adoption of reuse, recycling and composting practices.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis initiative will help the city in reducing our waste. I understand that waste-to-energy is last in the hierarchy, after all the process from avoidance to composting. I hope it will serve as a message to the community to cooperate in waste management,\u201d Dionisio de la Cruz of the Bacolod Anti-Baha Alliance said in a statement. (PNA)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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