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Mayor Jerry
Treñas, after a meeting with the Iloilo Waste Recovery Joint Venture
Corporation (IWRJVC) on Monday, announced that the Iloilo City Integrated Solid
Waste Management Facility will have its groundbreaking ceremony in Barangay
Ingore on April 4.
“A key
highlight of this facility is its advanced technology and innovative approach
to environmentally friendly waste management. This technology will generate
power and solid fuel through anaerobic digestion and not burning,” he said in a
statement.
Engr. Neil
Ravena, head of the General Services Office, said the facility will process
waste and is not another sanitary landfill or dumpsite, but an enclosed
facility that is not exposed to weather.
“It will
not be construction of another sanitary landfill or another dumpsite. We will
not dump our waste into the area. Rather, there is a facility that will accept
our garbage for processing. The processing will produce power or energy that
will supply our desalination plant, which will produce potable water for Iloilo
City,” he said in an interview.
He said
they expect the facility to cater to 400 tons a day, but it could process up to
460 tons.
It will also have a material recovery facility that will serve as a sorting facility to remove those that do not decompose, like ceramics, stones, and glass.