MABALACAT CITY --- Governor Lilia “Nanay” G. Pineda warned the local chief executives in the province that she will appeal to Kapampangan constituents not to vote for candidates for mayors in the May 10 elections who have no concrete program on how to solve the volume of garbage produced daily in their respective municipalities and cities.
This warning was made by Pineda as majority of the mayors had snubbed yesterday the orientation on the sustainable solution to waste management needs introduced by Holcim Philippines known as “geocycle”.
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The governor said that LCEs should take broader and tangible steps on how to resolve the large volumes of garbage produced daily in the province which she described as “silent monster”.
The governor added that this gargantuan garbage mess if not averted may multiply into more predicaments such as health problems and environmental degradation that may reach into an alarming proportion.
This stern warning was made by the governor as she sensed the lack of interest on the part of the LCEs considering the tons of garbage plastics that blocked the water channels in the various tributaries and rivers in almost all the municipalities and cities.
With this, the provincial government will now initiate best option to manage waste in the province through engaging the services of the private sector whose lines of business are more on reducing and recycling of waste into energy and alternative fuel including waste treatment and final disposal.
The Capitol is eyeing to enter into a memorandum of agreement for six months with the Holcim Philippines’ Geocycle engaged in co-processing, a unique waste management service that completely destroys waste and incorporates the mineral and chemical components of the waste into manufactured products – such as cement, lime, steel or coal.
The Geocycle, waste management service brand of Holcim, is the only service provider that has the capability to offer co-processing technology that provides permanent, safe, regulated and sustainable solutions to waste problem.
The governor said that in Lubao town, they are now also working for the waste to energy solution to garbage woes.
On the part of the local government units (LGUs), the governor said she will initiate the reactivation of the solid waste management councils from the barangay to the municipal level in the whole province as she said that the provincial solid waste management council cannot make it alone.
“We need the help of the front liners in the LGUs plus the full support of the communities,” she added.
The governor said she will also ask the concerned line agencies such as the Environment Management Bureau (EMB) of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) to help her administration in the fight against the “silent monster” before it’s too late. (By Joel Mapiles / Pampanga PIO
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