SAN JOSE, Antique – The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Antique provincial office turned over a P4.9-million shared service facility (SSF) to Sibalom town to be used for its alternative technology in managing plastic wastes.
“The turned over equipment will intensify the thrust of the municipality to reduce its generated wastes through diversion, recycling, recovery and the use of alternative technology,” said
Lynna Joy Cardinal, DTI Antique provincial office information officer and in charge of the SSF project.
DTI Provincial Director Ma. Dinda Tamayo on July 18 turned over to Sibalom several pieces of equipment such as an extruder to melt soft plastic flakes, a presser or molder of melted plastics, and a molder to form a plastic border.
Cardinal said the town has 19.31 tons per day of compostable waste, 1.38 tons of recyclable, 2.06 tons of residual, and 0.23 tons of special waste generated per day based on the 2017 population.
The town’s waste generation per capita is then projected to increase in the years to come because of the economic growth in the municipality.
Sibalom, through the proper waste segregation at the source, segregated collection, and establishment of the materials recovery facility (MRF) in its 76 barangays, could mitigate the tons of plastics going into the landfill every year.
Cardinal said the town would be able to “use the collected plastics as flower pots, plastic boards, and other plastic containers since they now have the SSF.”
To date, Sibalom has a Municipal Central MRF at the Sibalom EcoPark in Barangay Iglanot where the SSF is also located. (PNA/PN)
