Garbage at the Shrine Hills. Photo courtesy of Sustainable Davao Movement DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 26 August) – The local government can look for other ways to address the city’s solid waste problem…
DAVAO CITY – The local government can look for other ways to address the city’s solid waste problem if the national government won’t support its proposal to construct a waste-to-energy facility, Mayor Sebastian Duterte said.In his weekly program over Davao City Disaster Radio on Friday, Duterte said he had already talked to officials of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources in Manila about the city’s plan to build a WTE facility.
He said the government has no capacity to deal with dioxin, furan and other toxic by-products, which would require “highly technical expertise.” “Besides all these, it can promote further wasteful consumerism, as the citizens are made to believe that it is okay to produce waste since the WTE needs garbage to generate energy,” he said.
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