By Anna liza Cabrido/Philippine News Agency
KORONADAL CITY — The city government is planning to start producing its own organic fertilizer next month using biodegradable waste collected from local households and business establishments.
This, as the local government announced that it will finally open next week its large-scale composting facility in the city’s six-hectare sanitary landfill in Purok Pagunsan, Barangay Paraiso.
City Mayor Peter Miguel said Friday they are currently making the arrangements for the full operation of the PHP20-million facility.
He said its operations will be managed by the City Environment and Natural Resources Office (CENRO).
The city government said in February that it had tapped machinery distributor Trans Orient Group to provide the equipment and technology for the project.
Local government personnel visited a composting facility in Bayawan City, Negros Oriental that was contracted to Trans Orient as part of the move.
The mayor said the facility has complete equipment and machinery that could process biodegradable waste into fertilizer.
“This (fertilizer) will be given out for free to our farmers and other interested residents,” he told reporters.
With the operation of the facility, Miguel said the local government will collect both residual and biodegradable waste from households and establishments.
The city government has been collecting only residual waste, which are then disposed at the sanitary landfill.
Under Republic Act 9003 or the Solid Waste Management Act, the mayor said the city government is only obliged to collect residual waste while barangays should handle the recyclable and biodegradable waste.
He reminded residents to segregate their accumulated waste into biodegradable and non-biodegradable waste to facilitate their proper collection and disposal.
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