CLARK FREEPORT — The Metro Clark Waste Management Corp. (MCWM) has bared plans to construct next year a $210-million waste-to-energy facility in the New Clark City in Capas, Tarlac.
MCWM president Rufo Colayco said this would initiate “transitioning from merely landfilling to high technology recycling and renewable energy generation.”
“This would involve development of an advanced centralized recycling facility at the waste management center where materials will be segregated for recycling and processing into secondary fuel,” he explained.
Colayco said the secondary fuel will then be used as the primary feed stock for a secondary fuel CHP (cogeneration or combined heat and power) which will generate up to 35 megawatts of electrical renewable energy for the New Clark City.
Colayco said that once operational, the new facility would allow the company to collect at least 2,000 tons of wastes a day, covering about 20 percent of the wastes in the area.
The MCWM has already submitted its unsolicited proposal on the project to the Bases Conversion and Development
Authority (BCDA) which has sought additional information on the project.
“We are optimistic that once the project gets approval from the government, construction can start in the middle or late part of 2020, assuming a six-month long bidding under Public- Private Partnership,” Colayco said.
MCWM’s existing landfill in Capas is reputed to be the country’s first and only engineered sanitary landfill.
MWCM founder Holder Holst said the Philippines produced about 700,000 tons of waste in 2018, which is projected to grow at about 77,765 tons of waste per day by 2025.
