MARIVELES, Bataan — GNPower Mariveles Energy Center Ltd. Co. (GMEC) has continued to support and enhance the waste management scheme of two barangays here.
Arcel Madrid, GMEC assistant vice president for community relations, said the company entered into a joint project with Barangay Sisiman and Barangay Baseco Country in the war on waste (WOW) project.
WOW, adopted by the community relations as part of the company’s corporate social responsibility, is in accordance with the provisions of RA 9003 or Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000, Madrid said
Sisiman is where the coal-fired power plants of GMEC and its sister company, GNPower Dinginin Ltd. Co. (GNPD), are located while Baseco Country is adjacent to the plants.
GMEC has two units with gross installed capacity of 345 megawatts each and net of 316 MW each while GNPD’s two units are each with gross capacity of 725 MW and net of 668 MW.
Stakeholder and PR associate Joseph Paolo Mendoza said that GMEC has provided a one-day seminar workshop on solid waste management and alternative livelihood from waste materials wherein residents, stakeholders and barangay leaders participated to learn the legal basis of waste reduction and recycling.
“In addition, GMEC turned over materials recovery equipment, trash bins and steel box frames to each barangay to assist in achieving the program’s goal. A monitoring of monthly waste disposal, information, education, and communication campaigns, and collection of recyclables to generate income were some of the programs implemented,” he said.
GMEC, Mendoza said, also provided each of the two barangays with kolong-kolong and Bajaj, a three-wheeler vehicle, as service to their constituents.
