Environment
15 October 2009
Quick Stats on
Solid Waste Collection and Disposal
The City generates more than 2 million cubic meters of garbage every year, 88% of which is household waste. The City's Environment Protection and Waste Management Department (EPWMD) records garbage collection efficiency of 99.57% in 2007. Garbage collected is disposed of at the Payatas Controlled Dump Facility, a pioneering waste management site not only for disposing wastes properly but also for materials recovery, a methane gas conversion to energy and wastepickers and thriving entrpreneurs community organizing.
Solid waste management programs localized in the barangays have been notable for its growing success. The 57 barangays implementing the Sinop Basura sa Barangay campaign are able to divert 27, 789 kilograms of waste per day by practicing proper waste segregation from the households. This is in addition to the 474,620 kilograms of materials recycled by the City's accredited junk shops, yielding 30.61% of the City's daily wastes diverted into usable materials. The city government is developing alternative disposal modes that are environment-friendly, through a Materials Recovery Facility (MRF).
Biogas Emission Reduction
(from Controlled Waste Facility)
The Payatas Controlled Dump Facility is now all lit up with power derived from its methane gas emissions. The City is the first in the Philippines to pioneer in the development of a biogas emission extraction and reduction plant, as its concrete response to the worldwide concern on global warming. The project will bring revenues to the City through carbon credit equivalents and clean green electricity.
Salient Features/ Characteristics:
- Registered as a Clean Development Mechanism under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
- Estimated annual average greenhouse gas emission reductions: 116,000 tonnes of CO2 over 10 years
- Estimated CO2 emissions avoided because of displaced grid electricity generated from fules that emit larger amounts of carbon dioxide: 19,300 tonnes
- Electricity generated from methane, over 10 years: 42,000 MWh
- Earnings from Certified Emission Reductions (CERs): average of P12 million per year of 187,500 euros
