Tabuk City, DENR-EMB to establish recycling facility

Tabuk City, Kalinga―The city’s solid waste segregation at source will soon be improved with the establishment of a Material Recovery Facility (MRF) at Barangay Agbannawag, Tabuk City.

This following the grant of authority by the members of Sangguniang Panlungsod during its regular session today, May 27 on the proposed Memorandum of Agreement for the implementation of MRF and financial support worth PhP100,000 and incentives.

Said MOA is between the City government and Department of Environment and Natural Resources-Environmental Management Bureau (DENR-EMB) represented by Regional Director Ma. Victoria Abrera.

The Solid Waste Management Program is to assist city government in implementing RA 9003 or the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act particularly in the development of their 10 year SWM Plan, closure and rehabilitation of dumpsites, establishment of Materials Recovery Facilities, and an environmentally sound disposal system.

The agreement intends to: strengthen and further enhance the operation of EMB funded functional MRFs; ensure proper recording of waste received by EMB funded MRFs; increase waste diversion rate of not lower than 10% of the 2019 waste diversion record; provide incentives to best performing LGU on Ecological Solid Waste Management implementations that will serve as model of other implementers; and generate annual data on the trend in waste diversion rates with the operation of EMB funded MRFs.

Moreover, an amount of PhP100,000 shall be released by the DENR-EMB to the city government for the financial support and incentive to the functional EMB-funded MRF.

The financial support shall only be utilized for items and services classified under the maintenance and other operating expenses (MOOE) that will support the improvement of the solid waste management operation in city and increase the capacity of wastes received, processed and diverted.

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