Feasibility study set for Kalibo’s solid waste management

BY BOY RYAN B. ZABAL

Pollution Abatement Systems Specialists, Inc. (PASSI) of Cebu City entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the town of Kalibo for a comprehensive feasibility study to modernize the solid waste management and garbage collection.

Municipal Planning and Development Coordinator Engr. Marlo Villanueva said PASSI will engage in a two-month study which includes the financial, technical and socio-economic and environmental impact assessment of the project.

“The in-depth and detailed feasibility study of PASSI at no cost to the local government of Kalibo is a good move in response to the pressing problem of solid waste management,” he said.

PASSI represented by president Engr. Julito Pogoy and Kalibo mayor William Lachica signed the MOU on Wednesday afternoon.

As part of the conditions, PASSI will conduct a feasibility study until July 21, 2014 to determine the viability of managing the waste produced by the collected garbage of Kalibo in coordination with the solid waste management office of Kalibo. 

Villanueva said, “the joint venture in the near future will also improve the waste disposal in the 2.7 hectares Kalibo dumpsite  and will address the significant risks to public health and environment."

The Cebu-based company is primarily engaged in health care waste collection and transporting, environmental management systems, pollution control systems, material recovery facility and black soil production.

In 2010, PASSI had its first venture deal with Puerto Princesa local government for a medical waste treatment plant. 

In Cebu City, the company has adopted a modern autoclave treatment facility  that utilizes heat, steam and pressure of an industrial autoclave in the processing of medical and septic waste.