PRIME Infrastructure Capital Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiary, Prime Integrated Waste Solutions (PWS) inaugurated yesterday its large-scale, automated materials recovery facility (MRF) in Porac, Pampanga.
Department of Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Maria Antonia Yulo-Loyzaga, said PWS’ waste segregation and storage facility will help the country’s waste disposal challenges.
“The Philippines generates about 61,000 metric tons of waste daily…with 33 percent ending up in landfills, while 35 percent is leaked into the open environment. The company’s (PWS) utilization of this state-of-the-art equipment transforms the strategy for resource recovery and also links it to our fuel transition,” Loyzaga said.
“We look forward to seeing more such facilities in the future and we’re here to support each and every local government unit in their journey towards a climate-resilient and environmentally safe future,” Loyzaga added.
The Pampanga facility can accommodate up to 5,000 tons per day of municipal solid waste.
Guillaume Lucci, Prime Infra president and chief executive officer, said the MRF will help industrialize the waste business in the Philippines at high scale.
“This expansion in Luzon, starting in Pampanga–and we want to thank again the host province and host municipalities for this–really demonstrates our commitment to industrialize this market which is the natural next step for waste management in the country,” Lucci said.
The Pampanga MRF is the first greenfield development of PWS and the company’s second operational facility next to Cebu City.
PWS uses state-of-the-art equipment procured from Europe and Asia such as vibrating sieves, baler systems, magnetic separators, as well as air density separator to maximize resource recovery.
“Our current waste management process is really built around resource recovery. We plan to invest in a waste-to-fuel facility here that will convert the waste into fuel for ships, airplanes, trucks and so on and so forth. This is an integral part of Prime Infra’s sustainability initiatives,” Lucci added.
