GenSan eyes PPP for landfill operation
GENERAL SANTOS CITY: The city government is pushing for a public-private partnership (PPP) for the operation, maintenance and development of its sanitary landfill (SLF) in Barangay Sinawal here.
Ferdinand Pareja, head of the GenSan Solid Waste Management office, said they are in search of interested private firms for a joint venture agreement for the management and development of the 63.3-hectare facility in Barangay Sinawal.
He said the move was aimed at upgrading the operations of the SLF and addressing various management concerns which includes handling of collected wastes and declining capacity of the existing landfill.
Pareja revealed that the landfill is facing problems with the processing of the collected garbage due to improper segregation.
He said that only 10 percent residual waste should be disposed of in the landfill while the rest are to be segregated and processed for composting and recycling.
“We only have one cell waste facility measuring 5 hectares within the 63.3-hectares sanitary landfill and is now on its full capacity that it cannot anymore cater the 120 tons collected garbage every day from the 26 covered barangay in GenSan as we started constructing the new one cell facility,” Pareja said.
The local government, through the waste management office, took over the operations of the P219-million SLF complex three years ago following the expiration of the “design, build and operate” contract with R-II Builders Inc. and the Philippine Ecology Systems Consortium Inc.
Pareja said that there was a private consortium that had submitted an “unsolicited proposal” to manage and operate the sanitary landfill for at least 25 years, with the project costing around P100 million but it did not materialize because the private company failed to provide some of the requirements.
The proponent was the East Asia Sheng Tai, a consortium composed of the East Asia Solutions Technology Corporation, Sheng Tai Energy Technology Company, and Dr. Lin ShingChou.
Based on a project briefer, the proposal involves the operation and maintenance of the sanitary landfill facility and the establishment and implementation of a waste conversion program.