Firm bares indigenous proven solutions to environment problems

Mapecon Green Charcoal Philippines, Inc. ( MGCPI) will pursue a program it believes can draw public interest to help communicate to the public the value of managed environment through thematic program which is also designed to address the problems of pests, wastes and other environment problems. It likewise hopes this would merit public support.

The program dubbed Modern Indigenous Proven Solutions is embodied in a position paper presented to the DENR during the past administration. It involves recyling of waterlilies and mud from Laguna Lake and Pasig River, which may serve as a model in revitalizing and cleaning the lakes through an organic vermi comporting using the Green Charcoal technology, in consonance with Article I, Section 2C of Republic Act 9003, the Solid Waste Management Law.

This was aired by noted inventor Gonzalo Catan Jr., MGCPI executive vice president, who also said the program was arrived at following results of research on the massive population of waterlilies and mud in Laguna Lake and Pasig River.

Waterlilies, the research showed, can be converted into alternative fuel while mud can be made into vermicast (organic fertilizer) through the companyÕs patented green charcoal technology.

Green charcoal technology, explains Catan, converts bio waste into green charcoal in the form of pellets, fire log and briquette and is environment friendly. It is an activated carbon produced from coconut shell, and other forest wastes using a Toyota Hi- Ace 4- K engine that runs on 100 percent green charcoal which is hydrogen fuel, the cleanest fuel there is, in lieu of petroleum fuel which is harmful to the environment.

Activated carbon, on the other hand, is an amorphous carbon subjected to thermal t reatment with oxidizing gasses and vapors or a mixture of both (steam) to increase its adsorptive properties. It involves steam activation at 900c.