GENERAL SANTOS City’s Central Materials Recovery Facility (CMRF), which can process up to 40 tons of waste per day, is open for visits by representatives of other local government units (LGUs), where they can pick up lessons on waste management. Mayor Ronnel C. Rivera, in a post on his Facebook page, said he wants to make GenSan City “a model for environmental and waste management for other LGUs.” The P35 million CMRF, located at the sanitary landfill in Barangay Sinawal, was built through a grant from the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) through the UN Development Programme-Global Environmental Finance (UNDP-GEF). UNIDO officials visited the site on Nov. 19. Environmental Management Bureau Region 12 Director Ma. Socorro C. Lanto said they are ready to assist LGUs that want to visit the GenSan CMRF, considered as the country’s first large-scale mechanized MRF. It can convert plastics into materials for concrete pavers and other by-products, bio-waste into organic fertilizer, and other sorted waste into materials with economic values. Mr. Rivera said the CMRF was designed by Filipino inventor and engineer, Bernabe M. Archeta.

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