Baguio execs okay MOA to haul trash to Urdaneta

By Aileen P. Refuerzo

BAGUIO CITY – The city council has confirmed a memorandum of agreement that would allow the city to haul out its wastes to the engineered sanitary landfill in Urdaneta City from December 12, 2012 to December 11, 2014.The agreement was signed by Mayor Mauricio Domogan and N4th Enterprises proprietress Maria Rhodora Flores.

As per the MOA, the city can dispose 150 tons of residual and mixed solid wastes daily to the Urdaneta facility through Flores.

The city will be responsible in ensuring that the waste materials contain no medical or toxic components from hospitals and clinics.

The city will be charged a tipping fee of P972 per ton.

Flores will deliver the waste materials brought by the city to her place of business to the Urdaneta City facility and ensure that the waste are received in the facility.

Flores will also inspect and monitor the delivered wastes prior to their delivery to the facility.

The city pursued hauling out wastes to the Urdaneta facility to cut down on transport costs but it continues to avail of the services of the Capas facility for wastes not accepted by the Urdaneta station.

General services officer and solid waste division head Romeo Concio said the city spends between P7-8 million per month in hauling wastes.