Metro Clark Waste Management said Monday it completed a P350 million, seven-hectare expansion project at its landfill facility in Kalangitan, Clark, Pampanga.
The firm said it expanded the country’s first engineered sanitary landfill to deliver world-class waste disposal services to more cities, municipalities and industrial clients in Central Luzon. Local and foreign experts predicted that Philippine waste would continue to increase, exceeding the total capacity of landfills in the country.
“It is our job to monitor these studies and projections and proactively plan accordingly. The yearly increase in solid waste in the Philippines, while sobering, was expected. While recycling and other trash reduction measures do help and must be done, there’s just so much waste that the only solution is to expand,” said MCWM executive vice president and general manager Vicky Gaetos.
The Philippines ranks as the top contributor to plastic pollution in the oceans, putting the country among the five largest producers of plastic waste worldwide, as indicated by a global study recently released by the Stockholm Resilience Center.
