Philippines hopes for waste-to-energy technology amid waste disposal headache


A file photo showing a worker collecting garbage from the Marilao River in Bulacan, north of Manila. The Environmental Management Bureau projects that from 2022 to 2025, the country's generated waste will hit 92 million tonnes. - AFP

MANILA (Xinhua): A Philippine lawmaker is pushing for utilising waste-to-energy technologies to improve solid waste management and provide an alternative source of energy as the South-East Asian country is projected to generate 92 million tonnes of waste from 2022 to 2025.

Philippine Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri said on Wednesday (Feb 8) that he has filed a Bill encouraging the innovations in the recovery, conservation, processing, treatment, and disposal of solid waste by using waste-to-energy technologies.

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