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The city government’s agenda to provide a better environment
for its people got a boost after Mayor Inday Sara Duterte led the inauguration
of the Biodiesel Fuel Plant in Ma-a on Friday.
“I am congratulating and thanking Biomass Japan Inc., the
Japanese government, Japan International Cooperating Agency (Jica), Cenro and
other government agencies for all your efforts to install this facility and to
bring this project to fruition,” Mayor Inday said during the blessing of the
plant located at the City Environment and Natural Resources Office (Cenro)
composting facility.
Mayor Inday said the facility, which harnesses technology to
transform used oil to biodiesel fuel, is a welcome development – especially
since waste management is one of the key priorities of the city government.
While still mayor of the city in 2015, President Rodrigo
Duterte issued Executive order No. 32, which mandated the proper storage,
treatment, transport, export, processing, reprocessing, recycling and disposal
of used cooking oil, with Cenro as the lead implementing agency.
Since then, the city through Cenro along with Biomass Japan,
Inc. and Shinozaki Transport Warehouse Co., Ltd in cooperation with the
Japanese government and JICA, started the project with the aim of transforming
used oil into biodiesel fuel.
Solid waste management is also among Inday Sara’s Top 10
priorities. The others were poverty alleviation, infrastructure development,
health, education, agriculture, tourism, transportation planning and traffic
management, peace and order, and disaster risk reduction and mitigation.
Even as the city has taken on the challenge of urbanization,
Mayor Inday said Davao remains steadfast in preserving the environment. This
makes this biodiesel plant timely and appropriate, she added.
“With this project we hope to encourage all Dabawenyos to
take on a more active role in preserving the environment,” she said. “Nature’s
gifts are priceless, jewels worn by this planet that we can never redeem once
sold to industrialization.”
While modernization is at hand, Mayor Inday said, the city
can at least reduce its repercussions with the biodiesel fuel plant.
“Truly Japan loves Davao and the Philippines,” she added.
Meanwhile, the mayor said she is looking for more
eco-friendly programs to benefit not only Davao but the rest of the regions in
the country. CIO
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