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Company offers to build MRF for city

By Marc Cosep Staff Member

CEBU CITY (Dec. 6, 2022) -- A company using Japanese technology has offered
to build for the city a material recovery facility (MRF), presenting as example
what it built for Lapulapu City.

Suki Trading Corporation (STC) made its pitch in yesterday noon’s Task Force Gubat sa
Baha hybrid meeting held at the Office of the Mayor Conference Room, with former
environment Secretary and Task Force Chairman Roy Cimatu presiding via Zoom.

Represented by its president Vick Ocon, the company showed to the Task Force via a
presentation its MRF facility in Lapulapu City, where STC collects garbage from the
barangays and processes them to produce biodegradable cement blocks for retail.

Ocon said their MRF facility uses Japanese technology to achieve “zero waste outputs”.

“We are proposing that all the garbage collected in your rivers be reused using our MRF
(model),” he said.

Atty. Gerry Carillo, Cebu City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council
chairman, also said in the same meeting that the City can use the funding for such
facility that the Department of Environment and Natural Resources already downloaded
to the City Government.

“Actually bag-o lang ko nakahibalo nga na-download na diay sa atoa ang funds. That is
why ato ning lihokon dayon kay nindot ni siya nga project,” said he said.

He requested Atty. Kristine Centino from the Office of the Mayor and Reymar Hijara, the
mayor’s special assistant for environmental concerns, to attend to it immediately.

“We really need to act on this now because we might lose this opportunity because the
funds were already given and wala nay cost sa atoa,” Carillo said. #

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Marc Cosep

Cebu City (December 6, 2022) --

The Department of Environmental and Natural Resources has requested the City
Government to utilize the funds they have downloaded for the construction of a
Materials Recovery Facility to address the garbage disposal problem along rivers.

In today’s Task Force Gubat sa Baha meeting at the Mayor’s Conference Room, Atty.
Gerry Carillo, River Commander of Bulacao River revealed that DENR reached out to
him regarding the funds that they have downloaded to the City’s coffers for the
construction of an MFR.

“Actually bago lang ko nakahibalo nga na download na diay sa atoa ang funds that is
why ato ning lihukon dayon kai nidot ni siya na project,” said Carillo.

Carillo further tells that if unused before the end of the year, the funds will be taken
back and will be reverted to a different city instead.

“We have until this December to initiate the project or else kuhaon ang funds ug i-
butang sa lain na city,” Carillo added.

This is where Suki Trading Corporation (STC) comes in.

Represented by its president Vick Ocon, the company presented its MRF facility in Lapu-
Lapu City where they collect garbage from different barangays and process them in
order to produce biodegradable cement blocks for retail.

Ocon said their MRF facility uses Japanese technology in order to achieve zero waste
outputs.

“We are proposing that all the garbage collected in your rivers be reused using our
MRF,” said Ocon.

To fast-track the process, Carillo designated Atty. Kristine Centino from the office of the
Mayor and Reymar Hijara, the Mayor’s special assistant for environmental concerns.

“We really need to act on this now because we might lose this opportunity because the
funds were already given and wala nang cost sa atoa,” said Carillo.