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Prime Infrastructure Capital, Inc. (Prime Infra) inaugurated its latest large-scale automated materials recovery facility (MRF) on June 5. The 1-billion-peso 10-hectare facility in Porac, Pampanga is capable of processing up to 5,000 tons of waste per day – a feat that the company and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Prime Integrated Waste Solutions (PWS), is proud of. This project marks Prime Infra’s first greenfield project and second operational MRF facility after Cebu City.
A Sustainable Waste Management Solution
An alternative to sanitary landfills, MRFs use a different, more sustainable set of operations to segregate and treat waste. Prime Infra has pledged to recover, upgrade, and recycle 80 to 90 percent of the total waste collected from Pampanga and other northern Metro Manila areas through the new MRF’s modern equipment.
DENR Secretary Maria Antonia Yulo-Loyzaga, who led the inauguration, underscored the significance of this facility in fostering a healthier and safer Philippines. According to her, the country generates a staggering 61,000 metric tons of waste every day, with a third ending up in landfills, and 35% being improperly disposed of.
Transforming Trash to Treasure
The ultimate objective of the MRF is to convert the recovered materials into sustainable fuels.
At the inauguration, Prime Infra’s president and CEO, Guillaume Lucci, emphasized the firm’s commitment to industrializing waste management in the Philippines on a large scale. “We plan to invest in a waste-to-fuel facility here that will convert the waste into fuel for ships, airplanes, trucks and so on and so forth. This is an integral part of Prime Infra’s sustainability initiatives,” Lucci said.
Prime Infra’s utilization of state-of-the-art equipment “transforms the strategy for resource recovery and also links it to our fuel transition,” Environment Secretary Yulo-Loyzaga said.
Cara Peralta, Prime Infra’s market sector lead for waste, shares that the technology for fuel conversion is still being finalized. She said the plan is to expand the partnership with the US-based WasteFuel Global to transform waste into various alternative fuels, such as methanol and waste oil.
In 2021, Prime Infra announced its intention to collaborate with WasteFuel Global on a waste-to-fuel project, a move that will support the country’s transition to clean energy.
Source: Prime Infrastructure switches on P1 billion waste management facility in Pampanga