The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) ordered the inventory of available lands suitable for sanitary landfill (SLF) and materials recovery facilities (MRF) to facilitate the identification of prospective projects that can be developed by the Natural Resource Development Corporation (NRDC).
DENR-MIMAROPA regional executive director Henry A. Adornado through a Memorandum has instructed all the PENRO and CENRO within the region to identify suitable and available public lands that can be developed by the NRDC into a SLF and MRF.
The Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Office in Brgy. Sta. Monica, Puerto Princesa City confirmed that they received the Memorandum issued by the regional executive director of the DENR-MIMAROPA, Henry A. Adornado Ph.D.
For the SLF sites, the NRDC is particularly looking for areas that are public land, existing open land or dumpsite, has an area of 80 to 100 hectares, undulating and rolling, accessible from roads and located outside residential and build-up areas.
SLF is a final disposal facility allowed under RA 9003 also known as the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000, while MRF, is a facility intended for storage of recyclable and recoverable materials.
Last September 2019, the Natural Resources Development Corporation (NRDC) through its executive director, Demetrio L. Ignacio Jr. updated and presented their development plans to the Undersecretaries of the DENR.
Undersecretary Juan Miguel T. Cuna, Undersecretary for Field Operations said that this is pursuant to Secretary Roy Cimatu’s thrust towards improved solid wastes management and in line with the Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) between the DENR and the NRDC signed in 2009.
Undersecretary Cuna has also issued a Memorandum to all regional executive directors of the DENR for the purpose of conducting inventory to prospective sites for SLF and MRF.