INSTEAD of scavengers picking up trash, golf players and enthusiasts may soon be seen visiting the Cebu City Government owned and operated landfill in Barangay Inayawan.
Before his regular news conference yesterday, Mayor Tomas Osmeña met with some investors from South Korea who presented their ideas for the facility.
“The most likely scenario is that the landfill will end up as a golf course. We have to fill it up a little bit more and then proceed with the recovery to make it a golf course,” he told reporters.
Aside from this, the foreign visitors also raised interest in using all of the city’s incoming garbage.
Energy
Part of the investors’ plan is to process all of the city’s incoming trash and convert it to energy.
Aside from this, they will be recovering whatever can be reused so that the remaining 10 percent of the garbage will be used as sanitizing material.
While the South Korean investors have yet to submit a formal offer, Osmeña said the former’s suggestion will “definitely be cheaper” than the last administration’s expenses on garbage disposal.
“There’s no offer yet, but their direction is one of the best. They will submit it as soon as possible,” Osmeña said.
Debt
The City Government refuses to pay the P61 million in garbage services it owes the service providers.
Of the amount, P29 million is the supposed payable to the private hauler hired to collect the garbage from the transfer station in Barangay Inayawan to the private landfill in Consolacion town.
The P32 million, on the other hand, is for the tipping fee to Asian Energy Systems Corp., the owner of the private facility.
Although the City has yet to receive formal offers, the mayor said that out of the more than 10 inquiries, the suggestion given by his most recent visitors is one of the best.
“This one here is 70 percent owned by the South Korean Government so they’re not fly-by-night. They have operations in South Korea and their landfills are 10 times, 30 times bigger than ours,” he said.