IV. METROWIDE ENVIRONMENTAL CONSULTING, INC.
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Metrowide's biggest involvement to-date is in the provision of professional and
personnel services in the rehabilitation by IPM (as contractor to the Quezon
City government) of the Payatas open dump into a controlled solid waste
disposal facility compliant to R.A. 9003. The project essentially allows
Payatas to operate until about the time when a sanitary landfill is installed
in Quezon City.
Metrowide is the facility management sub-contractor, ensuring that operations
and activities are in consonance with the ongoing rehabilitation of the open
dumpsite into a controlled disposal facility, in compliance with R.A. 9003 and
other pertinent environmental regulations. It is likewise, a sub-consultant to
SKM (Phil.) in at least three components of the design consulting requirements
of the Payatas project relative to mound conversion and operators' and on-site
personnel training.
The company is able to provide specialty services in the community development
requirements of the rehabilitation and conversion project.
Payatas has had to deal with informal settlers as well as with thousands of
scavenging families while dealing and integrating with highly-organized groups
that are into the resale of materials with recoverable value, whose very
livelihood are affected by the rehabilitation and ultimately, in compliance to
Republic Act 9003, will have to be closed.
At this time, Payatas is already into full-scale preparations for the
resettlement of the prospective displacement of families and dependents that
have previously relied and made it their hub and only source of livelihood.
Part of the preparation is the conduct of KAP survey of the population
immediately around and within, as well as skills profiling, to provide bases
for local government planners in the identification and/or introduction of
intervention measures to cushion the impact of the gradual phase-out and
anticipated closure of the dumpsite.
Earlier, technical and social support services had been required in the set up
a temporary enterprise center within the site that has become the nucleus of
materials recovery activities, including a tire retrieval program that has made
a positive impact on the Philippine cement industry's pursuit of alternative
fuels and materials program. The tires retrieved from the dump are washed and
loaded onto trucks to reach the optimized load capacity and delivered to a
cement facility in nearby Norzagaray, Bulacan. Every tonnage delivered is
reimbursed the subsidy for delivery.
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