MANILA, Philippines—A unit of publicly-listed IPM Holdings Inc. has begun operations of the first of several engineered sanitary landfills in the country using the public-private partnership model.
Located in Passi City, Iloilo province, the 10-hectare sanitary landfill of Basic Environmental Systems & Technologies (BEST) Inc. is capable of handling solid waste from 28 local government units in the third, fourth and fifth districts of Iloilo province.
The facility also accepts solid waste from other local government units within Iloilo province. Designed, built and operated by BEST in partnership with Passi City, the Passi Integrated Waste Management Facility is estimated to …
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