LA TRINIDAD, Benguet — The municipal government here adopted a supposed revolutionary zero waste decomposition technology to address an impending solid waste management crisis that will greatly affect the image of this capital town in terms of being a prime tourist destination.

The technology is described as a super plasma decomposition which is considered to be revolutionary as it requires zero fuel, no power or energy and requires negligible maintenance fees as well as very low labor cost that will not affect the town’s revenues and implementation of priority infrastructure projects for the benefit of the people.

Since it does not reportedly emit gasses, Mayor Gregorio T. Abalaos Jr. said it is the purest, cleanest and most environmentally-friendly garbage processing equipment ever invented in the global village.

The aforesaid solid waste management technology is a world renowned Japanese technology that uses low temperature plasma to decompose garbage generated in the 16 barangays of the town.

According to Abalos, the system is also called the super black hole magnetic decomposer as differentiated from the numerous sold waste management disposal systems being introduced worldwide to treat the solid waste problems of the local governments.

However, the system is not yet available in the country although the town will be the first to have the said technology for an efficient and effective solid waste disposal.

One unit of the equipment will reportedly cost more or less R60 million and that the prototype of the same is still being manufactured in Japan.

Unlike other solid waste disposal systems that produce fertilizers, Abalos claimed the prototype nearly turns all materials, except metal, into ceramic ash.

Local officials and residents remain optimistic that the new solid waste management technology will be able to ease the strenuous burden on the municipal government imposed by the excessive amount of biodegradable waste generated by the lucrative vegetable trading.

Based on the statistics from the municipal government, the town generates more or less 48 tons of waste daily and 53 percent of which is classified as biodegradable while the remaining 26 and 21 percent are recyclables and residual wastes, respectively.

At present, the town operates a controlled dump facility in Sitio Induyan, Barangay Alno but since the same opened in January this year, its lifespan is predicted to last only for only seven months because of the huge volume of residual wastes being dumped in the facility.

Experts disclosed the controlled dump facility was already filled up of half of its capacity in less than one month which makes the same impractical to maintain because of its reported short lifespan.