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The Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP), in partnership with the Renergy System, Inc., officially opened the Waste Cooking Oil (WCO)-to-Energy Laboratory located at the Main Campus in Sta. Mesa, Manila on October 20, 2021.
Calling the project a “green initiative” of the University, PUP President Manuel Muhi said that “the PUP community has a gargantuan task to save and care for the environment.”
He said that “the importance of recycling our waste must be the priority of everyone to reduce the amount of waste produced, contribute to the conservation of many non-renewable resources,” and that “we can now find better ways of recycling cooking oil without harming the environment.”
The PUP Center for Environmental Studies (CES) described the WCO-to-energy laboratory as a “green initiative” that opens greater availability of waste-to-energy technologies to the PUP community.
“This green initiative can be utilized especially in the areas of instruction, curriculum, research and development, and extension work,” says CES Chief Prof. Jimmy Fernando.
The project, dubbed as Waste-to-Energy Technology Center and Laboratory includes the collection, filtering, and conversion of WCO into energy using the Renergy System equipment of Japan for use in diesel engine generators, charging stations of electric vehicles, and other sustainable usages of WCO.
WCO is classified as hazardous waste under Republic Act 6969 or “An Act to Control Toxic Substances and Hazardous and Nuclear Wastes.”
In Metro Manila, undetermined amounts of WCO are drained to the canals, tributaries that eventually flow to the Pasig River and eventually to Manila Bay becoming one of the main pollutants in Manila Bay.
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