Non Com POPs Project
Global Programme to demonstrate the viability and removal of barriers that impede adoption and successful implementation of available non-combustion technologies for destroying Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in the Philippines
OPERATING ENTITY - SITE SELECTION
The Project anticipated that ease or difficulty in successfully deploying alternative technologies that meet Project criteria would depend, to some considerable degree, on a country's pre-existing technological infrastructure and on related considerations of human resource availability.
This new understanding more specifically emphasized the realization that for purposes of cost and operating efficiency, it was not only desirable but also essential to locate the non-combustion technology with an existing chemical or petrochemical plant, where there already exists the kind of management structure, workforce and access to raw materials needed to operate the technologies. After undertaking a process in identifying and reviewing several potential options for the operating entity, the Philippines Alternative Fuel Corporation (PAFC), formerly Petrochemical Development Corporation of the Philippine National Oil Company (PNOC-PDC) was selected. It will host and operate the POPs destruction facility to be located at its Petrochem Park in Mariveles, Bataan. The company will be responsible for all of the activities concerning site preparation, installation of the non-combustion unit and destruction activities in their site as well as control and compliance with the license or permits issued by the national and local authorities. PAFC has set aside approximately 4,000 m2 in its Petrochem Park for the POPs destruction facility. It is likewise the intention of the project to put up an interim storage facility within the site for about 300 tonnes of PCB at any one time.
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