Tarlac landfill rejects hogs culled due to ASF

CLARK FREEPORT –– The Metro Clark Waste Management Corp. (MCWMC) on Friday confirmed that it has rejected a plan to use the firm’s landfill in Tarlac province as a dumping site for hogs culled for the African Swine Fever (ASF).

“We have received feelers about a plan to make our landfill in Barangay Kalangitan in Capas as a primary disposal site. In keeping up with our mandate, we have firmly indicated we cannot take that role,” MCWMC president Rufo Colayco told the Inquirer by phone.

He said the company could not compromise the safety of Tarlac, which remains ASF-free.

According to Colayco, they have no appropriate bio-safety technology to handle the disease.

The MCWMC drew flak when it accepted a contract of the Bureau of Customs to take 26 truckloads of garbage from Canada in July 2015.

The Tarlac provincial government issued a resolution directing the company not to accept foreign waste./lzb