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AMID rising electric power rates, the Department of Energy is encouraging local government units to embrace waste-to-energy technology. Of course, waste-to-energy definitely sounds better than making the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant operational. Adopting waste-to-energy technology will make the Philippines "at par with progressive nations in the world," said lawyer Javier Flores of Waste Management Inc. at last month's signing of the memorandum of agreement between the province of Cebu, Flores' company and Dutch company Harvest Waste.
Flores cited China, Japan, the United States and the United Kingdom as among the "progressive countries" burning their way out of the trash piles while simultaneously generating electricity and heat. True, while Putin lets missiles rain over Ukraine, homes in — for example — Denmark that are heated by local waste-to-energy plants are better off than those on natural gas. The rate of the latter has soared as a result of the sanctions imposed by the European Union on Russian fuel exports.
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