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P10-M CEBU INCINERATOR MAY BE JUNKED

Cebu City, Nov. 29, 1997 - A garbage crisis looms in Cebu with the reported decision by city officials not to operate a P10-million waste incinerator plant.

The incinerator is a major component of the P220-million Inayawan sanitary landfill which is part of the Metro Cebu Development Project Phase II, funded by the Japan Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund.

At a public hearing on the plant last Sunday, an American chemistry professor called the facility a "Mickey Mouse."

Dr. Paul Connet of St. Lawrence University of New York said "it is not safe to burn paper, it's a joke."

The hearing was called after the Mactan Dev. Project asked for a barangay council resolution endorsing the project. The endorsement is a requirement for the issuance of an environmental compliance certificate. Environmentalists and villagers have been opposing the incinerator.

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