For the 80 tons per day volume, the project will provide direct employment to a total of 97 personnel working into two-8 hour shift per day, 365 days of the year. Some workers are involved in concrete brick production, maintenance, utility and security services, and administrative staff.
The personnel complement for the Central Material Recovery and Composting Facility will include the following:
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Table 7.4
Central Material Recovery and Composting Facility Personnel Complement
MRF operations 62
Concrete bricks operation 12
Maintenance / Electrician 6
Security 3
Drivers and Helpers 3
Total Direct Workers 86
Administration and Accounting 6
Supervision and Facility Management 5
Total Direct Personnel 97
In order to avoid displacement of existing scavenger workers, the Facility Manager shall train and employ workers all to come from the city, except the management and supervisory and technical staff. The workers are to be paid at not less than the legal minimum wage rates. They are also provided with employee benefits including uniforms (three uniforms per year) and safety devices, and shall be covered with Social Security and medical care benefits.
The total personnel requirement for the entire facility includes those from the existing collection services of PSD, the Central Material Recovery and Composting Facility as mentioned above, the agri demo garden, the butterfly farm, the residuals management area, products center, motor pool, security, maintenance personnel, cafeteria, and the administrative staff. The actual requirement is seasonal as it increases or decreases depending upon the actual requirement during particular periods. This however will be handled by the hiring of casuals, as is the current practice in the City.
The existing and estimated personnel requirement is as shown in Table 9.2 Tabulation of Existing and Proposed PSD Personnel with the Operation of the Material Recovery and Composting Facility.
Part of the program will be introducing other forms of livelihood that will improve the living conditions of the worker families.
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SITE DEVELOPMENT PLAN
* Land Site Requirements
On the site will be constructed initially a 2,650 sq. m. building structure roofed and concrete floored (with a greenhouse design) to house the processing and sorting equipments. There will also be a 500 sq. m. Storage Shed / Recycling Center, twenty- three (23) Composting Green House Type Bins with hollow block. Total required area is 5 hectares including demo agri-garden and other facilities describe above.
A portion of the land will be devoted to organic farming to test and demonstrate the efficacy of the organic compost fertilizer to be produced. The site will have electric three phase power lines, water system and drainage. An interceptor canal along the perimeter of the Central Material Recovery and Composting Facility shall be constructed to intercept and control the volume of surface run-off of the project site catchments area.
A completely design has already been prepared and is attached to the study.
The City Engineer’s office and the ICSWMB shall supply all the technical specifications needed for the CMRCF installation, including electrical power requirements and layout, building and equipment layout, structural specifications, other civil works such as drainage and culverts, water and electrical system, storage facility arrangements to be in compliance with DENR regulations, and other pertinent laws. See Figure 2.2 Site Development Plan Of CMRCF.
7.7 CLOSURE PLAN OF EXISTING OPEN DUMPSITE
Based in Article 5 Section 37 of R.A 9003, No open dumps shall be operated upon the affectivity of act, provided that LGU shall convert its open dump into controlled fill with the following guidelines;
1.) Regular inert cover 2.) Drainage control
3.) Fencing for litter control & waste picking 4.) Maintain access road
5.) Vegetation
6.) Provision for aerobic & anaerobic decomposition
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7.) Record keeping & monitoring 8.) Hydrological setting.
The City is currently operating a controlled dumpsite, which shall be closed upon the operation of the Central MRCF and of the Barangay MRF. The improvement activity set at the dumpsite was covering with soil, peripheral site drainage control for run-off surface water, and installation of vent pipes for gas emission and medical assistance for the resident’s area. These plans to rehabilitate and upgrade controlled dumpsite have been initially initiated by the LGU and City Engineer Office.
7.8 MARKET DEVELOPMENT PLAN AND LIVELIHOOD OPERATIONS * Disposal of Central MRCF Products
The marketing of the Central Material Recovery and Composting Facility products is an essential element in the success and sustainability of the operation of this facility. For this purpose, the City shall adopt the strategy as explained below.
The program of operations of the Central Material Recovery and Composting Facility shall have the following four (4) outputs:
1.) Recyclable saleable materials, 2.) Organic compost fertilizer,
3.) Residuals into concrete bricks, and
4.) Baled residuals for long storage or future inventory disposition.
The recyclables although already sorted at the household and collected on different schedules will be finally reclassified, sorted, washed and baled at the Central Material Recovery and Composting Facility. There are regular junk buyers located in the city and the nearby provinces but as the volumes of recyclables develop, the buyers will be the one to converge to the City based on the experience of other managed Central Material Recovery and Composting Facility projects.
The current scavengers of the City particularly in Barangay Santiago shall be given the opportunity to form their own multipurpose scavengers cooperative. If they are able to form this properly, the city can allow the Coop members to sort out all of the saleable recyclables as part of their group’s income instead of to the City. The City shall
not however pay them for the sorting and classification effort. The scavengers shall benefit mostly from non- competition, working in a roofed environment and away from rain and sunshine all day long, and support benefits for uniforms and safety devices.
The advantages of organic compost will be demonstrated in the remaining vacant land areas adjacent to the CMRCF site and in nearby farmlands to be leased (see fig. 2.2 Site Development Plan of the Central Material Recovery and Composting Facility in Brgy. Bonbonon). These farms will become demonstration and training areas for the city residents.
The Facility Manager should also have a regular organic farming and sales distribution group that takes care of marketing of the organic compost fertilizers and a network of market outlets. This shall be included in the Terms of Reference for the bidding, and will thus insure a steady outlet of the CMRCF outputs.
The application of compost in various Abaca plantations in the City to demonstrate the quality and growth of properly organically fertilized plants is also possible market strategy. Abaca takes two years to provide for its first income, but, subsequently after, the multiplier effect is in multiples of 5. Wholesale supply of compost to abaca and other plantations in the Philippines especially now that many developing countries in the world favors organically grown agri products could also be negotiated by the marketing section of the CMRCF.
Concrete bricks will be manufactured during the day shift. Output will primarily be transferred to the city for their civil works, infrastructure and beautification programs under a pre- agreed upon cost arrangement. The CEO and Barangays could avail of these products in their non load bearing bricks requirements at a reduced price but with the income still accruing to the CMRCF operations remainder of the production will be sold by a full time sales person through a wholesale distribution scheme to be developed in detail by the Iligan City Solid Waste Management Board: TWC on Livelihood and Marketing. *
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Table 7.5 ICSWMB-TWC on Livelihood and Marketing Activities/Plans Livelihood Development Marketing
Action Plan
A. Brgy. Bonbonon A. Brgy. Bonbonon By December 2006-form two(2)
By December 2006- buyer for compost, non-bio products, recycled items, cut flower, handicraft, etc., is already Available (identified).
* Suggestions: 1. Survey of potential market 2. Marketing Summit
3. Recyclers forums 4. Advertisement (?) Issue- How to sell the non-bio to the
Coops (system-pricing-monitoring of sales) - How to convince the farmers to use the
compost product.
Market support in- place by 1st semester of 2007 for:
- Compost sales
- Recycled items /products - Non- bio products