Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, January 18) — International cement manufacturer Cemex on Tuesday signed an agreement with Manila Water Corporation to produce sustainable and clean energy from organic matter recovered from the latter’s treatment plants.
“In this partnership, we are pioneering in this country the processing of biosolids collected from multiple sewerage facilities and using them as alternative use. This is circularity and innovation that help lessen our dependence on fossil fuel,” Cemex President and CEO Luis Guillermo Franco Carillo said.
Carillo said Cemex is already using at least 50% alternative fuel in one of its plants and it aims to make it 70% by 2030.
“There’s always a cost to disposing of biosolids. For us, we can channel those costs to something more productive that benefits Cemex as well, then jointly we are able to manage that aspect of operations and hopefully we can assist,” Manila Water President and CEO Jose Victor Emmanuel de Dios said.
“We’re just chatting that with fuel prices and power prices going up, largely driven by prices of oil going up last year, it works both ways for us,” he added.
CNN Philippines correspondent Gerg Cahiles contributed to this report.
