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Aside from preventing oil dump on waterways, rivers and others, the newly opened biodiesel plant in Davao city could possibly lower the price of diesel to P16 per liter.
With the initiative of the city government and help of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and two Japan-based company, the plant which can process at least 1,000 liters of used cooking oil to biodiesel everyday is now ready to operate.
Shigeto Mizumo, of the company Biomass Japan Inc. said that the city could easily supply the daily requirement of used cooking oil as shown by a feasibility study. He also said that a year before the plant is completed, they were able to collect at least 250,000 liters of used cooking oil from around the city.
According to assistant city administrator Dwight Tristan Domingo, there are at least 10 villages that could be used as used cooking oil collection points.
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The opening ceremonies for the plant was led by Mayor Sara Duterte. She said that the biodiesel produced at the plant would cost only P16 per liter compared to the price of regular diesel which is P29 per liter.
The biodiesel produced at the plant would be tested on 30 jeepneys for the next three months to determine fuel efficiency against regular diesel.
Mizumo said that the biodiesel produced at the plant had already been tested on several government garbage trucks and "there has been no problem at all." After the three months dry run on 30 jeepneys, the biodiesel will be out for public vehicles.
Source: Inquirer
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