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MANILA – Prime Metroline Infrastructure Holdings Corporation (Prime Infra) is partnering with WasteFuel, a next-generation waste to fuels company, to transform landfill waste into sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), and with Netjets, the world’s largest private jet company, to explore putting up a biorefinery in Metro Manila.

“Solid waste management remains a major problem in the Philippines, especially in urban areas like Metro Manila, which generates around 10,000 tons of municipal solid waste per day. A biorefinery that will convert solid waste into SAF will make a big impact in reducing solid waste and ensuing environmental and health hazards, landfill emissions, and fossil fuel use. An added bonus, it will create jobs for the local community,” Prime Infra president Gillaume Lucci said in a statement Tuesday.

Prime Infra’s core investment strategy focuses on infrastructure that is socially relevant and sustainable, working hand in hand with host communities.

Prime Infra, the core infrastructure arm of Filipino Enrique K. Razon Jr., is involved in the business of developing, designing, managing, and operating key infrastructure assets that enable the delivery of essential services to communities in emerging markets worldwide.

At full capacity, the biorefinery will convert 1 million tons of waste into 30 million gallons of SAF annually. Utilizing the most effective technologies available, WasteFuel will produce fuels that burn with at least an 80 percent reduction in carbon compared to fossil-fuel based aviation fuels.

WasteFuels’ SAF has a carbon intensity (CI) of zero compared to an average CI of 41 for alternative SAFs and a baseline of 89.4 for non-renewable aviation fuel.

NetJets executive vice president of administrative services Brand Ferrel said as the leader in private aviation, the company is “deeply invested” in advancing sustainability across the industry.

“After launching our expanded Global Sustainability Program last year, the opportunity to invest in the production of SAF with WasteFuel was a natural step,” he said. “The biorefinery tackles the dual environmental problems of the global waste crisis and sustainable fuel, and we’re excited to take this step toward improving accessibility to SAF in aviation.” (PR)

Source: Philippine News Agency