The Green Charcoal Philippines Inc. (GCPI) will pursue a program it believes can draw public interest to help communicate to the authorities the value of managed environment through a thematic program which is also designed to address the problems of pests, wastes and other environment problems, it likewise hopes this would merit public support, according to Ganzalo Catan Jr., executive vice president of GCPI.
The program dubbed “Modern indigenous proven solutions” is embodied in a position paper presented to the DENR during the Arroyo administration. It involves recycling of water lilies from Laguna Lake and mud from Pasig River which may serve as a model in revitalizing and cleaning the lakes through an organic vermin-composting using the Green Charcoal technology in consonance with Article 1, Section 2C of Republic Act 9003, the Solid Waste Management Law.
Catan said the program was arrived at following results of research on the massive population of water lilies and mud in Laguna Lake and Pasig River.
Water lilies, the research showed, can be converted into alternative fuel while mud can be made into vermicast (organic fertilizer) through the company’s patented Green Charcoal technology.
Green Charcoal technology, explains Gonzalo Catan, converts biowaste into green charcoal in the form of pallets, fire log and briquette and is environment friendly. It is an activated carbon produced from coconut shell, coal, banana preelings and other forest wastes using a Toyota Hi-Ace 4-K engine that runs on 100-percent green charcoal hydrogen fuel, the cleanest fuel, there is, in lieu of petroleum fuel which is harmful to the environment, humans and plants.
Activated carbon is an amorphous carbon subjected to thermal treatment with oxidizing gasses and vapors or a mixture of bath (steam) to increase its adsorptive properties.