“Who said there is no money in garbage?” Quezon City administrator Victor Endriga asked, as the city government rejected a proposal made by Taiwan’s capital of Taipei that offered to buy the city’s 1,200 metric tons of garbage generated daily.

Endriga said he and Mayor Herbert Bautista, along with Garry Domingo of the Business Permit and Licensing Office met with business tycoon Manny Pangilinan to thresh out details of a plan to put up a waste-to-energy plant somewhere in Barangay Payatas or Barangay Bagong Silangan near San Mateo, Rizal.

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