Total Waste Management Group marked its 10th year of operation this year providing waste management services as a locally owned and operated business.
Total waste management over the years has provided industrial services such as logistics, mechanical shut downs and turn around as well as commissioning services, also providing environmental advice services such as environmental monitoring and reporting and man power and development.
Assistant Safety Coordinator Bruno Siare said “Total Waste Management is a nationally owned company with over 160 active employees. The national content for TWM’s workforce is just over 80 percent. TWM strives to be a leader in the industry to create positive environmental and social impact through TWM operations and communities it works with”.
MD of TWM Kori Chans says the formation of strategic partnership goals for TWM is investing in gender equality.
Managing Director for Total Waste management Kori Chan said “TWM is very much putting an investment into infrastructure and asset development. Looking at building capabilities in Papua New Guineans, looking at building capacity in PNG. Kori said over the last 10 years TWM did not have TWM didn’t have the capabilities to treat different types of waste in the country TWM had to export the waste overseas”.
Kori said over the years TWM has accumulated on the number of staff as well as services and products to provide to Papua New Guinean’s. He said TWM has started to diversify quite quickly and that it’s all about providing integrated approach to the type of services we offer.
Other services that TWM has on site is the Industrial Waste Water Treatment Plant designed to treat contaminated water from the industrial and commercial sector such as the oil and gas sector and other industries such as beverage companies.
TWMs Management Rep Dan Dixon said currently in construction on the site and first of its kind in PNG is the land field which is fully engineered and built to international standard and will contain once completed around 11,400 cubic meters of waste which will go through various treatment facilities on site before deposited into land field.
TWM also has a high temperature incinerator which has a processing capacity of 500 kilos per hour that incinerates waste from Port Moresby processing about a hundred and fifty tones of various wastes in a month.
President of Solar Energy Association of PNG, Christian Lohberger said “TWM is doing a great job supporting the development goals of Papua New Guinea and that TWM Managing Director Kori Chan is doing a good job in articulating TWM’s visions and goal and fully support the work of TWM in the country”.
Total Waste management facility is a 20 hectors site that currently holds an L2 permit an environmental permit and is in the process of obtaining its level three environmental permit which is expected to be delivered by early next year based on the type of services provided by TWM.