A Cebu-based firm has developed a new product
that could be the solution on household and industrial wastes.
“Enzumo Plus! does not only eliminate the bad
bacteria that is known to grow in unregulated landfills, it also leaves
pleasant-smelling scent because of the citronella we put in this product,” said
Lactobiotics Worldwide, Inc. chief executive officer Gigi Sanchez.
Sanchez, an engineer herself, said 100
percent of the odor that comes from the decaying waste can be removed by Enzumo
Plus!, a product she helped invented following the mounting problems on stinky
dumpsites not only in Cebu but in the whole Philippines. Sanchez is the
daughter of the late Cebu Vice Governor Greg Sanchez, and a former Cebu
Provincial Board member herself.
Sanchez said the problem on waste management
in industrial facilities and even beach resorts is mounting, which has prompted
the national government to shutdown Boracay Island, which the President himself
tagged as a “cesspool of wastes”. She explained that waste – water and hard –
if left and untreated and if allowed to flow to the seas, can result to the
degradation of the oceans.
“Everything is connected. The awful things we
do here in the mainland, if we just let it flow to the seas, it can kill the
oceans, too – the resources there, the fishes and other marine lives. So, if we
don’t take care of our wastes here, chances are they pile up higher and higher
in the landfills thereby causing diseases to us humans, and into the oceans
killing the marine lives,” she said.
Enzumo Plus!, she said, can help industrial
plants, beach resorts, schools and households in preventing these problems from
happening. She said Enzumo Plus! can be diluted in water and then sprayed to
the wastes, and right away the citronella scent replaces the foul odor. Sanchez
said Enzumo Plus! is already being used in resorts in their water-treatment
facilities and waste management and in local government units in the Visayas
and Mindanao. She said shopping malls and schools also use the product for their
comfort rooms and material recovery facilities.
This is “not magic”, she said, but a work of
the good bacteria of the lactobacillus family – which is common in all of the
products of Lactobiotics Worldwide. Lactobacillus eats waste and turns it into
lactic acid, thereby eliminating the growth of the bad bacteria. It is the bad
bacteria that causes the foul smell coming from the decaying wastes. With the
foul smell gone, flies and disease-causing insects also go away with it.
Sanchez said with the bad bacteria gone,
flies and mosquitoes will also not thrive in the dumpsites. She noted that
schools also have their own wastes, which can become a hive for dengue-carrying
mosquitoes, and this can be hazardous to the schoolchildren.
“With Enzumo Plus! we also hope to prevent
dengue not only in homes but also in schools,” Sanchez said.
Sanchez said several schools in the Visayas
and Mindanao are already using Enzumo Plus! for their wastes.
Enzumo’s citronella scent lingers after the
substance is sprayed into the waste, she added. Also, Sanchez said their
product, since it is 100-percent organic, is “not harmful to humans, animals
and aquatic life,” that it can be used as insect repellant for adults and
children.
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