Solid Waste Management 101
Just wanna share a few tips and tidbits on solid waste management for schools, which I use whenever I do lectures in schools.
Solid Waste is the most visible environmental problem in the country.
Here in the metro, wherever we look, we see garbage. People have gotten so used to throwing everything on the streets, especially commuters, that the local government’s spending a lot of the allocated budget just to have the streets cleaned.
Studies estimate that here in the Metro, each Pinoy generates half a kilo of garbage per day, which is about 10M tons a year. Worst, this is expected to increase by 40% in the next decades, UNLESS we do something about it.
So what must we do? We must follow the law.
The Ecological Solid Waste Management Act (RA 9003) was enacted so we could solve this problem on garbage. Through it, the National Solid Waste Management Commission was created — this is the body to oversee everything that’s being implemented as far as RA9003 is concerned.
This law also mandates the segregation of waste. It’s no longer Nabubulok and Di Nabubulok, like what we know from gradeschool.
Segregation is now like this:
Recyclable (paper, plastic, steel, bottles or glasses)
Compostable (garden and kitchen waste)
Residuals (useless materials that cant be saved/sold). We also have Special Wastes or those that are toxic and hazardous.
Next, i’ll be posting the proper way to segregate this type of wastes.
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