Waste management in the Philippines
INTRODUCTION
The Philippines is looming with garbage problems despite the passage of the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act or the Republic Act (RA) 9003. In 2007, the first quarter data from the National Solid Waste Management Commission shows that there are 677 open dumpsites, 343 controlled dumps, and 21 landfills in the country. An additional 307 dump sites are subject for closure or rehabilitation plans but without definite schedules for enforcement. About 215 additional landfills are being proposed to be set up nationwide.
How can the citizens of the Philippines contribute or help solve this problem and what is the best solution to solve this problem? In what ways can we reinforce waste management and resolve its underlying threat to our environment and our communities. How do we effectively modify our perspective in seeing the solid waste management problem as it poses a serious threat to our country as a whole?
This paper enhance the reader to manage proper ways of disposal, the methods of proper ways of disposal and to bring about the conditions which enable the readers to uplift themselves, bringing into play their human capacities in the community.
Issues of Garbage in the Philippines
The more waste in the Philippines causes the increase in global warming, high temperature and less oxygen because of the air pollution. The Philippines’ trash increased by 40 percent in 2010 and the ocean found 1,355,236 items of trash and people, nearly 400,000 volunteers, gather from around the world just to help in the Philippines. The lists of the garbage in the ocean were plastic bags 679,957, paper bags 253,013 and food wrappers 103,226. Also recovered were 38,394 pieces of clothing and shoes, 55,814 tobacco-related items including cigarette butts 34,154, lighters and wrappers, and 11,077 diapers. These can cause poison and toxic in the ocean and you may see these trashes in some body of water like the Manila Bay.
In 2006, garbage
The Philippines is looming with garbage problems despite the passage of the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act or the Republic Act (RA) 9003. In 2007, the first quarter data from the National Solid Waste Management Commission shows that there are 677 open dumpsites, 343 controlled dumps, and 21 landfills in the country. An additional 307 dump sites are subject for closure or rehabilitation plans but without definite schedules for enforcement. About 215 additional landfills are being proposed to be set up nationwide.
How can the citizens of the Philippines contribute or help solve this problem and what is the best solution to solve this problem? In what ways can we reinforce waste management and resolve its underlying threat to our environment and our communities. How do we effectively modify our perspective in seeing the solid waste management problem as it poses a serious threat to our country as a whole?
This paper enhance the reader to manage proper ways of disposal, the methods of proper ways of disposal and to bring about the conditions which enable the readers to uplift themselves, bringing into play their human capacities in the community.
Issues of Garbage in the Philippines
The more waste in the Philippines causes the increase in global warming, high temperature and less oxygen because of the air pollution. The Philippines’ trash increased by 40 percent in 2010 and the ocean found 1,355,236 items of trash and people, nearly 400,000 volunteers, gather from around the world just to help in the Philippines. The lists of the garbage in the ocean were plastic bags 679,957, paper bags 253,013 and food wrappers 103,226. Also recovered were 38,394 pieces of clothing and shoes, 55,814 tobacco-related items including cigarette butts 34,154, lighters and wrappers, and 11,077 diapers. These can cause poison and toxic in the ocean and you may see these trashes in some body of water like the Manila Bay.
In 2006, garbage
References: • Guidelines for waste management with special focus on areas with limited infrastructure • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_management • http://gogreenamericatv.com/4-methods-of-proper-waste-management/ • http://imagineechoprojectswaste.blogspot.com/2008/04/alarming-waste-problem-in-philippines.html • http://cng0268.blogspot.com/2011/07/environmental-problem-issues-of-garbage.html • How to develop a waste management and Disposal strategy • http://www.environmentalistseveryday.org/solid-waste-management/environment-friendly-waste-disposal/waste-reduction.php • Solid Waste Management Made Easy