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This document discusses ecological solid waste management. It defines environment and ecological solid waste management. It discusses Republic Act 9003 which considers waste as a resource. The benefits of ecological solid waste management include simplified waste management and enhanced environmental balance. Specific objectives include reducing pollution and utilizing waste. The document also discusses composting and the three Rs of waste management: reduce, reuse, recycle.

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Module7 Environment

This document discusses ecological solid waste management. It defines environment and ecological solid waste management. It discusses Republic Act 9003 which considers waste as a resource. The benefits of ecological solid waste management include simplified waste management and enhanced environmental balance. Specific objectives include reducing pollution and utilizing waste. The document also discusses composting and the three Rs of waste management: reduce, reuse, recycle.

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ENVIRONMENT

Module 7
Environment a n d Ecological
Solid Wa ste Ma na gement

• ENVIRONMENT

It is perceived as the immediate surroundings of an individual. In a


boarder context, environment is a complex system which deals with a network of
living and non-living entities.

• ECOLOGICAL SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT

It is a zero-waste management through total recycling for the


community. Its main objective is to make the community permanently and regularly
clean, sanitary and litter less. It also inspires and elicits maximum voluntary
participation from almost all of the people and various sectors of the community
while persuasively challenging the creativity skills and capabilities for cooperation
and unity.
ECOLOGICAL SOLID WASTE
MANAGEMENT act of 2000 – RA 9003
Republic Act 9003 considers “waste as a resource that can be recovered,” emphasizing
re-cycling, re-use and composting as methods to minimize and eventually manage the
waste program.

This act aims for the reduction of solid waste through “source reduction and waste
minimization measures including composting, recycling, re-use, recovery, green
charcoal process, and others before collection, treatment, and disposal in appropriate
and environmentally sound solid waste management facilities in accordance with
ecologically sustainable development principles”. (Section2-C)

It also sets to “ensure the proper segregation, collection, transport, storage, treatment,
and disposal of solid waste through formulation and adoption of the best environmental
practice in ecological waste management excluding incineration”. (Section 2-D)
BENEFITS OF ECOLOGICAL SOLID
WASTE MANAGEMENT

 Simplified, hygienic, dignified management of household waste


 Maximum and optimum recovery or retrieval of much needed, costly
materials

 Enhanced ecological balance of the environment, eliminating open


dump sites, lessening pollution of our soil, air and water resources
Cont…
 Served as a springboard or starting point for useful, timely household or barangay level
projects to help our people endure or overcome the present economic crisis such as:
 Food production (backyard vegetable gardens, mini-space, container gardens, eco-
pounds using household waste water for raising kangkong, gabi, kuhol, tialapia,
azola, etc.)
 Cottage industries (handicraft, house-décor, toys) utilizing discarded materials and
generating employment for housewives, out of school youth and school children
 Herbal gardens, ornamental plant nurseries, fruit bearing, fuel or firewood supplying
trees (like ipil ipil), organic compost-making techniques, greening and reforestation
projects

 Trash-to-cash projects to generate seed capital for health services and health
education projects, and vocational training programs
 Easily accessible/affordable, result-visible projects that can be easily understood by
almost everyone
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES OF ECOLOGICAL WASTE
MANAGEMENT

1. Utilizing appropriate technology in existing dump site to prolong their life


2. Initially reduce volume of waste stream that mix both compostable and
non-compostable waste

3. Reduce pollution by lessening unnecessary burning


4. Reduce the incidence of diseases associated with unsanitary or unhygienic
waste disposal
5. Utilize waste material for income generating projects such as urban gardening
and livestock raising, cottage industry
METHODOLOGY OF THE FIVE F’S TOTAL RECYCLING AND
WHAT ARE THE MOST PRODUCTIVE/USEFUL/HEALTHFUL
USES OF EACH OF THE FIVE F’S?

The two kinds of solid waste are:

1. Non-biodegradable or non-compostable
- Factory returnable can be used for handicrafts or sold to junk shops

2. Biodegradable or compostable
- Feed materials can be used for house pets, livestock or for composting

- Fertilizer materials can be used for making compost to enrich the soil for
growing vegetables, medicinal plants and ornamental plants and fruit trees

- Fuel materials can be used for cooking purposes

- Filling materials are unusable or unwanted materials which can be compactly


packed in plastic bags buried low places putting stones and soil over these
filling materials
Why a re composta ble dea dly when n ot
properly managed?
Even if organic compostable are just 10 to 20% per
households and with lesser volume, the potential problems of
increasing the density of flies, cockroaches, rodents (rats) by
providing food, harborages and breeding grounds are really
dangerous.
Every minute, three Filipinos die, 80% are most related
to filth-borne associated diseases or poor management of
solid or liquid waste. The sad thing is that most of them are
children below 6 years of age.
Compostable or organic biomass when allowed on the
surface, water body would mean reduction of dissolved oxygen due
to organism planktons growth competing with the oxygen. This
result to reduction of fish population due to fish kill bloom is
inevitable. Siltation sedimentation caused by organic biomass will
eventually kill the coral reef (hence 70% of corals are damaged)
due to compostable being eroded by rain.
Why dump si tes i ncrea se
ecological problems?
1. To maintain a dump site is very expensive and it lowers the
values of the land plus it attracts household pests and pollution
problems
2. Scavengers are difficult to control at dump sites. The practice of
dump site sorting will bring more misery to the poor and will
increase the disease pattern with volume of waste uncontrolled,
top soil covering will be very expensive in both equipment and
energy use
3. Pollution will always be the problem in all dump sites, especially
during rainy days. Air pollution will add gases that are highly
toxic.
4. The methane generated by methanuric bacteria if uncollected or
not properly use can contribute 20 times more warming than
carbon dioxide in vehicles.
COMPOSTING

It is a biological process in which organic


materials such as vegetable trimmings, fruit
peelings, kitchen refuse, dry leaves cut
grasses and plant parts are broken down into
a soil-like product. It is a form of recycling, a
natural way of returning nutrients to the soil.
What are the types of small-scale
What are the benefits of composting? composters?
• By composting organic wastes at home, one
• Twin pits
can produce a soil enriches which can be used
• Paso-paso or clay flower pots compost garden
in gardening
• Backyard compost pile
• It reduces the incidence of household pests by
minimizing their food supply
• It reduces the valuable landfill spaces normally
used to dispose this materials
THE THREE TYPES OF Rs OF S O L ID WASTE
MANAGEMENT
1. R is for REDUCE. Avoid wasteful consumption of goods. Begin by asking the
question: “Do I really need it?” in doing so, we minimize waste and conserve
our natural resources. Conservation like charity begin within thyself.

2. R is for REUSE. When practicable reuse items that is still useful instead of just
throwing them away. It would greatly help if we patronize goods that are
reusable rather than throw away types.

3. R is for RECYCLE. Waste can be valuable resource. Items that are useless or
of little may mean great value to someone.
SOURCES OF SOLID WASTE IN A
COMMUNITY
1. Household wastes – waste generated at the household level
2. Commercial-Industrial wastes – generated by restaurants, eateries, offices,
markets, talipapa, plant mills, factories (including such as chemicals, paints and
sand)
3. Farm and Agricultural wastes – farm manure and crop residues
4. Institutional wastes – generated by hospitals, schools, churches and prisons
5. Mining wastes – slag heaps and coal refuse piles
6. Miscellaneous and Specialized wastes – residues of sewage treatment
plants, ash from incinerators and residues from the combustion of solid fuels,
debris caused by disasters (fires, typhoons, flood, etc.) large waste from
demolitions and construction rubble, and dead animals.
7. Hazardous wastes – wastes that pose a potential hazard to living creatures
because they are toxic or lethal, non-degradable or persistent in nature, and
may cause detrimental cumulative effects.
FACTORS THAT AFFECT WASTE
GENERATION
1. The state of the national economy – as standards arise, there is a corresponding
increase in the quantity and quality of wastes
2. The lifestyle of the people – reflected in product marketing techniques, such as the
clearly perceptible shift in consumer preferences for pre-packaged foodstuff, the
increase in use of paper lined with plastics for packaging, and the use of disposable
diapers.
3. The demographic profile of the population – the greater the number of persons
per household, the greater volume of waste generated
4. The size and type of dwelling – those who dwell in larger and more expensive
type homes produce more waste per capita.
5. Age – young consumers patronize a set of products different from those consumed
by their elders.
FACTORS THAT AFFECT WASTE
GENERATION
6. Religion – consumer preferences in Islamic countries differ greatly
with predominantly Christian nations.

7. The extent to which the 3R’s are carried out – where the
population is more concerned with the environment in general, there
is a concerted effort to cut down waste at the point of origin

8. Presence of pets and domestic animals

9. Seasonal variations
10. Presence of laws and ordinances governing waste
management
11. Company buy-lack guarantees for used containers and
packaging
MODULE 7 – Individual Activity:

You have to show or present how you manage


your waste/garbage at home.
If you already have existing waste segregation,
show how you manage the segregation in your
household (include pictures).
If you do not have waste segregation at home,
kindly plan how will you start segregating?

Deadline of submission- January 14, 2023


Email your output- gilianjoan.osas@cvsu.edu.ph

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