Ecological Solid Waste Management Act

The law emphasizes solid waste avoidance and volume reduction through source reduction and wastes immolation measures, with the protection of public health and the environment as the primary goal. There are issues to be addressed here:

• lack of management system,
• lack of public support for environmental concerns,
• lack of public awareness through information and education.

Solid waste management whose importance is directly related to public health, resource management and utilization, and maintaining a clean environment, Is necessary For ensuring human development.

Solid waste management benefits the population In many ways. Past efforts to promote waste segregation at source have failed despite the Issuance of city that have been cited for the non-compliance include indifference of local residents to participate in community waste management-related activities, local government collection services’ non- allowance for segregated waste collection, residents’ attitude that government has he sole responsibility over garbage management and lack of information and education campaigns.

The City Government admitted that they failed to focus on solid waste management concerns and had difficulty enforcing the policy due to a lack of budget and resources to educate the public on the proper means of disposing garbage in accordance with Republic Act 9003 or the Ecological Management Law. To address this problem, I think education drive and a budget to teach residents about segregation would be needed.

But even if the public will educated, the next problem would be dumping of the segregated waste and it seems that with the worsening economic crisis and unemployment, it is highly likely that the trash cans that would be provided for segregated garbage stolen and sold. Barraging officials should campaign for the adoption of segregation among households within their neighborhood. The “heart and soul” of RA 9003 is monopolizing barraging officers and their constituents to make recovery facilities or areas for recycling household waste.