POSITION PAPER: REPUBLIC ACT NO.

9003- ECOLOGICAL SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT

ACT OF 2000
INTRODUCTION
Around 35,580 tons of trash are created each day in the Philippines. Overall, every individual in
the nation produces around 0.5 kg and 0.3 kg of trash each day in the urban and rural,
separately. All human exercises affect nature to a more prominent or lesser degree. Regardless
of whether an action ought to be attempted relies upon the balance between cost and
advantage.
The worldwide local area perceived that Solid Waste Management (SWM) is an issue that
requires serious consideration. The forceful pursuit for financial development, by emerging
nations like the Philippines, has come about in the manufacture, distribution, and utilization of
products and generation of age that add to ecological degradation also, worldwide
environmental change. Accessible information showed that the Philippines is the ninth most
among the nations in danger from environmental change because of the ascent of ocean levels,
exceptional tempest floods, and dry seasons. This is intensely showed in the incessant also,
extreme floods the nation is encountering from destroying hurricanes which, in many cases, are
because of environmental change.
Alongside economic progress, the fast development in the populace has additionally made
waste administration a significant natural test for the country.

SOLUTION
The government proclaims the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000 state the
following:

(a) Ensure the protection of the public health and environment;

(b) Utilize environmentally-sound methods that maximize the utilization of valuable resources
and encourage resource conservation and recovery;

(c) Set guidelines and targets for solid waste avoidance and volume reduction 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;

(d) Ensure the proper segregation, collection, transport, storage, treatment and disposal of solid
waste through the formulation and adoption of the best environmental practice in ecological
waste management excluding incineration;

(e) Promote national research and development programs for improved solid waste
management and resource conservation techniques, more effective institutional arrangement
and indigenous and improved methods of waste reduction, collection, separation and recovery;

(f) Encourage greater private sector participation in solid waste management;

(g) Retain primary enforcement and responsibility of solid waste management with local
government units while establishing a cooperative effort among the national government, other
local government units, non- government organizations, and the private sector;

(h) Encourage cooperation and self-regulation among waste generators through the application
of market-based instruments;

(i) Institutionalize public participation in the development and implementation of national and
local integrated, comprehensive, and ecological waste management programs; and

(j) Strength the integration of ecological solid waste management and resource conservation
and recovery topics into the academic curricula of formal and non-formal education in order to
promote environmental awareness and action among the citizenry.

Although this Act. is consolidated, many people are ignored and continue to disregard caring for
our nature.
So how might we assist with tackling the solid waste issue? There are a lot of things that we
utilize each day and afterward, dispose of them by tossing them in the trash. Unfortunately, this
outcome is in a heap of trash as we toss old things, just as the bundling of new things. Reducing
solid waste is diminishing the measure of garbage that goes to landfills. Reduce, Reuse and
Recycle are the most widely recognized techniques to decrease landfill waste. Landfill waste
represents a huge issue as it has a financial and ecological effect, and besides, because of the
slow deterioration rate, which it takes a thousand of year, a few sections of land has as of now
been basically delivered futile that might have been really utilized for setting up new private
states or businesses.

CONCLUSION
Human lifestyles have put a strain on the climate and have caused awkwardness in the
biological systems by the delivering, burning-through, and wasting of regular assets. Most
nations obviously effectively affect the climate because of the Solid Waste age with financial
advancement since the normal assets are utilized, and waste and contamination are delivered.
In this way, the worry towards the administration of strong waste as a vital piece of feasible
improvement has expanded.