ECOLOGICAL/

ENVIRONMENTAL
MANAGEMENT
 ECOLOGICAL/
ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Ecology comes from the Greek words “oikos” or house and “logos” the
study of it. It is the scientific study of the interrelationship of plants,
animals, and the environment. It is misused as a synonym for environment.

 The Filipino needs a lot of education in ecology

 It is very alarming to note that there is an alarming and rapidly
deteriorating ecological situation.
 There is a continuing rape of our forests and seas, unabated soil erosion
of our mountains and shores, destruction of watersheds, the drying up of
our rivers and their pollution with harmful chemicals.
 The wanton exploitation of our land and waters is the root of many of
economic and political problems.
 The Many Faces of Planet Earth

 People all over the world are increasingly alarmed over the rapid
deterioration of our natural environment.
 The continuing depletion of the ozone layer of the planet earth as well as
the global warming through the “greenhouse” effect have been the
object of many studies to save our planet from eventual destruction .
 There is a prediction that there will be an increase in the incidence of
skin cancer and other ailments due to harmful solar radiation. The rising
global temperature caused the melting of glaciers and polar caps which
will result in severe flooding. The greenhouse effect is compounded as
countries continue to burn fossil fuels like coal, oil, natural gas and
other petroleum by-products which increase the carbon dioxide content
in the atmosphere.
 Rainforests are essential in the functioning and maintenance of natural
water systems.
 Marine resources are greatly affected by pollution which are brought
by industrial wastes and mine tailings that are dumped in our rivers,
lakes and seas.
 The Philippine Situation
 The air that we breathe is no longer safe. It poses
danger to our health.
 The unhealthy attitude of Filipinos throwing
garbage into the rivers, lakes and seas can cause
death.
 The Filipinos living in the mountains do not stop
cutting trees; Philippine forests are not being
conserved.
 Many Filipinos suffer the consequences of our
own abuses to mother nature
 Environment Development
 The prevalence of many of our current environmental changes-air and water pollution,
global warming, habitat fragmentation and conversion- is in part due to the way in
which we have built our neighborhoods, communities and metropolitan areas during
the past half-century-dispersed, inaccessible, and automobile- in a word, sprawling.
 The nation’s air quality has suffered. Pedestrians and transit-friendly-communities
have a positive impact on air quality by improving travel alternatives.
 As we build, we replace our natural landscape-forests, wetlands, and grasslands with
streets, parking lots, rooftops and other impervious surfaces. Although compact
development generates higher runoff and pollutant loads within a development, total
runoff and pollutant loads are offset by reductions in surrounding undeveloped areas.
 As development moves further and further to the metropolitan fringe, it completes with
open space habitat and prime farmland. Loss of open space impacts the environment
in multiple ways.
a. We lose many of the natural landscape features we value- forests, wetlands, etc.
b. We lose the functions that these features provide- runoff control, wildlife migration,
etc.
c. We hasten the use of lesser quality soils for production and increased dependency on
irrigation, fertilizers and chemicals. The communities should pursue open space
protection and development objectives through the clustering of development activity
away from sensitive natural areas
What is the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000?
 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.
 It sets to 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.
 This act gives strong emphasis on the role of the municipal and local government
units (LGUs). It empowers the LGUs to create solid waste management
communities even in the barangay level. This requires the participation of NGOs,
people’s organizations, church leaders, educators, and other business and
community associations.
Types of waste identified by RA 9003
1. Solid Wastes- all discarded household, commercial wastes, non-hazardous
institutional and industrial wastes, street sweepings, construction debris,
agricultural wastes, and other non-hazardous/non-toxic solid wastes.
2. Special wastes- these are household hazardous wastes such as paints,
thinners, household batteries, lead-acid batteries, spray canisters, and the
like. These include waste from residential and commercial sources that
compose of bulky wastes, consumer electronics, white goods, yard wastes
that are collected separately, oil and tires. These wastes are usually
handled separately from other residential and commercial wastes.
3. Hazardous wastes- these are solid, liquid, contained gaseous or
semisolid wastes that may cause or contribute to the increase in
mortality, or in serious or incapacitating reversible illness or acute/chronic
effect on the health of people and other organisms.
4. Infectious Wastes- mostly generated by hospitals and wastes resulting
from mining activities including contaminated soil and debris.
What is RA 9003?

Republic Act 9003 considers “waste as a resource that can

be recovered,” emphasizing recycling, re-use, and composting as
methods to minimize and eventually manage the waste problem.
It 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.
It 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 sustainable development
principles”.