Environment

Protection
Solid Waste Management
 SOLID
SOLID WASTE
WASTE

Household Commercial Institutional & Industrial

Street Sweepings Construction debris Agricultural

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 SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT

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 Republic Act No. 9003
(Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000)
• provides the legal framework for the country’s systematic, comprehensive,
and ecological solid waste management program that shall ensure protection
of public health and the environment
• It also provides for the necessary institutional mechanisms with the creation
of the:

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Solid Waste
Generation, Sources,
and Composition
 WASTE GENERATION
Table 1. Waste Generation of the Philippines,
2012-2016 (Tons per day)
Region 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
1 1,706.17 1,739.54 1,769.90 1,800.27 1,830.64
2 1,100.64 1,120.19 1,139.75 1,159.31 1,178.86
3 3,631.99 3,696.52 3,761.05 3,825.58 3,890.12
4A 4,145.52 4,219.18 4,292.83 4,366.49 4,440.15
4B 909.43 925.59 941.74 957.90 974.06
5 1,878.74 1,912.12 1,945.50 1,978.88 2,012.26
6 2,700.14 2,748.11 2,796.09 2,844.06 2,892.04
7 2,605.68 2,651.97 2,698.27 2,744.57 2,790.86
8 1,479.47 1,505.75 1,532.04 1,558.33 1,584.61
9 1,391.95 1,416.68 1,441.41 1,466.15 1,490.88
10 1,693.94 1,724.03 1,754.13 1,784.23 1,814.32
11 1,818.05 1,850.35 1,882.65 1,914.95 1,947.26
12 1,348.20 1,372.15 1,396.10 1,420.06 1,444.01
13 884.69 900.41 916.13 931.85 947.57
CAR 620.64 631.67 642.70 653.72 664.75
NCR 8,601.60 8,754.43 8,907.26 9,060.09 9,212.92
ARMM 907.64 923.76 939.89 956.02 972.14
TOTAL 37,424.49 38,092.45 38,757.44 39,422.46 40,087.45
Source: NSWMC
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 WASTE SOURCES
Figure 1. Solid Waste Sources (2013)

Institutional
12%
Industrial
4%

Residential
Commercial
Industrial
Institutional

Residential
Commercial 57%
27%

Source: NSWMC
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 WASTE COMPOSITION
Figure 2. Solid Waste Composition (2015)

Special/Hazardous
2%
Residual
18%

Biodegradable
Recyclable
Residual
Biodegradable Special/Hazardous
52%

Recyclable
28%

Source: NSWMC
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Current Solid Waste
Management
 COLLECTION
Responsibilities of Local Government Units (LGU)
Collection Transport Disposal

 Nationwide, about 40 to 85 percent of

the solid wastes generated is collected
while in Metro Manila it is 85 percent.
Open Dump 
The poorer areas of cities, municipalities,
Tucks
and rural barangays are typically
Common unserved or under-served.
Types of  It is interesting to note, however, that the
Collection
85 percent collection rate of Metro
Vehicles
Compactor Manila is above the average collection
Trucks rate of other countries in the Philippines’
income bracket (around 69%) and among
East Asia and Pacific countries (around
72%).
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 WASTE DISPOSAL
Open Dumpsites Controlled Dumpsites Sanitary Landfills

Cavite City Open Dumpsite Payatas Controlled Dumpsite Bataan Sanitary Landfill
SLFs are waste disposal sites designed,
constructed, operated and maintained
Controlled dump sites are in a manner that exert engineering
disposal sites at which solid control over significant potential
waste is deposited in accordance environment impacts arising from the
with the minimum prescribed development and operation of the
standards of site operation. facility (RA 9003).

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 • As of 2016, there are still 403 open
dumpsites and 108 controlled
dumpsites in operation.

• While SLFs increase from 48 in 2010

to 118 in 2016, LGUs with access to
SLFs remain below 15 percent.

• It is interesting to note that the

DENR is now pushing for the
establishment of cluster sanitary
landfills or common sanitary
landfills in the country to address
waste disposal problems. Through
Section 13 of the Philippine Constitution provides cluster sanitary landfills, local
that LGUs may group themselves, consolidate or government units (LGUs) may share
coordinate their efforts, services, and resources for funds in establishing sanitary
purposes commonly beneficial to them in landfills and consolidate efforts on
accordance with law. solid waste management efforts.

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 DIVERSION AND RECOVERY
As of 2015, solid waste diversion rate in Metro Manila is 48 percent while outside Metro Manila
the rate is 46 percent.

Reuse, Recycling, Composting, and other resource-recovery activities.

Materials-recovery Facilities

Sorting Station Drop-off Station Composting Facility Recycling Facility

As of 2016, about 9,883 MRFs are in operation in the country serving 13,155 barangays (31.3% of
the 42,000 barangays in the country).

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 LOCAL SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT (SWM)
BOARDS

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 LOCAL SWM PLANS
As of September 2017, 1,460 SWM plans have been
submitted to the NSWMC Secretariat but
unfortunately, only 318 SWM plans have been
approved so far.
Environment According to the Japan International Cooperation
Management Agency (JICA):
Bureau
- One of the reasons for the slow pace of approval of
SWM plans is the lack of institutional capacity by the
EMB in terms of providing technical support to LGUs.
LGUs’ 10-year SWM Plans

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 OVERCOMING THE CHALLENGES
Majority of LGUs have yet to comply LGUs should be capacitated particularly
with the provisions of RA 9003, part.: on understanding the provisions of the
Act and in formulating SWM Plans.
• establishment of local SWM Boards;
 assist in designing innovative financing
• submission of SWM Plans; mechanisms to undertake SWM
• establishment of MRFs; and, activities
 given assistance on how to access
• closure of all open and controlled
facilities offered by government
dumpsites. financing institutions (GFIs)
 there must be a continuing education
and public awareness
 integration of Ecological Solid Waste
Management (ESWM) in school
curricula at all level

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 OVERCOMING THE CHALLENGES
Office 0f the
Ombudsman
DENR- Solid Waste Management
EMB
Compliance Program
NSWMC
ESWM
LGU Self- Reports are
Excellence
Assessment validated
Awards

• LGUs that fail to comply will be charged administratively or criminally.

• In 2016, criminal and administrative charges were filed against 50 LGUs for
violations of RA 9003 provisions.

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 OVERCOMING THE CHALLENGES
 The measure (Senate Bill 370) filed in the Senate during the 16th Congress amending the
Local Government Code (R.A. 7160) to integrate solid waste collection and disposal as a basic
service, and empower the local Sanggunians to provide for this basic service should be refiled
under the 17th Congress.

 In the House of Representatives, a number of legislative measures have been filed to

strengthen the implementation of RA 9003
a) mandating all elementary and secondary schools to adopt policies implementing solid
waste management (House Bill No. 05087);
b) institutionalizing rewards for compliance (House Bill No. 05915);
c) providing stiffer fines and penalties for illegal disposal of waste materials and violation
of other prohibited acts (House Bill Nos. 770 and 05668); and
d) conducting review, pursuant to the oversight function of congress, of the
implementation of RA 9003 to identify the constraints and challenges faced in enforcing its
provisions (House Bill Nos. 00425 and 00547).

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THANK YOU!
Prepared by: BSA 1-12 Group 3

Aguirran, Zsa Zsa

Borjal, Kaye
De Villa, Chantalle
Lucas, Mhel Rose
Rodriguez, Allia
Ulit, Samuel