Almost all Local Government Units [LGUs} have difficulties, after 13 years, in implementing the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act or RA 9003; hence their non-compliance. LGUs, the barangays in particular, can be charged with the Ombudsman for the non-compliance of the garbage law! The mayors prefer to have their garbage to be disposed by private haulers and allocate about 50% of their annual budget for garbage hauling. The Ecological Solid Waste Management Act or Republic Act 9003 orders all LGUs to decentralize their garbage collections to their barangays, the smallest units of government. It is the barangays that must teach their residents to do the three Rs [Recycle, Reuse] right in their respective homes or buildings. They must know how to segregate: Collect their trash at source, and separate reusable trashes from residual trashes. The later are the kind of trashes that no one will buy or have any use for. Examples are used baby diapers, damaged textiles, broken ceramics, contaminated paper and very thin plastics. Residual waste is the only kind of garbage that can be brought by city-hired dump trucks to landfills. The law requires that each barangay to have a Materials Recovery Facility [MRF] of its own which is key to decentralizing waste management. An MRF is a structure or shed where all the garbage generated by the barangay is sorted into recyclables, organic waste, and non-recyclables or residual waste. Depending on its wastes, the MRF must be equipped with a compactor, a shredder and a washing area where wastes are first cleansed from organic materials so they wont attract pests like rats, flies and cockroaches which are disease-carriers. The city or municipality should provide each of the barangay within the city or municipality with funds for the construction of an MRF. But make it sure that the barangay receiving the assistance is really implementing the solid waste management program. It should also distribute pushcarts for the barangay garbage collector
Posted on: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 05:33:05 +0000
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