Solid waste pollution occurs when solid waste contaminates the environment. There are different types of solid waste including municipal, industrial, and toxic waste. Municipal waste comes from households while industrial waste comes from factories. Toxic waste includes materials from hospitals and laboratories. Methods to manage solid waste include reducing, reusing, and recycling materials (the 3Rs), composting, landfilling, and incineration. The Philippines implements various technologies and programs to control solid waste pollution through government agencies, private sectors, and communities in accordance with the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000.

1. Solid Waste
Pollution

2. Objectives
• Defined solid waste pollution.
• Described how solid waste contributes to
pollution and identified the compositions
of solid waste.

3. Solid waste
- Is any unwanted material that is neither liquid or gas.
Pollution
- Is the action of polluting or process of
making land, water, air, etc. Dirty and not
safe or suitable to use (Merriam Webster
Dictionary).

4. Solid Waste Pollution
- is the action of polluting especially
through environmental contamination with
solid wastes which makes an environment
unsafe for us.

5. Different classifications of Solid
Waste
Municipal
waste
Industrial
waste
Toxic and
Hazardous
waste

6. Municipal Wastes
Wastes coming from household. These
wastes include food wrappers brought home,
plastic bags, tin cans, floor sweepings, used
bottles, torn clothing materials, and other
wastes at home. These wastes are
increasing depending on the major activities
of the family members that is accumulated
every day.

7. Industrial Wastes
Wastes coming from factories.
Industries are known to be one of the
biggest contributors of solid waste
(Rinkesh,2020). These wastes include
fermenting products, food processing
residues, plastics, fabrics, dust,
copper, iron, and other wastes used by
industries. All wastes coming from
different industries are called Industrial
Wastes.

8. Toxic and Hazardous Wastes
Wastes coming from hospitals
and laboratories. These include
wastes or materials with one or
more of 39 toxic compounds
and wastes that catches fire
easily. Moreover, these
materials may seep into the soil
and pollute the ground water.

9. SOLID WASTE
MANAGEMENT
METHODS
Solid Waste Management is a term that is
used to refer to the process of collecting and
treating solid wastes. It also offers solutions
for recycling items that do not belong to
garbage or trash.

10. Zero Waste Management System
1.
The most preferred method of waste disposal which aims to achieve
zero waste from its source. It includes the 3R that stands for Reduce,
Reuse, and Recycle.
1. Reduce intends to reduce the production of waste. One of its way to
– reduce waste is to reduce packaging materials.
2. Reuse of a material repeatedly. For instance, the reuse of plastic
bags from department stores and supermarkets, refilling of bottles and
borrowing and donating of items used frequently.
3. Recycle is the method of processing used materials into new
products, such as plastics, papers, and electronics.

11. Composting
2.
The biodegradation of organic matter
into humus like product, the
decomposition of organic materials
such as plant remains and other
living materials which is excellent for
enriching the soil. The by-product of
this method are commonly used as
fertilizers for farming or gardening.

13. Sanitary Landfill
3.
A method of waste disposal by burial and believed to be the oldest form
of waste treatment. However, there are basic conditions to be met
before a sanitary landfill is allowed to operate.
a. Location Restriction
- Landfills should be away from faults, wetlands and flood plains.
b. Permanent Control of the area by staffs
- The staffs that would operate must be at based on the landfill.
c. Presence of Leachate collection and Removal System

14. Sanitary Landfill
3.

15. Cross-section of an active landfill

16. Incinerators
4.
Are used in the
burning of garbage
and removal of the
residue. It is a unit
or a machine that
burns trash and
wastes into ash.

17. Open Dumpsite
5.
The least preferred method
of waste disposal where
garbage is dumped in open
sites where organic matter is
allowed to rot. An example of
this in the country are the
Smokey Mountain in Manila
and Payatas in Quezon City.

18. Controlling Pollution
The least preferred method of
waste disposal where garbage is
dumped in open sites where
organic matter is allowed to rot. An
example of this in the country are
the Smokey Mountain in Manila
and Payatas in Quezon City.

19. Philippine Efforts in Controlling Solid Waste
The solid waste management was joined by the government agencies,
private sectors, LGU's, civic societies and communities. Government
agencies such as Department of Trade and Industry, Department of
Science and Technology, Department of Agriculture and the
Department of Health worked together to create programs as
mandated under The Republic Act (RA) 9003, otherwise known as
the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000, such as
recycling programs, eco-labelling, technology development, and
studies of health effects of solid wastes to people.

20. Accelerated Composting Technology
(Bioreactor)
1.
This involves the aerobic
degradation of solid
wastes inside fabricated
reactor to a level
suitable for organic
fertilizers.

21. Anaerobic Composting
(Biogas Reactor)
2.
This is the anaerobic conversion
of organic wastes from
agriculture, livestock, and
domestic into energy and
biofertilizers that do not utilize
oxygen. In this system, the
majority of the chemical energy
contained within the starting
material is released as methane.

22. Vermicomposting
3.
A low cost and scientifically
based technology that
produces compost with the
use of worms. Compost
worms known as African
night crawlers that eat solid
waste and thus produce
vermicast, a pure worm
excreta and worm biomass.

23. MATERIAL RECOVERY FACILITY
The implementation of the RA 9003 or the
Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of
the Philippines. This law provides a solid
and 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 includes the need to create
the necessary institutional mechanisms and
incentives and also imposes penalties for
violations in its provisions. And one of this
is the establishment of the Material
Recovery Facility in every barangay or
cluster of barangays.

24. MATERIAL RECOVERY
FACILITY
MRF or Material Recovery Facility is a specialized plant that receives,
segregates and prepares recycled materials. The MRF should have at
least three compartments separating different types of recyclable solid
wastes. One compartment may be used for all types of paper; another is
for hard plastic and the other for aluminum cans and glass bottles.
This facility receives materials that move along a conveyer belt, wherein
workers pull out large items such as plastic bags and toss them into bins.
Unusable trash is thrown away. The recyclables move into a screening
machine that separates and mixes papers. Oftentimes, workers pull out
any trash and discard them.

25. A picture is worth a
thousand words

26. Questions
1. What waste management services does your locality
provide?
2. How Do you Practice Waste Management At Home?
3. What is the waste management law in the Philippines?
4. Does waste management is must in your business or
company? Why and why not?

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