Solid Waste management. Environmental Issue presenttaion by SPED Club, Saint Louis University.

1. SOLID WASTE
MANAGEMENT
George Beldad, Jr.
Althea Christine Schmidt
SPED CLUB ADVOCATES

2. BAGUIO CITY
City Ordinance No. 26
Building of 3 materials recovery
facilities (MRFs)
No strict implementation
10 year solid waste management plan

3. Clean and Green and Eco-Walk
Programs
Solid Waste Management
LGU’s Involvement

4. LGU’s Involvement
Program
Component
Activities Major
Accomplishments
Solid Waste
Management
Daily garbage
collection
117 out of 129
barangays are served
with the city’s
collection system (90
percent)
Organization of Quick
Response Team
tasked to be on call
for emergency
garbage collection
especially during peak
seasons of summer
and Christmas

5. LGU’s Involvement
Program Component Activities Major
Accomplishments
Solid Waste
Management
Advocacy campaign
through training of
barangay residents on
the 3Rs Principle of
Solid Waste
Management (Re-use,
Reduce and Recycle)
20 barangays have
already attended as of
1996
Local Clean and Green
Contest Annual
purchase of one
garbage truck
Contests held every
year in schools, public
buildings, barangays,
local departments of
the City Government
including jeepney
terminals

6. ASSISTING THE CITY GOVERNMENT OF
BAGUIO IN THE PROJECT
'SALAKNIB TI WAIG‘
AN EXTENSION PROGRAM OF SAINT LOUIS
UNIVERSITY
SLU – NSTP
Ecolodians of SLU and LEMAC
SLU

7. Proper solid waste management
techniques should be implemented to
avoid the transmission of infectious
diseases and prevent the contamination
of various environmental resources.
Importance

8. Additionally, many types of garbage may be
damaging to the soil, ground water and
surrounding habitat.
To address this problem, modern waste
management professionals place garbage in
lined holes and use bacteria to help facilitate
rapid decomposition of the garbage.
Environmental Impact

9. • Waste Reduction: Stop Throwing Things
Out
• Waste Reduction: Use Less Packaging
• Recycling: Turning Waste Material into
Raw Material
Possible Solutions