Reaction paper on Breakthroughs In Solid Waste Management: Lessons From Selected Municipality and Barangay in the Philippines
Teofilo A. Tubo September 13, 2014
Sat. 8:00am-11:00am Dr. Eduardo M. Bisquera Jr., Ph.D.
REACTION PAPER in Breakthroughs In Solid Waste Management:
Lessons From Selected Municipality and
Barangay in the Philippines
Solid waste management whose importance is directly related to public health, resource management and utilization, and maintaining a clean environment, is necessary in ensuring human development. Solid waste management benefits the population in many ways. The Philippine has no effective waste management system since then, set off a kind of global chain reaction on the need for ways to understand and benchmark waste management systems in low and middle income countries. Waste segregation in the Philippines household level is not widely practiced and waste recycling is minimal.
The Municipality of Los Baños, Laguna, and Barangay Bagumbuhay of Quezon City were able to address the problem in solid waste management strategy with relatively low cost but with a high level of efficiency in a low technology solution.
I think the education driven by barangay officials have mobilizing their constituents to make recovery facilities or areas for recycling household waste and a budget to teach residents about simple segregation management are the effective ways to start on barangay level.
It is possible to achieve significant positive results with limited budgets owing to very strong and dedicated barangay management, enthusiastic staff, and with time relatively cooperative inhabitants, build the right attitudes and discipline among members of the community towards environmental awareness through seminars, workshops, and echo training seminars. The raised consciousness is often the start of the empowerment process and in order to achieve this people need to come together to discuss and share experiences. When people get aware of their situation and begin to act coordinated to change it. The project has raised the
Sat. 8:00am-11:00am Dr. Eduardo M. Bisquera Jr., Ph.D.
REACTION PAPER in Breakthroughs In Solid Waste Management:
Lessons From Selected Municipality and
Barangay in the Philippines
Solid waste management whose importance is directly related to public health, resource management and utilization, and maintaining a clean environment, is necessary in ensuring human development. Solid waste management benefits the population in many ways. The Philippine has no effective waste management system since then, set off a kind of global chain reaction on the need for ways to understand and benchmark waste management systems in low and middle income countries. Waste segregation in the Philippines household level is not widely practiced and waste recycling is minimal.
The Municipality of Los Baños, Laguna, and Barangay Bagumbuhay of Quezon City were able to address the problem in solid waste management strategy with relatively low cost but with a high level of efficiency in a low technology solution.
I think the education driven by barangay officials have mobilizing their constituents to make recovery facilities or areas for recycling household waste and a budget to teach residents about simple segregation management are the effective ways to start on barangay level.
It is possible to achieve significant positive results with limited budgets owing to very strong and dedicated barangay management, enthusiastic staff, and with time relatively cooperative inhabitants, build the right attitudes and discipline among members of the community towards environmental awareness through seminars, workshops, and echo training seminars. The raised consciousness is often the start of the empowerment process and in order to achieve this people need to come together to discuss and share experiences. When people get aware of their situation and begin to act coordinated to change it. The project has raised the