The Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000 mandates the Philippine government to adopt a comprehensive and ecological solid waste management program. It aims to protect public health and the environment through waste reduction and resource recovery. The Act assigns responsibilities to various government agencies to support its implementation, including preparing reports, providing assistance to local governments, and conducting education campaigns. It also aims to promote greater private sector and public participation in integrated solid waste management.
The Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000 mandates the Philippine government to adopt a comprehensive and ecological solid waste management program. It aims to protect public health and the environment through waste reduction and resource recovery. The Act assigns responsibilities to various government agencies to support its implementation, including preparing reports, providing assistance to local governments, and conducting education campaigns. It also aims to promote greater private sector and public participation in integrated solid waste management.
The Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000 mandates the Philippine government to adopt a comprehensive and ecological solid waste management program. It aims to protect public health and the environment through waste reduction and resource recovery. The Act assigns responsibilities to various government agencies to support its implementation, including preparing reports, providing assistance to local governments, and conducting education campaigns. It also aims to promote greater private sector and public participation in integrated solid waste management.
The Act mandates the State to adopt a systemac, comprehensive and ecological solid waste management program which shall:
Ensure the protecon of public health and environment; Ulize environmentally-sound methods that maximize the ulizaon of valuable resource reducon and encourage resources conservaon and recovery; Set guidelines and targets for solid waste avoidance and volume reducon through source reducon and waste minimizaon measures, including composng, recycling, re - use, recovery, green charcoal processes, and others, before collecon, treatment and disposal in appropriate and environmentally-sound solid waste management facilies in accordance with ecologically sustainable development principles; Ensure the proper segregaon, collecon, transport, storage, treatment and disposal of solid waste through the formulaon and adopon of the best environmental pracces in ecological waste management excluding incineraon; Promote naonal research and development programs for improved solid waste management and resource conservaon techniques, more eecve instuonal arrangement and indigenous and improved methods of waste reducon, collecon separaon and recovery; Encourage greater private sector parcipaon in solid waste management; Retain primary enforcement and responsibility of solid waste management with local government units while establishing a cooperave eort among the naonal government, other local government units, non-government organizaons, and private sector; Encourage cooperaon and self-regulaon among waste generators through the applicaon of market-based instruments; Instuonalize public parcipaon in the development and implementaon of naonal and local integrated, comprehensive and ecological waste management programs; and Strengthen the integraon of ecological solid waste management and resource conservaon and recovery topics into the academic curricula of formal and non-formal educaon in order to promote environmental awareness and acon among the cizenry.
It mandates the various government agencies to do the following in support of the Act:
Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) act as overall of the Commission to be created; prepare a Naonal Solid Waste Management Status Report; Doniel C. Raspado BSEE III provide technical and capacity-building assistance to local government units; issue rules and regulaons in the implementaon of the Act.
Department of Health (DOH) in coordinaon with the DENR and other concerned agencies prepare the Naonal Solid Waste Management Status Report which shall be the basis for the Naonal Solid Waste Management Framework; and together with the DENR and DILG shall publish the inventory of all solid waste disposal facilies.
Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) shall formulate and implement a coding system for packaging materials and products to facilitate waste recycling and reuse and with DENR establish and manage a solid waste management informaon database and publish a study of exisng markets for processing and purchasing recyclable materials and the potenal steps necessary to expand these markets .
Department of Interior and Local Governments ( DILG) - together with the DENR and DOH shall publish the inventory of all solid waste disposal facilies.
Department of Educaon (DepEd), Commission on Higher Educaon (CHED), Technical Educaon and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) and Philippine Informaon Agency (PIA) with the DENR shall conduct connuing educaon and informaon campaign on solid waste management.
DepEd and CHED the naonal government through the DepEd and in coordinaon with concerned agencies , non-government organizaons and private instuons, shall strengthen the integraon of environmental concerns in school curricula at all levels
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