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Each Filipino living in the metropolis generates an average of half a kilo of solid waste.
With a population of more than 10 million, total waste generated in Metro Manila alone
could run up to more than two million metric tons every year. Much had been written
about the worsening problem of solid waste in Metro Manila and other urban centers in
the country. Even more were fora, seminars and conferences conducted to discuss
ways of solving the problem, still NSWMC aims to attain a zero waste economy. They
are encouraging every Filipino to manage our solid waste. Because at the rate we are
producing waste, we will soon find ourselves buried in our own trash. Or, shall we say,
we will soon be having more of our human-made mountains of garbage amidst us. To
help solve the solid waste problem, NSWMC highly recommended countrymen, the
formula, to adopt the 3Rs of Ecological Waste Management: