Republic Act no.

9003 or known as the Ecological Solid Waste

Management of 2000 was enacted in response to the garbage problem
of the country. It mandates the public officials from the national level
down to the barangay level to observe and discharge their duty herein
mandated in this Act so that it may reach the ends of its purpose why
it was enacted, to solve the problems of garbage. This Act provides the
systematic procedure from generation down to the disposal. This Act
also provides the standards and controls of the generation, storage,
collection, transport, segregation, and disposal of wastes, such that it
may not pose health risks and hazard to the environment and the
population.
This act institutionalizes the NSWMC (National Solid Waste
Management Commission) as the government body who would ensure
that this Act is being implemented and standards were reached by the
Local Government Units (LGUs). This Commission is a macro level
watchdog of the solid waste management. This commission is duty
bound to strive the system laid by this Act to continue research and
improve to have its efficiency raised and sustainable.
This Act also institutionalize the SWMB (Solid Waste Management
Board) in every LGU. This Board shall manage and plan on how they
can properly, efficiently, and sustainably dispose the solid wastes
within their territories. This Board composes of different
representatives in every sector so that the actions of the Board are for
the development and the good of the environment and its people.
This Act has provided the dos and donts of the citizens so that it may
not endanger the environment, others, as well as their families and
themselves. This Act prohibits the open burning of the wastes. Even
this process answers the problem of storage and disposal of the
garbage, but it causes air pollution which will put those people, who
inhaled the smoke from the burning, at risks of respiratory diseases.
Such thing also causes problems and contributes the destruction of the
ozone layer. Such act is condemned and strongly prohibited by this Act
that doing such thing has equivalent penalties which are found on this
act as well (Penal Provisions).
This Act puts our taxes on an investment which is worth spending for, it
is always onto the care and common good of its constituents. It also
guides the LGUs on how they can properly dispose the garbage. Many
good things were made on this Act, standards that need to be reached
by the government itself so that it may ensure the safety and welfare
of the environment and its people.
-KENNETH IZZY O
ACENAS
March 10, 2017