THE ENVIRONMETAL BARRIERS REGARDING WASTE MANAGEMENT IN THE

VICINITY OF ADAMSON UNIVERSITY

A Research Proposal Presented To The Faculty Of

Education Department
Adamson University

In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the

Science, Technology and Society Course

By:
ABAD, Romeo Jr.
BALINGIT, Basty
LAO, Ederlin
PABLO, Mark Joshua
REYES, Unfernie Kent
SABLAN, Kamille Krishia
SAYSON, Kimberly
VILLASIS, Patricia

December 2018
 I. INTRODUCTION
*Abby, Basty, Kams.

At the present time, the world is undergoing environmental dilemmas such as outraging

pollution, flashfloods or global warming in general that harms nature. The Waste Management is

one of the main problems in the Philippines, as you can see it is not systematic specifically not

well organize and some of our Filipino citizens doesn’t have discipline regarding to the waste

management, and if you can notice if there is a calamity, our country is suffering to recover

immediately it takes 2 or more years to recover and be back to normal, but with the help of waste

management regarding to biodegradable will help our country to have an economic success and to

lessen the non-biodegradable. Over the centuries waste management was one of the sanitary

activity and it was sufficient that garbage was transported and disorganize out of the cities and

dumped somewhere. In every places. However, due to the significant economic growth after World

War II, the amount of generated waste was highly increasing tremendously and environmental and

health problems such as pollution of air, soil and ground water occurred and the people is affected

by the waste management due to not focusing in to it (Sage 2015). The world now is having a

climate change due to human activity, deforestation, industrialization etc. that affects our mother

nature that has a big impact to pollute the air, water and soil.

*Kim, Kent, Lao

In order for the environment to cope with ecological resilience and establish sustainable

communities, one way is to engage in complex idea of waste management. A scheme that generally

use to lessen the indicators of environmental dilemmas. However, these waste management has

main barriers that could affect in initiating effective proper waste disposal, namely; The lack of

awareness of mass students in the said university and comprehensive and appropriate tools and
equipment. Waste is the output of human activities, thereby individuals had the necessities and

obligation to comply with such as having a proper understanding towards waste management

issues. Awareness in waste management is the key to cooperative community for conducting an

essential way to help the environment which is the critical component in any waste management

program, public awareness and participation, in addition to appropriate legislation, strong technical

support, and adequate funding. (Hasan, 2011)

*Pat, Kio, Pab

The effective result of the study aims to disseminate information to inform individuals

especially young ones to follow certain policy or practices that is valuable and beneficial to

establish because of its certain positive outcome.....

 II. THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND

Waste management is the universal approach that helps to decrease the alarming rate of

unpleasant happenings in environment and making waste obsolete. It has been a major

environmental issue globally since the industrial revolution. Apart from waste created at home

school and other public places, there are also waste from huge establishments such as hospitals,

particular industries and other sources. Humans rely on materials and that almost end up as waste.

There are two types of waste classified as: (a) Trash: solid wastes from places like attic, backyard

or study. These materials include paper and card boxes etc. (b) Garbage: This is waste from kitchen

and bathroom. They also include waste from cooking food and from food storage facilities.