List of Laws On Agricultural Waste Management in The Philippines A Report Project On ABE Waste Management Engineering

List of Laws on Agricultural Waste Management in the Philippines
A Report Project on
ABE Waste Management Engineering
Worked Done by: Jefrey M. Butil 3-BSABE-A
On this day of February 24 in the year 2022

INTRODUCTION
Over the years of sowing and plantation on the different form of agriculture in the
Philippines, it can be seen that at some aspect there’s a major improvement happened whilst
some changes a bit unpredictable that leads to either gone or scarce with. As Philippines is
located on tropical region, it’s not surprisingly to see a vast form of vegetation and livestock
farming all around the different cities of the country.
Whilst on the other hand, as more production happened it’s usually to be see a variety of
waste all over the places of farming areas. Even in local areas, it’s nothing to be surprised to see a
piled of waste that being dump usually at costal areas. Or even in mountain pikes, a shredded of
vast majority of livestock waste are being dumped and that’s quite getting normal nowadays.
But what exactly does it means? It means that as over the years of nurturing plants and
livestock, more waste are created. Though some undergo a environmental free processes, it can’t
assure the fact that some may take advantaged of just throwing their waste into costal areas
around our locality. Moreover, some friendly processes that includes waste utilization are being
practiced which complies to a waste management practice of recycling.
Compost pit is one of the oldest practiced that can be seen even in local areas. By simply
piling up biodegradable waste such as plants waste and manures of livestock and making it in
either fertilizer or bio-gas. But it can’t assure that these practices can efficiently decreases or even
step down the number of waste being held by farming plants and livestock.
While those biodegradable waste are recycled, those on-biodegradable remains a bigger
problem in present time to future. When these waste requires hundreds and thousand of years to
decompose why others can’t be. It seems to be the most unpleasant thing to be heard when it
comes to farming. Waste acquired pollution leads to a bigger problem.
Specially when it reach into diversity of animals in our ecosystem, pollution destroys any sort of
animal habitat which either causes of scarcity on those food source such as fish and either
contaminates those. Toxic waste are even horrifying when it reaches into biodiversity as it either
eliminates the entire contaminated areas and killing any life there. With such major problem, the
constitution of the Philippines created these laws below to ensure a proactive and sustainable
production in the Philippines.
These laws main subject is to decrease possible negative and adverse effect of wrong
disposal of waste in different farming methods and areas. Ensuring the quality and productivity of
the aspect of environment role in the Philippines. Whilst some laws are created to properly
dispose waste, some laws are intended to bring punishment to those who objects and inability to
perform those practices and laws.
While other laws are habitat protection and for safety measures on both farms and people.
As health of the locality is the main sole priority. Here are some list of laws below that subjects to
waste management in the Philippines.

Table 1. List of Laws on Agricultural Waste Management in the Philippines
DISCUSSION
RA 9003 As a Feature on Waste Management Law of the Philippines
Implementation of these laws particularly RA 9003 should be the first and foremost thing that Local Government
Units should do. Taking the Pursuant to the Philippine Local Government Code as a basis, it was stated there that RA
9003 should be implemented and mandates that the LGUs is responsible in implementing the Act (Section 10).
As task to establish a provincial and city/municipal board to perform or disseminate the Waste Management Act as a
preparation of Ecological Waste Management for their locality (Sections 11, 12, and 16). RA 9003 does not allow any
sort of operation and establishment or even having dumpsites as acted upon the said Act. This states also that to
those open dumpsites should be converted into a sort of controlled one right after three(3) years since the activity,
and 5 years from the implementation of the Act those controlled dumpsites should be closed as well following the
mandated task by the said Act (Section 37). It was then tasked to DENR and NSW to provide a safe rehabilitation
practice among all closed dumpsites (DENR 2006a and NSWMC 2005b).
Hence, farming operations and facilities are allowed to construct a sanitary landfill (SLF) which will serves as
requirement for the final disposal site for residual wastes however it must also incorporates in accordance to the
criterion that the Act mandates of(Sections 40, 41, and 42). The DENR and the NSWMC will also facilitates the
category of disposal facilities hence will reflect back to the guidelines that the Act said for(DENR 2006b and NSWMC
2005c) with respect to the amount of residual waste that a community generates as well as any ecological waste too.
Hence LGUs are also mandated to convert at least 25% of total residue within the 5 year duration to purposedly turn
it to a more usable factor such as composting or the 3 R’s(reuse , reduce and recycle). Moreover, the amount of
waste reduction shall increased in 3 years prior form the start of the activity as per stated by section 20 (Section 20).
Even more, the source of such residue shall also segregate those waste as fulfilment of section 21 stated by the said
Act and in each locality should provide an MRF In accordance to section 32(Section 32). It was then the locality’s
responsibility to collect and segregate the biodegradable and recyclable wastes while those on cities shall be
responsible for the collection of non-biodegradable and any undesignated waste that include to those from Hospitals
that needs a special disposal (Section 10).

To make the Act as a more comprehensive one, citizens are encourage to file or report any sort of disobedience of
the Act and to those who are caught shall have a penal case and payments as a consequence to their disobedience.
In which citizens should be good at too to perform and enact the said Act. Otherwise, if citizens won’t give attention
to those acts then it would always just fail just as any act that are deactivated.
Hence, individual people should pay attention in segregating ecological waste to promote a better and constructive
way of economy via productive and healthy ways that diverts waste into more usable factor of the community.
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Worked Done by: Jefrey M. Butil 3-BSABE-A

On this day of February 24 in the year 2022

farming all around the different cities of the country.

practiced which complies to a waste management practice of recycling.

comes to farming. Waste acquired pollution leads to a bigger problem.

production in the Philippines.

perform those practices and laws.

waste management in the Philippines.

RA 9003 As a Feature on Waste Management Law of the Philippines

that needs a special disposal (Section 10).

Aguinaldo, Emelita. 2009. Philippines Solid Waste Management, Paper presented

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