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ES24

Environment

Solid Waste
Management
WHAT IS SOLID WASTE
MANAGEMENT?

Solid Waste Management is all


about managing our solid
waste efficiently.
BIODEGRADABLE (NABUBULOK)
DIFFERENT
TYPES OF WASTE

NON-BIODEGRADABLE (DI
NABUBULOK)
DIFFERENT TYPES
OF WASTE

1 2 INDUSTRIAL 3 BIOMEDICAL
HOUSEHOLD WASTE WASTE
WASTE
Household waste or Industrial waste, when Biomedical waste, classified
municipal waste refers to the classified as hazardous waste, as infectious waste, refers to
waste generated by refers to waste generated from waste generated from
households and similar industrial processes that poses healthcare facilities that
sources within a community, a potential risk to human contains potentially infectious
typically consisting of health or the environment due materials, such as blood,
everyday items such as to its toxic, flammable, sharps, or pathological waste,
packaging, food scraps, and corrosive, or reactive posing a risk of transmitting
other discarded materials. properties. diseases.
SOLID WASTE
TREATMENT
The processing method available
for management solid waste
including; SEGREGATION,
REDUCTION, REUSE and
RECYCLING, CHEMICAL,
BIOLOGICAL and THERMAL
CONVERSION.
Biodegradable Non- Biodegradable

SEGREGATION
Segregation or waste
sorting is the process
by which waste is
separated into different
elements
REDUSE, REUSE,
Advantages of reuse
Reduced disposal needs
RECYCLE
and cost
Energy and raw material Reduction is the most
savings important strategies of
the three Rs.

Reuse is the second most


Advantages of recycle important strategy of the
three Rs.

Save energy
Conserves resources Recycle is the third R in
the heirarchy,
CHEMICAL
PROCESSING
Conversion of organic
fraction of waste into
useful compounds
BIOLOGICAL
PROCESSING
Involves processes like
composting, anaerobic
conversion, anaerobic
fermentation and
digestion.
METHODS OF
DISPOSAL

1 COMPOSTING 2 LANDFILL 3 INCIRENATION

method of waste disposal an option for items that the treatment of waste or
that decomposes organic you can't get rid of waste disposal by the
waste by letting the waste through other methods. means of burning where the
stay in a pit for an extended garbage turns into the
period of time. incombustible matter like
gases and ashes.
METHODS OF
DISPOSAL

1 VERMICOMPOSTING 2 SEEWAGE 3 BIOGAS


TREATMENT GENERATION

the process of using worms removes pollutants from Making biogas from organic
for the degradation of wastewater and produces waste recycling is a good
organic matter into clean water that can be way to manage potentially
nutrient-rich manure. discharged into water harmful organic wastes.
bodies.
THE SUSTAINABLE DINER
PROJECT
implemented by the World Wide Fund for
Nature (WWF) Philippines, supports the
Philippine government and the
foodservice sector in developing and
establishing a low carbon industry and in
minimizing its ecological footprint through
sustainable strategies, approaches, and
policy recommendations.

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