Chapter 5 Review of the Waste Management System in the Philippines: Initiatives to Promote Waste Segregation and Recycling through Good Governance Vella ATIENZA1 Abstract Like other developing countries‚ waste management has become a major problem in the Philippines for the past decades. This paper provides an overview of the waste management and recycling in the Philippines and the responses of the government to address various problems brought about by improper waste management. It reviews
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HAZARDOUS WASTE Signs/Symbols Toxic Waste Biohazard Warning Outline Definition Sources Disposal/Control Outline Definition Sources Disposal/Control What Is Hazardous Waste? Hazardous substance Quantity Concentration Characteristics (physical‚ chemical‚ infectious) increase in mortality Increase in irreversible or incapacitating reversible illness Pose substantial present or potential hazard to human health and the environment What Is Hazardous
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Waste management Waste management is the collection‚ transport‚ processing or disposal‚ managing and monitoring of waste materials. The term usually relates to materials produced by human activity‚ and the process is generally undertaken to reduce their effect on health‚ the environmentor aesthetics. Waste management is a distinct practice from resource recovery which focuses on delaying the rate of consumption ofnatural resources. All wastes materials‚ whether they are solid‚ liquid‚ gaseous or radioactive fall
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Causes and Effects of Improper Sex Education in Schools Teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted infection and disease rates in the United States have significantly increased during the 21st century. Many claim that this increase is a direct effect of the sexually explicit nature of this generation; others assume that teenagers simply choose to rebel against lessons from elders and school officials. What modern Americans fail to realize is that these rapidly increasing rates are likely caused
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WASTE MANAGEMENT WASTE WASTE • any material “thrown away” • regarded as useless and unwanted (at a certain time and place) KINDS OF WASTE Solid wastes domestic‚ commercial and industrial wastes especially common as co-disposal of wastes Examples: plastics‚ styrofoam containers‚ bottles‚ cans‚ papers‚ scrap iron‚ and other trash Liquid Wastes : wastes in liquid form Examples: domestic washings‚ chemicals‚ oils‚ wastewater from ponds‚ manufacturing industries and other sources CLASSIFICATION
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What is e-waste? E-waste is those waste materials consisting of any broken or unwanted / obsolete electrical or electronic appliances & gadgets. If it is not carried out properly it can dangerous to the human health or to the environment. India currently produces 500‚000 tones of e-waste annually and the figure is expected to touch one million tones in 2012. However‚ India lacks a proper e-waste disposal system and it is left up to the unorganized sector to dispose of the waste. The unorganized
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Case Study; Improper Planning and Readiness INTRODUCTION This case study takes place in an office setting in ABC Inc. We’re a young man name Carol Robins has been given a task by his boss Monica Carrolls to hire 15 new recruits. He was given a list of different task and planning to get done before June15. Carol was a young and not experience enough on how to accomplish the task he needed to get done. PROBLEM AND KEY ISSUES One of the first problems is when Monica Carrolls gave
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WASTE MANAGEMENT ASSESSMENT 1 Management of municipal solid waste (MSW) or otherwise known as trash or garbage is an ongoing environmental and economic issue not only in the Unites States but also around the world especially in a developing country like the Philippines. The need for a community assessment that aims at assessing the current problems related to the way trash is managed in Pateros‚ the smallest
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Solid Waste Management of Boarding Houses A Research Proposal Presented to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Surigao del Sur State University Main Campus Tandag City In Partial Fulfillment Of the requirements for The Subject Research Rovie Galagar Saz Chapter 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS SETTING Introduction Solid Waste Management‚ the collecting‚ treating‚ and disposing of solid material that is discarded because it has served its purpose or is no longer useful. Improper disposal
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Objectives Each of us will throw a lot of waste every day; you know where all the wastewent? Most of the waste will get sanitary landfill‚ incineration‚ composting and other sound processing in some areas with better waste management‚ while most places just easy piled or landfill‚ this cause odour spread‚ soil and underground water get polluted.Peopleare not only just consuming a lot of resources‚ mass production‚ mass consumption of land‚ but also produced a lot of waste; this consequences will be unimaginable
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