Important things about the

Ecological Solid Waste

Management Act
Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR). - The Department, in
coordination with the Committees on Environment and Ecology
of the Senate and House of Representatives, respectively, the
representatives of the Leagues of Provinces, Cities, Municipalities
and Barangay Councils, the MMDA and other concerned
agencies, shall promulgate the implementing rules and
regulations of this Act, within one (1) year after its enactment:
Provided, That rules and regulations issued by other government
agencies and instrumentalities for the prevention and/or
abatement of the solid waste management problem not
inconsistent with this Act shall supplement the rules and
regulations issued by the Department, pursuant to the provisions
of this Act.

Environmental Education in the Formal and Non-formal Sectors.

- The national government, through the DECS and in coordination with
concerned government agencies, NGOs and private institutions, shall
strengthen the integration of environmental concerns in school
curricula at all levels, with particular emphasis on the theory and
practice of waste management principles like waste minimization,
specifically resource conservation and recovery, segregation at source,
reduction, recycling, re-use and composting, in order to promote
environmental awareness and action among the citizenry.

Environmental Education (EE) is a methodology in which people

pick up familiarity with their surroundings and secure learning,
abilities, values, experiences, and passion, all of which will
empower them to act separately and aggregately to take care
of present and future environmental issues. It is the study of
relationship and interactions between natural and human
systems. In short, environmental education is provided so that
people can have a better understanding of the world around
them and know how to take care of it properly so that the world
can be a better place.
Environmental education furnishes individuals with the
mindfulness required to build up organizations,
comprehend NGO exercises, create participatory
methodologies to urban planning, and guarantee future
markets for eco-business. All of these are not only good
for the environment, but they will also end up being very
good for the economy as well, so everyone gets to benefit
from the efforts of those who are going through
environmental education. EE is taught in schools,
communities and in centers like parks, zoos and
museums.

Features of Environmental
Education (EE)
Environmental Education:

1. Is a learning process that expands individuals information and

mindfulness about natures domain and related difficulties,
creates the vital abilities and mastery to address the difficulties,
instilled confidence and stewardship and cultivates demeanor,
inspirations, and responsibilities to settle on educated choices
and make dependable moves in the field that they are working
with.

2. Is a inter-disciplinary field that integrates fields such as

biology, ecology, earth science, geography, atmospheric science
and mathematics because understanding how environment works
and keeping it healthy require knowledge and skills from many
disciplines.
3. Includes all efforts to make general public aware of the
knowledge of the environment and environmental challenges
through print materials, media, brochures, bulletins, videos, or
other media techniques.

4. Leads to responsible individual and group actions.

5. Provides information about specific environmental concerns or

problems to the general public instead of specific group, religion
or community.

6. Works to help you think critically, so that you arent sitting

there trying to fit everything into a neat little box.

7. Involves students in different data-gathering techniques that

help them to discuss, analyze, predict and interpret data about
environmental issues.

8. Is study centered, promotes higher level thinking skills and

relevant to students everyday lives.

9. Allows people to discuss about complex environment

problems that has no simple answers.

10. Is a process in which individuals gain

information environmental awareness and acquire knowledge,
skills, values, experiences, and determination which can help
them to solve different environmental problems.
By being passionate about keeping the world around them safe,
people will be more likely to apply their particular education to
what they are doing, and they will work to take care of the world
around them while they are building their company or
organization up.

Environmental instruction upgrades basic analyzation, critical

thinking, and compelling choice making abilities, and instructs
people to weigh different sides of an environmental issue on
order to settle on educated and capable choices. Environmental
education does not advocate a specific perspective or game plan;
instead, it allows you to make your own choices.

Prohibited Acts. The following acts are prohibited:

(1) Littering, throwing, dumping of waste matters in public
places, such as roads, sidewalks, canals, esteros or parks, and
establishment, or causing or permitting the same;
(2) Undertaking activities or operating, collecting or transporting
equipment in violation of sanitation operation and other
requirements or permits set forth in or established pursuant to
this Act;
(3) The open burning of solid waste;
(4) Causing or permitting the collection of non-segregated or
unsorted waste;
(5) Squatting in open dumps and landfills;
(6) Open dumping, burying of biodegradable or non-
biodegradable materials in flood-prone areas;
(7) Unauthorized removal of recyclable material intended for
collection by
authorized persons;
(8) The mixing of source-separated recyclable material with other
solid waste in any vehicle, box, container or receptacle used in
solid waste collection or disposal;
(9) Establishment or operation of open dumps as enjoined in this
Act, or closure of said dumps in violation of Sec. 37;
(10) The manufacture, distribution or use of non-environmentally
acceptable
packaging materials;
(11) Importation of consumer products packaged in non-
environmentally
acceptable materials;
(12) Importation of toxic wastes misrepresented as recyclable
or with recyclable content;
(13) Transport and dumping in bulk of collected domestic,
industrial, commercial and institutional wastes in areas other
than centers of facilities prescribed under this Act;
(14) Site preparation, construction, expansion or operation of
waste management facilities without an Environmental
Compliance Certificate required pursuant to Presidential Decree
No. 1586 and this Act and not conforming with the land use plan
of the LGU;
(15) The construction of any establishment within two hundred
(200) meters from open dumps or controlled dumps or sanitary
landfills; and
(16) The construction or operation of landfills or any waste
disposal facility on any aquifer, groundwater reservoir or
watershed area and or any portions.