Name: John Feil A.

Jimenez Date: October 18, 2020

Time: 5:30- 7:00 PM Activity: Assignment 11

Answer the following question, in 200 words in paragraph form.

1. Why is there a need to design a sanitary landfill?

Sanitary landfills are sites where waste is isolated from the
environment until it is safe.
It is considered when it has completely degraded biologically,
chemically and physically. In high-income countries, the level of
isolation achieved may be high. However, such an expensive high level
of isolation may not be technically necessary to protect public health.
Four basic conditions should be met before a site can be regarded as a
sanitary landfill (see following.) The ways of doing this should be
adapted to local conditions. The immediate goal is to meet, to the best
extent possible, the four stated basic sanitary landfill conditions, with a
longer term goal to meet them eventually in full. Sanitary landfill is one
of the main ways to deal with high inorganic matters and low calorific
value waste, in which leachate can be produced from the waste
degradation and rain penetration and generally contains soluble
components present in the waste itself.

2. Does the Philippines still allow sanitary landfill? Yes or No? and why?

Yes, our country still has sanitary landfill. This is because in the
note of DENR Undersecretary for Solid Waste Management and Local
Government Units Concerns Benny D. Antiporda, sanitary landfill is the
primary long-term method of solid waste disposal allowed under
Republic Act 9003 or the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of
2000. Antiporda said that under the law, sanitary landfill is required in
any LGU as a means of safe disposal of untreated solid waste or
resource recovery residuals. However, the DENR official said the number
of sanitary landfills in the country remains small even after 20 years since
RA 9003 took effect. What we need in this country is about 1,700
sanitary landfills for all the municipalities and cities. But, sad to say, we
only have 108 as of the moment and this number could even decrease
in the future,” Antiporda lamented. Secretary Cimatu had earlier
ordered Antiporda, who also chairs the NSWMC, to “review and revise”
DENR Administrative Order 2001-34 or the Implementing Rules and
Regulations of RA 9003 to make the establishment and operation of a
sanitary landfill easier and less expensive. The DENR chief noted that a
lot of LGUs find it difficult to comply with the law as building and
maintaining a sanitary landfill can be costly and somewhat
complicated. A sanitary landfill is a solid waste management facility
that utilizes an engineered method of waste disposal, primarily for
municipal solid waste. An “engineered” method of landfilling means
that garbage is handled at a disposal facility that is designed,
constructed and operated in a manner protective of public health and
the environment.