UNIVERSITY OF NORTHEASTERN PHILIPPINES

Iriga City
School of Graduate Studies and Research

QUESTIONNAIRE

Dear Respondents,

This survey aims to determine the Awareness and Practices on

Ecological Solid Waste Management (ESWM) of School Heads and
Barangay Officials in Baao District, Province of Camarines Sur.
Your cooperation and honest answers are highly solicited. Please
rest assured that your answers will be treated with
confidentiality. Thank you!

The Researcher

Name (Optional): ____________________________________________

Name of School/Barangay: ____________________________________
Respondents Category:
_____ School Head _____ Barangay
Captain
_____ Barangay Councilor _____ Barangay Councilor
(Committee on (Committee on Environment
Education) And Sanitation)

Part I. Awareness on Ecological Solid Waste Management (ESWM)

Direction: Please check (/) the appropriate column that
corresponds to your answers according to your level of awareness
on Ecological Solid Waste Management(ESWM).

LEGEND: 5 - Very Much Aware 2 - Fairly Aware

4 - Much Aware 1 - Not at all
3 - Aware

ECOLOGICAL SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT 5 4 3 2 1

1. Ensure the protection of the public

health and environment.
2. Utilize environmentally-sound methods
that maximize the utilization of valuable
resources and encourage resource
conversation and recovery.
3. Set guidelines and targets for solid
 waste avoidance and volume reduction
through source reduction and waste
minimization measures, including
composting, recycling, re-use, recovery,
green charcoal process, and others,
before collection, treatment and disposal
in appropriate and environmentally sound
solid waste management facilities in
accordance with ecologically sustainable
development principles.
4. Ensure the proper segregation,
collection, transport, storage, treatment
and disposal of solid waste through the
formulation and adoption of the best
environment practice in ecological waste
management excluding incineration.
5. Promote national research and development
programs for improved solid waste
management and resource conservation
techniques, more effective institutional
arrangement and indigenous and improved
methods of waste reduction, collection,
separation and recovery.
6. Encourage greater private sector
participation in solid waste management.
7. Retain primary enforcement and
responsibility of solid waste management
with local government units while
establishing a cooperative effort among
the national government, other local
government units, non-government
organizations, and the private sector.
8. Encourage cooperation and self-regulation
among waste generators through the
application of market-based instruments.
9. Institutionalize public participation in
the development and implementation of
national and local integrated,
comprehensive, and ecological waste
management programs.
10. Strengthen the integration of
ecological solid waste management and
resource conservation and recovery topics
into the academic curricula of formal and
non-formal education in order to promote
environmental awareness and action among
citizenry.
11. Others, please specify
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Source: General Provision on Ecological Solid Waste
Management Act of 2000/Republic Act 9003.
Part II. Practices on Waste Management in School/Barangay
Direction: Please check (/) the appropriate column corresponding
to the level on how you practice the following statement on
Ecological Solid Waste Management.

LEGEND:
5 - Very Much Aware 2 - Fairly Aware
4 - Much Aware 1 - Not at all
3 - Aware

PRACTICES ON WASTE MANAGEMENT 5 4 3 2 1

1. Waste Segregation
1.1. Sorting the biodegradable and non-
biodegradable.
1.2. Segregate of special waste and toxic
waste like diaper battery, fluorescent
lamp, and etc.
1.3. Segregation of organic waste like
leftover food, peel and scrapings from
fruit and vegetables.
1.4. Segregation of residual waste like
glass (clear, tinted-no light bulbs or
window panes.
1.5. Mix all garbage in one garbage
container.
1.6. Segregate recyclable items for
collection.
1.7. Others, please specify
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2. Waste Collection
2.1. Meet up with a collection vehicle.
2.2. Waste materials are collected
according to schedule.
2.3. Waste materials are collected in every
house (door to door)
2.4. Hauling and transfer of solid waste
from collection points to final disposal
sites.
2.5. Composting.
2.6. Long-term storage or disposal facility
or sanitary landfill.
2.7. others, please specify
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3. Waste Disposal
3.1. Burying the waste in the land
 3.2. Incineration or Combustion
3.3. Resource Recovery
3.4. Recycling
3.5. Plasma Gasification
3.6. Composting
3.7. Disposed properly in the designated
trash bins.
3.8. Bottles, plastics, cans, and other
scraps are sold to junkshop.
3.9. others, please specify
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4. Implementing 5R’s (Refuse, Reduce, Reuse,
Repurpose and Recycle)
4.1. Borrow, share, and /or rent things
that are needed occasionally.
4.2. Use water bottle/container than buying
water in one-used plastic bottles.
4.3. Use old materials than buying a new
one.
4.4. Keep those unfilled papers and used it
as scratch.
4.5. Reuse grocery bags.
4.6. Convert or redesign waste materials
into a new product.
4.7. Make decors out of plastic wrappers
and other colorful waste materials.
4.8. Ignore the importance of recycling
4.9. Initiate generating-income out of
waste materials.
4.10. others, please specify
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Part III. Put a check (/) on the box that corresponds to your
answer according to the following scale.

LEGEND:
5 - Very Much Aware 2 - Fairly Aware
4 - Much Aware 1 - Not at all
3 - Aware

Challenges encountered in Solid Waste Management 5 4 3 2 1

1. Lack of authority to make financial and
administrative decision.
2. Inadequate service coverage.
3. Lack service quality.
4. Lack of financial resources.
5. Lack of trained personnel.
6. Lack of vehicles.
7. Lack of equipment.
8. Old vehicle/equipment frequent breakdown.
9. Lack of enforcement measure and capability.
10. Lack of planning (short, medium and long
term plan)
11. Difficult to locate and acquire landfill
site.
12. Poor cooperation by Government agencies.
13. Poor public cooperation.
14. Uncontrolled use of packaging materials.
15. Poor response to waste
minimization(reuse/recycling).
16. Lack of control on hazardous waste.
17. Lack of awareness on Ecological Solid
Waste Management Act of 2000/Republic Act
9003.
18. Others. Please specify
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Thank you very much and God bless!

CHRISTINE MAE A. BENOSA

Researcher