The document provides guidance on how to establish a Materials Recovery Facility (MRF). It outlines several key steps: conducting education and advocacy programs to inform the public about waste segregation and the MRF's benefits; establishing proper waste infrastructure like compost pits; enacting and strictly enforcing relevant laws and ordinances; ensuring adequate funding through local government allocations; creating a multi-sectoral task force to manage the MRF program with support from NGOs and led by the city mayor; and gaining public participation and the executive's political will for proper execution.
The document provides guidance on how to establish a Materials Recovery Facility (MRF). It outlines several key steps: conducting education and advocacy programs to inform the public about waste segregation and the MRF's benefits; establishing proper waste infrastructure like compost pits; enacting and strictly enforcing relevant laws and ordinances; ensuring adequate funding through local government allocations; creating a multi-sectoral task force to manage the MRF program with support from NGOs and led by the city mayor; and gaining public participation and the executive's political will for proper execution.
The document provides guidance on how to establish a Materials Recovery Facility (MRF). It outlines several key steps: conducting education and advocacy programs to inform the public about waste segregation and the MRF's benefits; establishing proper waste infrastructure like compost pits; enacting and strictly enforcing relevant laws and ordinances; ensuring adequate funding through local government allocations; creating a multi-sectoral task force to manage the MRF program with support from NGOs and led by the city mayor; and gaining public participation and the executive's political will for proper execution.
EDUCATION •Believe that knowledge is power and that the people will strongly support if they clearly know what they can benefit from the program. •Let the people know that the program is theirs. •Massive Advocacy / IEC
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ENGINEERING • Waste Segregation at source • Required Compost Pits in backyards • No burning, dumping or littering • Establishment of Materials Recovery Facility
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ENFORCEMENT • Invoke the law, a law without Enforcement has no value • RA 9003, applied nationwide no exemption, Ordinances and resolution
• Impose penalties for violators / Citation tickets
• The Mayor personally leads in enforcement
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EQUITY
• Annual LGU Fund Allocation for ESWM program
• There is no such thing as something out of nothing. No clean environment from clean pockets – we should invest!
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ENVIRONMENTAL ORGANIZATION
• Creation of multi-sectoral ESWM Task Force that manages the
program • A local NGO is supporting the ESWM project in terms of training, advocacy, and fund sourcing • The Task Force ESWM Group is personally headed by the City/Municipal Mayor
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EXECUTION WITH THE PEOPLE / EXECUTIVE’S POLITICAL WILL
•“The heart and soul… test of true
Leadership” •“Be a Leader, not a Politician”.(A politician will only plan/prepare for the next election but the leader plans for the next generations.
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ENLIGHTENMENT FROM ABOVE / DIVINE GUIDANCE
•Man proposes, God disposes
•As Leaders/Managers/Public Servants we are nothing and nobody without God •Our plans and programs must be blessed by God •We should seek divine wisdom in local governance
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THREE FINAL MESSAGES •TO CITIZENS • Don’t let them take your common sense away. Ultimately it should be YOUR decision
•TO POLITICIANS • Put your faith back in people. Stop trying to solve all your problems with magic machines and overpaid consultants