SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT

Where do you want to live?

Nobody wants to live in a
world full of wastes.
 What is waste?
 When a material
can no longer be
used after it has
served its
purpose, it is
considered as
waste.
How much waste is produced
in the Philippines every day?
35,000,000 kilos of garbage
or solid waste every day
 Waste Management
Using the 5Rs Techniques
 5Rs Techniques
 Reduce
 Reuse
 Recycle
 Recover
 Repair
 Reduce
 Reduce simply
means to lessen
the amount of
trash that will
add to the
environment
 Ways to reduce trash
 Buy rechargeable
batteries instead
of disposable
batteries
 Buy products that
have bigger packs
 Reuse
 Reuse means to
find other uses
for materials that
are already used
 Recycle
 Recycle means
creating a new
product out of a
material that
already served
its purpose
Paper recycling
 SCIENCE FACT
Did you know that recycling
two aluminum cans saves
enough energy to power a
television?
 Recover
 Recovering energy
that comes from
the trash itself
 Incineration
technology – one
way of generating
energy from wastes
 It involves producing electricity by
burning garbage in the incinerator.
 Recovering wastes also involves
segregation.
 The garbage
collected are
segregated in a
Materials
Recovery Facility
(MRF).
The collected garbage are
sorted out according to class.
 Repair
 Repair means to fix slightly broken
things be used again
Did you listen?
Thanks
for listening!