Republic Act 9003

“Ecological Solid Waste

Management Act of 2000” FERNIE D. SITSIT
Environmental Management
Specialist II
DENR EMB-CAR
SALIENT
FEATURES OF
RA 9003
A neighbor is burning their
waste, who do we report it?
Section 10
 Role of LGUs in Solid Waste Management. —
Pursuant to the relevant provisions of R.A. No. 7160, otherwise
known as the Local Government Code, the LGUs shall be
primarily responsible for the implementation and enforcement
of the provisions of this Act within their respective
jurisdictions.
Segregation and collection of solid waste shall be conducted at
the barangay level specifically for biodegradable, compostable
and reusable wastes: Provided, That the collection of non-
recyclable materials and special wastes shall be the
responsibility of the municipality or city.
Section 12
 City and Municipal Solid Waste
Management Board.
— Each city or municipality shall form a City or
Municipal Waste Management Board that shall
prepare, submit and implement a plan for the safe
and sanitary management of solid waste
generated in areas under its geographic and
political coverage.
 Waste Analysis and Characterization Study of
Baguio City (2015)
0.4
Biodegradable
Recyclable 24.15
41.67
Residual
Special Wastes 33.78
 Types of Waste

 Biodegradable (Nabubulok)
Can be degraded or processed by any biological
entity
 Non – Biodegradable (Di-Nabubulok)
Requires management through mechanical or
chemical means
 BIODEGRADABLE
Kitchen Waste
e.g. Animal Entrails; Vegetable and Fruit
Trimmings; Swill (Excess/ Food Scraps)

Yard Waste
e.g. dead plants, leaves, and small
branches
 RECYCLABLE
 Any waste material that has economic value;
 Waste material that will be reprocessed or used as raw
material to produce another product; and
 Requires re-processing/ processing
SPECIAL WASTES
1. Hazardous wastes
used paints, used oil, batteries, chemical containers, e waste, busted bulbs,
expired medicine and cosmetics,
2. Non – Household HCW
hospital/ clinical waste from medical procedures and processes
3. COVID Related Health Care Wastes
Face masks, PPEs, tissue
(label it with hazardous wastes/infectious wastes)
4. Bulky wastes
Bulky yard wastes, rubber tires, construction debris, and demolition debris
Section 20
 Establishing Mandatory Solid Waste Diversion.
— Each LGU plan shall include an implementation schedule
which shows that within five (5) years after the effectivity of this
Act, the LGU shall divert at least 25% of all solid waste from
waste disposal facilities through re-use, recycling, and
composting activities and other resource recovery activities:
Provided, That the waste diversion goals shall be increased every
three (3) years thereafter: Provided, further, That nothing in this
Section prohibits a local government unit from implementing re-
use, recycling, and composting activities designed to exceed the
goal.
SECTION 21.
Mandatory Segregation of Solid Wastes
— The LGUs shall evaluate alternative roles for the
public and private sectors in providing collection
services, type of collection system, or combination of
systems, that best meet their needs: Provided, That
segregation of wastes shall primarily be conducted at
the source, to include household, institutional,
industrial, commercial and agricultural sources
SECTION 26. Inventory of Existing Markets for
Recyclable Materials.
SECTION 28. Reclamation Programs and Buy-back
Centers for Recyclables and Toxics.

SECTION 29. Non-Environmentally Acceptable Products

SECTION 30. Prohibition on the Use of Non-
Environmentally Acceptable Packaging.
 SECTION 32.
Establishment of LGU Materials Recovery Facility.
— There shall be established a Materials Recovery Facility
(MRF) in every barangay or cluster of barangays. The
facility shall be established in a barangay-owned or -leased
land or any suitable open space to be determined by the
barangay through its Sanggunian. For this purpose, the
barangay or cluster of barangays shall allocate a certain
parcel of land for the MRF.
 SECTION 32.
Establishment of LGU Materials Recovery Facility.
— There shall be established a Materials Recovery Facility
(MRF) in every barangay or cluster of barangays. The
facility shall be established in a barangay-owned or -leased
land or any suitable open space to be determined by the
barangay through its Sanggunian. For this purpose, the
barangay or cluster of barangays shall allocate a certain
parcel of land for the MRF.
SECTION 37.
Prohibition Against the Use of Open Dumps for Solid Waste.
— No open dumps shall be established and operated, nor any
practice or disposal of solid waste by any person, including
LGUs, which constitutes the use of open dumps for solid waste,
be allowed after the effectivity of this Act: Provided, That
within three (3) years after the effectivity of this Act, every
LGU shall convert its open dumps into controlled dumps, in
accordance with the guidelines set in Sec. 41 of this Act:
Provided, further, That no controlled dumps shall be allowed
five (5) years following the effectivity of this Act.
SECTION 37.
Prohibition Against the Use of Open Dumps for Solid Waste.
— No open dumps shall be established and operated, nor any
practice or disposal of solid waste by any person, including
LGUs, which constitutes the use of open dumps for solid waste,
be allowed after the effectivity of this Act: Provided, That
within three (3) years after the effectivity of this Act, every
LGU shall convert its open dumps into controlled dumps, in
accordance with the guidelines set in Sec. 41 of this Act:
Provided, further, That no controlled dumps shall be allowed
five (5) years following the effectivity of this Act.
Role of LGU or Private Operators
DAO 09-2006

 They shall prepare and implement a Safe

Closure and Rehab Plan for the existing open
dumpsite and/or controlled dump facilities .
The said program shall be viewed as an
integral part of the overall implementation of
the LGU Solid Waste Management Plan
 SECTION 40
Criteria for Siting a Sanitary Landfill
SECTION 41
Criteria for Establishment of Sanitary
Landfill
SECTION 42
Operating Criteria for Sanitary Landfills
 THE FOLLOWING CONDITIONS MUST
BE MET PRIOR TO THE ESTABLISHMENT
OF A WTE FACILITY
A. ALL WtE facilities shall undergo EIS System and secure all
applicable environmental permits, clearances, and other legal
requirements from concerned agencies prior to construction, set-
up and operation of a WtE facility
B. Documentation for Compliance with the requirements of PD 1586
shall include an environmental and health risk assessment
C. The host LGU including the LGUs where the source of the
feedstock will originate from shall ensure that the plan to establish
and/or utilize WtE facility is integrated in their 10 year solid waste
management plan consistent with the provisions of the RA 9003
 THE FOLLOWING CONDITIONS MUST
BE MET PRIOR TO THE ESTABLISHMENT
OF A WTE FACILITY
d. The host LGU are allowed to implement clustering and/or from partnership
with the private sector in the establishment. Construction, and operation of the
WtE facility
e. The proponent shall submit an Environmental Technology Verification (ETV)
Statement and Report following the DOST ETV Protocol as per DENR-DOST
Joint Administrative Order 2006-001
f. The WtE facility proponent should develop a manual of operation and
quality assurance and control to be submitted to EMB for monitoring purposes
-maintain, at the highest possible standards, a quality control/ assurance system
to demonstrate its ability to consistently provide products and services
IMPLEMENTING
SOLID WASTE
MANAGEMENT
AND THE CHALLENGES
AHEAD……

Fernie D. Sitsit
SWM Staff
EMB-CAR
Abra, Benguet, and Baguio City

Abra has 27 municipalities with 27

approved 10-year SWM Plans

Benguet has 13 municipalities with

13 approved 10-year SWM plans

 Baguio City’s 10-year Solid Waste

Management Plan was the first plan in
CAR to be approved
Abra, Benguet, and Baguio City

1 operating sanitary landfill in

Benguet
1 sanitary landfill under
construction in Abra

1 operating transfer station in

Baguio City
12 LGUs in Benguet operating an RCA
in Benguet
27 LGUs in Abra operating an RCA
 Over all policy of RA 9003 based on
Waste Management Hierarchy
Avoidance

Household/Commercial
Influencing

Generator
responsibility
Reduction

Direct Reuse

Barangay
responsibility Most
Recycling preferred

Municipality/ Cities
option
Recovery
Treatment
province
Metro
wide/

Least
Safe preferred
Disposal option
26
An estimated 64 million
pieces of sachets are used
daily in the Philippines

Presentation title
27 Avoidance
Section 30. Prohibition on the
Use of Non-Environmentally
Reduction
Acceptable Packaging
Reuse S.B. NSWMC
1866 Resolution
otherwise
Senate Bill 246 no. as
known
"The 1428,out
Plastic
phasing series
Straw of use
and
single Stirrer
Recycling House
2021.
Abra Ban ofBill
Resolution 1038
declaring
2018"
municipalities
plastics and incentivizing has
Recovery the plastic
Provincial softdrink
ordinance
consumers straw
and and
2015
Treatment
plastic
6s2013 HB1248
coffee stirrer
municipalities
“Prohibiting
manufacturers of as
who NEAP.
Benguet
use
willof
including
plastic bags
embrace Baguio
on dry City
alternatives has
goods
and
Safe
Disposal
their
and own “single-use
regulating
penalizes erring plastic
utilization
parties on
ordinance”
wet goods
Presentation title
28 Avoidance
RA 11898 Extended producer
Responsibility Act
-basically obliges the big
Reduction
Green Procurement Policy
companies to adopt or
Reuse EO 301 s.2004
implement EPR program to
All government departments,
Recycling collect plastic packaging,
offices and agencies are hereby
Recovery reducetoproduction,
ordered establish their
importation,
perspective supply,
“Green or use
Procurement
Treatment
Program”.
Safe
Disposal

Presentation title
29 Avoidance
Reuse VS Recycle
Recycling -when you take an
Reduction
item’s materials and
Eco-Labelling reprocess
Reuse
them RA
to
Section be 11898
Recycling
used covers
Market
elsewhere.
32. Establishment of
(1) Coding
Buy-back; system
(2) for
Collection
Recycling LGU Development.
packagingMaterials
Reuse-repurposing Recovery
items and
materials and
for reuse/recycling;
Establishment of
Facility (3)
procedures,
products for extended
products to use.
facilitate
Recovery Clean-upand
standards of wastes;
strategies(4)to
waste
Establishment recycling
of recycling,
Treatment market and
recyclable
reuse.materials
composting,
and develop localthermal
market.
Safe
Disposal treatment, and other waste
diversion
Presentation title
 Composting
Avoidance
30
Biogas Digester
Reduction e.g.promotes the
this technology
Reuse
1 ton
recovery load of of
and use
Plastic carabao
biogas as
shredder
renewable
manure
Operation stock
of energy
= 6 by
hours
alternative
Glass pulverizer
Recycling
What
of is
collecting,the
harvested result
impounding
biogas
technologies
Bio composter of the
and
for
Recovery conversion
efforts
household
Section of manure
done
20. on
cooking orand
waste
reuse,
Establishing
To establish that there
Plastictorecycling
gas is
Treatment Mandatory
waste recycling,
heating
Solid Waste
diversion:
equipment
recover?
Diversion
Safe
Disposal
RECORD!!!
Presentation title
 Avoidance
WHAT ARE OUR
31

Reduction
NSWMC OPTIONS
ResolutionIN 79 s2014
Reuse amendsMANAGEMENT
the NSWMC Resolution OF 26
DAO 2019-21
2010-06
RESIDUAL?
s2009
Recycling 9 out of 29 cement plants in the
Recovery Waste-to-Energy
Amended
country
Guidelines
“An isby
Eco-SWM DAO
a on
co the
park is2021-14
processing
use of
NOT an
Treatment
-toxic
optionand
alternative hazardous
to Sanitary wastes
fuels Landfill”
(WtE)Facilities
facility and raw
re: covid-19
-instead ofresponse
coal, and
refused-
materials in cement kilns the
Safe healthcare
derivedhazardous
fuel is usedwastes
Disposal
for co processing
Presentation title
 Avoidance
Residual
32

Reduction _Employ
Residual best engineering
Containment
Containment Area Area
design storage
is a TEMPORARY
Reuse
For residuals
_allow storage of waste w/o
Recycling
for segregated dry residual
any adverse
_Plans
_operator effect
for PROMPT
shall
wastes on public
maintain
Recovery
health,safety,
removal of the
clear(DAO
and welfare,
waste and
accurate
2019-21) or
Treatment the environment
disposal or processing
operational records toat
Safe
another permitted
assure the operation facility
is in
Disposal
accordance to the law
Presentation title
33 Avoidance

Reduction

Reuse Transfer
The design Station
shall give
primary consideration
Sec 24, IRR RA 9003to size
Recycling
and space sufficiency
Provided, That no in order
waste
Recovery to accommodate the waste
shall be stored in such
for storage and vehicles for
Treatment
station beyond twenty-four
loading and unloading of
Safe
(24) hours.
wastes.
Disposal

Presentation title
 EQUATION OF WASTE GENERATION

50 + 3 family X .5 kilos per capita

OFFICERS members x 50
generation

X 365 days/yr

= 36,500 kilos
=3.6 tons
 EQUATION OF INFLUENCE

50 + 50 families x 3 family x schools,

officers members offices,
community
“Its just …..said 8
1 straw billion people”