Management Act Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR). - The Department, in coordination with the Committees on Environment and Ecology of the Senate and House of Representatives, respectively, the representatives of the Leagues of Provinces, Cities, Municipalities and Barangay Councils, the MMDA and other concerned agencies, shall promulgate the implementing rules and regulations of this Act, within one (1) year after its enactment: Provided, That rules and regulations issued by other government agencies and instrumentalities for the prevention and/or abatement of the solid waste management problem not inconsistent with this Act shall supplement the rules and regulations issued by the Department, pursuant to the provisions of this Act.
Environmental Education in the Formal and Non-formal Sectors.
- The national government, through the DECS and in coordination with concerned government agencies, NGOs and private institutions, shall strengthen the integration of environmental concerns in school curricula at all levels, with particular emphasis on the theory and practice of waste management principles like waste minimization, specifically resource conservation and recovery, segregation at source, reduction, recycling, re-use and composting, in order to promote environmental awareness and action among the citizenry.
Environmental Education (EE) is a methodology in which people
pick up familiarity with their surroundings and secure learning, abilities, values, experiences, and passion, all of which will empower them to act separately and aggregately to take care of present and future environmental issues. It is the study of relationship and interactions between natural and human systems. In short, environmental education is provided so that people can have a better understanding of the world around them and know how to take care of it properly so that the world can be a better place. Environmental education furnishes individuals with the mindfulness required to build up organizations, comprehend NGO exercises, create participatory methodologies to urban planning, and guarantee future markets for eco-business. All of these are not only good for the environment, but they will also end up being very good for the economy as well, so everyone gets to benefit from the efforts of those who are going through environmental education. EE is taught in schools, communities and in centers like parks, zoos and museums.
Features of Environmental Education (EE) Environmental Education:
1. Is a learning process that expands individuals information and
mindfulness about natures domain and related difficulties, creates the vital abilities and mastery to address the difficulties, instilled confidence and stewardship and cultivates demeanor, inspirations, and responsibilities to settle on educated choices and make dependable moves in the field that they are working with.
2. Is a inter-disciplinary field that integrates fields such as
biology, ecology, earth science, geography, atmospheric science and mathematics because understanding how environment works and keeping it healthy require knowledge and skills from many disciplines. 3. Includes all efforts to make general public aware of the knowledge of the environment and environmental challenges through print materials, media, brochures, bulletins, videos, or other media techniques.
4. Leads to responsible individual and group actions.
5. Provides information about specific environmental concerns or
problems to the general public instead of specific group, religion or community.
6. Works to help you think critically, so that you arent sitting
there trying to fit everything into a neat little box.
7. Involves students in different data-gathering techniques that
help them to discuss, analyze, predict and interpret data about environmental issues.
8. Is study centered, promotes higher level thinking skills and
relevant to students everyday lives.
9. Allows people to discuss about complex environment
problems that has no simple answers.
10. Is a process in which individuals gain
information environmental awareness and acquire knowledge, skills, values, experiences, and determination which can help them to solve different environmental problems. By being passionate about keeping the world around them safe, people will be more likely to apply their particular education to what they are doing, and they will work to take care of the world around them while they are building their company or organization up.
thinking, and compelling choice making abilities, and instructs people to weigh different sides of an environmental issue on order to settle on educated and capable choices. Environmental education does not advocate a specific perspective or game plan; instead, it allows you to make your own choices.
Prohibited Acts. The following acts are prohibited:
(1) Littering, throwing, dumping of waste matters in public places, such as roads, sidewalks, canals, esteros or parks, and establishment, or causing or permitting the same; (2) Undertaking activities or operating, collecting or transporting equipment in violation of sanitation operation and other requirements or permits set forth in or established pursuant to this Act; (3) The open burning of solid waste; (4) Causing or permitting the collection of non-segregated or unsorted waste; (5) Squatting in open dumps and landfills; (6) Open dumping, burying of biodegradable or non- biodegradable materials in flood-prone areas; (7) Unauthorized removal of recyclable material intended for collection by authorized persons; (8) The mixing of source-separated recyclable material with other solid waste in any vehicle, box, container or receptacle used in solid waste collection or disposal; (9) Establishment or operation of open dumps as enjoined in this Act, or closure of said dumps in violation of Sec. 37; (10) The manufacture, distribution or use of non-environmentally acceptable packaging materials; (11) Importation of consumer products packaged in non- environmentally acceptable materials; (12) Importation of toxic wastes misrepresented as recyclable or with recyclable content; (13) Transport and dumping in bulk of collected domestic, industrial, commercial and institutional wastes in areas other than centers of facilities prescribed under this Act; (14) Site preparation, construction, expansion or operation of waste management facilities without an Environmental Compliance Certificate required pursuant to Presidential Decree No. 1586 and this Act and not conforming with the land use plan of the LGU; (15) The construction of any establishment within two hundred (200) meters from open dumps or controlled dumps or sanitary landfills; and (16) The construction or operation of landfills or any waste disposal facility on any aquifer, groundwater reservoir or watershed area and or any portions.