PLANT VISIT: Metro Clark Waste Management Corporation

Waste as defined are any unused material or are of end use. These wastes are brought
by the accumulation of the people of the products that give them satisfaction such as food,
drinks, toiletries, and packaging materials of the different goods. The continuous growth of
waste generation resulted to unwanted outcomes that merely affect the health of the people
and the environment due to the improper waste disposal of the generated wastes. This
problem is our main purpose as we visit the Metro Clark Waste Management Corporation
(MCWMC), to visit and observe how wastes are treated properly for the good of the people and
environment. MCWMC is the only Sanitary Landfill in the Philippines fulfilling all requirements
of the "Ecological Solid Waste Management Act" Republic Act RA 9003. It permits the disposal
of different waste because they have the facilities that will be able to treat those wastes and be
stored properly. The MCWMC has a 100 hectares land devoted for the disposal of waste
including the treatment and the recovery of the material generated such as the water, if further
treated can be used as to supply the water consumption of the corporation. The corporation
just like normal company has management facilities and support facilities that provide the
needs of the firm and the people working inside the MCWMC. The MCWMC has a garbage cell
where they treat the disposed waste. In the said cell leachate generation is stimulated and
brought to the pond. Other toxic wastes were treated to be able to release in the environment
harmless. The corporation said that they can handle as much as 3000 tons/day of waste from
the nearby places. Mode of transportation of waste must be carefully considered due to some
circumstances it can bring to the people.

Generally, the sanitary landfill visit that we have gives us a great opportunity to discover
the magic of trash. Although we were not able to see the actual operation of the treatment of
the waste, still we were able to grasp the process based from the personnel who taught us and
our knowledge in solid waste management. The trash we generate in our everyday living can be
disposed properly to help not just the environment but most essentially ourselves, in order to
avoid the health risk that trashes can bring us. From our visit, I have realized that we must be
responsible of our waste so as not to add up to the mountain of trash that our country
generates. Given that we have a sanitary landfill it does not necessarily mean that we are not
responsible of all our waste. MCWMC is our great access to have our wastes be treated but still
they are in the midst of the testing stage, although almost 74 years is given to them we all know
that as the years pass by, we experience an increasing population, thus, generating more waste.
It is a challenge for each one of us to wake up now and learn to be accountable for our waste so
that we will not add up to the growing problems in waste as well as helping next generations.
Always remember to REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE, and to DISPOSE PROPERLY.