OPEN DUMP SITE IN

BICOL REGION
CASE ANALYSIS
INTRODUCTION

• Solid waste management services of the Legaspi City Government is

presently handled by the Office of the City Environment and Natural
Resources, one of the city offices in charge of the environment and natural
resources undertakings. The approach of the city towards solid waste
management from merely garbage collection and disposal has evolved into
a paradigm shift in a manner called Ecological Solid Waste Management
system.
PROBLEM/ISSUES

• Legaspi City’s Open Dumpsite (Informal waste sector)

In the environment, chemicals and other contaminants found in solid
waste can seep into our groundwater and can also be carried by rainwater
to rivers and lakes that provide essential wildlife habitat. These contaminates
can also end up in our ground water, rivers and lakes that are our sources
for drinking water. Dumped solid waste, when visible from roadways, is
aesthetically unpleasing.
 Economics being a science of choice analyses how people
choose to employ scarce resources that could have alternative
uses in order to produce goods and services and to distribute
them for consumption, in the present or in 3 the future, among
various persons and groups in society.
 The open dumpsite is situated in a remote location and it
is devoid of community residents. There are no informal settlers
residing or “squatting” in the area, thus, no residential structures
either permanent or temporary in nature exists. The presence of
the waste pickers in the dumpsite is limited only to a situation
where the sanitary landfill facility could not be operated due to
heavy rainfall occurrence.
 An open dump site can give distraction to the tourist
destinations wherein its beauty and cleanliness will be affected.
POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS

• Solid Waste Management: Collection, Transporting, Recycling

and Processing Disposal
• Waste Reduction: Stop Throwing Things Out and Use Less
Packaging
• Using the 3R’s: Reduce, Re-use and Recycle
CONCLUSION

A typical waste management system in a developing economy

includes several components. They are waste generation and storage,
segregation, reuse, and recycling at the household level, primary waste
collection and transport to a transfer station or community bin, street
sweeping and cleansing of public places, management of the transfer station
or community bin, secondary collection and transport to the waste disposal
site, waste disposal in landfills, collection, transport, and treatment of
recyclables at all points on the solid waste pathway (collection, storage,
transport, and disposal)
 In the past, these important components of waste management were
often 111 regarded only from an engineering and technical viewpoint.
However, currently it is realized that these elements are embedded in the
local institutional, socio-cultural, and economic context, which is further
influenced by national politics, policies, and legislation as well as national and
global and economic factors. Hence, physical handling of solid waste and
recyclables (storage, collection, transport, treatment, and so on) is just one
SWM activity; it alone cannot fulfill the requirement for sustainable and
integrated solutions to this problem in the cities
RECOMMENDATION

Improve information at city level. Collect, document, and

analyze local problems and good local practices, and analyze the
waste stream and what is already happening to materials. To
Develop, disseminate, and use better financial tools, systems, and
incentives that promote affordability, fairness, and burden-sharing
is to build on what works using the 3Rs in waste management.
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