The DENR-EMB is eyeing the approval this year of the remaining 445 LGUs that have yet to agree with the department’s 10-year SWMPs.
SAVING WATERWAY Volunteers, armed with sticks used as trash pickers, clean a section of San Juan River in Batangas province. The environment department says waste from households and livestock farms contribute to pollution of major rivers in Calabarzon. —PHOTO COURTESY OF DENR CALABARZON
MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Environment and Natural Resources – Environmental Management Bureau is eyeing the approval this year of the remaining 445 local government units that have yet to agree with the department’s 10-year solid waste management plans . According to the National Solid Waste Management Commission , 1,147 of 1,592 LGUs have already approved the SWMPs.“To achieve the 100 percent target, the EMB has called on the remaining 445 LGUs with no approved and submitted SWMPs to take proactive actions to develop their plans and have them approved by the NSWMC,” the DENR said in a statement.
The creation of a 10-year SWMPs is a provision under the Republic Act 9003 or the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000, which indicates that ecological solid waste management pertains to a “systematic administration of activities which provide for segregation at source, segregated transportation, storage, transfer, processing, treatment, and disposal of solid waste and all other waste management activities which do not harm the environment.
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