Metro Manila Solid Waste Management Project (Ta 3848)

Final Report (Report No. 3)

Waste Analysis And Characterization Study (WACS)

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Practitioner’s Resource: Case Studies on Strengthening Local Environmental Governance in the Philippines

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EcoGov Project. 2011. Practitioner’s Resource: Case Studies on Strengthening Local Environmental Governance in the Philippines. Philippine Environmental Governance (EcoGov) Project, Pasig City, Philippines

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Conserving Natural Resource Assets in the Philippines through Improved Local Governance: Good Practices, Co-Benefits and Lessons from the USAID-EcoGov Initiative

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EcoGov Project. 2011. Conserving Natural Resource Assets in the Philippines through Improved Local Governance: Good Practices, Co-Benefits and Lessons from the USAID-EcoGov Initiative. Philippine Environmental Governance (EcoGov) Project, Pasig City, Philippines

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Authors: Jouke D. Boorsma, Rene G. Gaudiel, Johannes G. Paul

[Excerpt from Abstract]

Waste disposal remains a challenge for many municipalities in the Philippines. Main reasons are restricted funds in combination with lack of knowledge and low grade solid waste management (SWM) systems. The presented paper applies Full Cost Accounting (FCA) for the Bayawan City SWM system and discusses issues and impacts of a newly applied “Pay-As-You-Throw” (PAYT) system. Results show that by requesting a minimal fee for waste collection, a significant waste diversion increase for all types of waste materials except for residuals can be obtained. The most substantial diversion is observed for bio-waste whereas the collection rate of such materials declined from 62 to 16 percent in 2010. With an average organic content of 60 percent, PAYT can be considered as a key option to improve the waste disposal situation in the Philippines. Furthermore, the municipality can enhance the profitability of their SWM centre by inviting 3rd party users for waste disposal and by exploring options for recovery of Resource Derived Fuels (RDF).

Source: http://www.grandchallenges.org/Explorations/Topics/WaterSanitation/Pages/Round6.aspx

Grand Challenges Explorations Round 6

August 2010

Roadblock:

Some 2.5 billion people in developing countries around the world practice open defecation or use unsafe pits for their sanitation needs. An additional 2.1 billion people living in urban areas only capture and store their excreta (fecal matter and urine), with no economically viable way to ensure extraction, transport, treatment, and disposal of it once the on-site storage facility is full. The consequences for the poor of these failures are profound: about 1.6 million children die each year from diarrheal disease caused by fecal-oral contamination, while surface waters are contaminated with sewage and excreta, and a fecal film coats the land, particularly in urban areas. Making sanitation services truly safe and sustainable represents an opportunity to reduce the burden of diarrheal disease by 20-40%, and save the lives of millions of children. Improved sanitation will also generate social benefits – particularly for women and girls – as a source of dignity, privacy, and safety.

Poster presentation for the Sardinia 2009, 12th International Waste Management and Landfill Symposium, 5-9 October 2009, S. Margherita di Pula (Cagliari), Sardinia, Italy

[Excerpt from Background]

The application of “Waste-to-Energy” is hardly practiced in developing countries. However,  a utilization as “Alternative Fuels and Raw materials” (AFR), for instance in cement kilns or for household energy supply (e.g. for substituting charcoal) can be a viable option. Materials that can be utilized as AFR include biodegradable waste from agriculture and forestry, but also light density packaging and various plastic materials from Municipal Solid Waste, whereas the latter are hardly utilized in most developing countries so far.
The recovery and utilization of AFR can open up new sources of income and can also help to reduce pressures on the local resource base.

Starting on September 3, 2008, a 100-days test to recover AFR was conducted at the central Material Recovery Facility (MRF) at Calahunan in Iloilo City. The test was conducted over a period of 100 days allowing to establish “routine like working conditions” and to derive impacts and lessons learned.

Within this test various options have been discussed to add more value to the recovered AFR, which could provide access to additional markets. Several value-adding processes were considered, for instance shredding and bailing of AFR, as well as pelletizing and briquetting.

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