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Waste Management FAQS
Waste Management FAQS
2. What are the rules and regulations guiding waste management in the Philippines?
3. What are the common methods of waste disposal?
3.1 What is aerobic composting?
3.2 What is anaerobic composting?
3.3 What is incineration?
3.4 What is a sanitary landfill?
Part 2: Easy and effective ways for individuals to handle waste
4. How do I practice waste management at home?
5. What are the first few steps to initiate a waste management programme in your apartment complex?
6. What are the different types of waste?
7. What are ways of storing the waste at homes?
7.1 Dry waste
7.2 E-waste
8. How do I dispose my waste?
8.1 Compost your wet waste at home
8.2 Compost your wet waste at the community level
8.3 Biomedical waste has to be wrapped separately in a newspaper and handed over to the municipality waste
collection system. Expired medicines and injections, used syringes also have to be disposed in the same
manner.
9. How do I manage my garden waste?
Keep separate containers for dry and wet waste in the kitchen.
Keep two bags for dry waste collection- paper and plastic, for the rest of the household waste.
Keep plastic from the kitchen clean and dry and drop into the dry waste bin. Keep glass /plastic
containers rinsed of food matter.
Keep a paper bag for throwing sanitary waste.
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5. What are the first few steps to initiate a waste management programme in your apartment complex?
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6. What are the different types of waste?
6.1 Wet waste
Wet waste consists of kitchen waste - including vegetable and fruit peels and pieces, tea leaves, coffee
grounds, eggshells, bones and entrails, fish scales, as well as cooked food (both veg and non-veg).
6.2 Dry Waste
Paper, plastics, metal, glass, rubber, thermocol, styrofoam, fabric, leather, rexine, wood – anything that can be
kept for an extended period without decomposing is classified as dry waste.
6.3 Hazardous waste
Household hazardous waste or HHW include three sub-categories – E-waste; toxic substances such as paints,
cleaning agents, solvents, insecticides and their containers, other chemicals; and biomedical waste.
6.4 E-waste
E-waste or electronic waste consists of batteries, computer parts, wires, electrical equipment of any kind,
electrical and electronic toys, remotes, watches, cell phones, bulbs, tube lights and CFLs.
6.5 Biomedical waste
This includes used menstrual cloth, sanitary napkins, disposable diapers, bandages and any material that is
contaminated with blood or other body fluids.
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7. What are ways of storing the waste at homes?
7.1 Dry waste
Store it in a bag in the utility area after cleaning and drying till it is picked up. No food residue must be left in
the bottles and packets. Clean them as you would to reuse them. If clothes are totally unusable, or very
damaged, they are categorized as dry waste. If clothes are soiled with body fluids, they become sanitary waste.
If they are soiled with paint, or any chemicals, they are HHW (household hazardous waste).
7.2 E-waste
Store them in separate container which is kept closed, away from moisture and in which nothing else is put.
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8. How do I dispose my waste?
8.1 Compost your wet waste at home
Home composting can easily be done in any aerated container. Get more details on composting and begin
composting today!
8.2 Compost your wet waste at the community level
If you live in a large apartment building, a community composting system like tank composting could be set
up for all the wet waste from the residents. If not, the wet waste can be given out every day to your
Municipality collection system.
8.3 Biomedical waste has to be wrapped separately in a newspaper and handed over to the municipality waste
collection system. Expired medicines and injections, used syringes also have to be disposed in the same
manner.
Paint and other hazardous waste like cosmetics, mosquito repellents, tube lights etc have to be stored
separately and handed over to the Municipal collection system.
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9. How do I manage my garden waste?
You can compost your garden waste. There are several decentralized, easy to use methods available for
composting garden waste. Here is a step-by-step guide to treat garden waste.