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Developing and managing a waste
disposal in a community or a city is a serious matter of concern. Toying or delaying
its system can go out of control.
In the City of Pines, the garbage
disposal system wasted the City’s finance. Perchance, the local government
officials had been playing their waste management system and were caught by
time where to dump their garbage. Eventually, their garbage became a nuisance to
the locality. It affected their clean and green programs and the tourism industry.
Just recently, one of their garbage disposal areas run into trash slide. It
buried some houses and covered a road. It also contaminated springs and water source
of some communities. The garbage collection is inefficient and the city
government had to pay millions to truck howlers in moving out their garbage to
other landfills outside its territory.
CJH sewer lines flowing downstream |
There are many ways to deal
with garbage as garbage has also many forms. There are also laws that deal with
garbage such as the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act. Other local
government units had adopted this law or prioritized and created their own
Waste Management Ordinance.
We
have a right to live in a clean, safe environment. Individuals and households
also have a responsibility to protect their local environment, and to ensure
that their waste does not create a health problem or nuisance for neighbors. People
should be made aware that penalties can be applied to those who breach local or
state laws. Waste that is not properly managed can create serious health or social
problems in a community.
To this day, there are
technologies that could convert garbage into useful forms. We see mottos that
say “there is money in garbage”. But it is up for our community and officials to
conform to an efficient and inexpensive waste management system.
wastes coming from shopping malls |
One good technology is converting the trash to energy. Every community consumes high cost of electricity. So why not convert this many wastes to energy and decipher the garbage disposal problem. A technology that would convert the wastes to energy, fertilizers or to any useful forms will add income to a locality.
In the Asian region, there
are countries using this technology. This technology revolves around the production of energy pellets out of household waste. The
pellets are produced by shredding and dehydrating trash, specifically plastics
and biodegradable waste. Much of those that cannot be used for energy would
first be removed and used as landfill material.
These pellets, called refuse-derived fuel, will then be used to
power up boilers which can then fuel turbines that will produce electricity.
“The energy pellets burn like coal and have the same if not more of the burning
properties of coal. Of course, the pellets do not have the harmful side effects
that we suffer when we burn fossil fuels like coal”. This will ease garbage piles, which needs
areas for transfer stations and will make our streets and backyards cleaner.
Balili stream with plastic bags, waste coming from Pines City |
This local government had been paying millions to transport its
wastes to other landfills and bought machines from abroad to solve the garbage backlog
but it seems this had not solved the problem. Our officials should deal with
our neighboring Asian government and not with negotiators making business.
Irisan trush slide |
We have many other eco waste technologies but our countrymen
needs financing and partners which our government should look into.
Children looking for a living |
Of course, the actual cost of the machines would have to be
seriously considered. The local government may venture into business such as a
private-public partnership arrangement with government or other business
partnership that will benefit the public.
To tag on the universal mantra of the environmentalists which
are Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, a fourth
principle is recommended which is Convert.
As in converting garbage into fuel to generate power. We should all be
responsible to make our planet safe to live and make it environmental friendly.
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