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Republic of the Philippines
Congress of the Philippines
Metro Manila
Eleventh Congress
Third Regular
Session
Begun and held in Metro
Manila, on Monday, the twenty-fourth day of July, two thousand.
REPUBLIC ACT NO. 9003
AN ACT PROVIDING FOR AN ECOLOGICAL SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM,
CREATING THE NECESSARY INSTITUTIONAL MECHANISMS AND INCENTIVES,
DECLARING CERTAIN ACTS PROHIBITED AND PROVIDING PENALTIES,
APPROPRIATING FUNDS THEREFORE, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
Be it enacted
by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in
Congress assembled.
CHAPTER I
BASIC POLICIES
Article 1
General
Provisions
SECTION 1. Short Title. -- This
Act shall be known as the “Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of
2000”.
SECTION 1. Declaration of
Policies. -- It is hereby declared the policy of the State to adopt
a systematic, comprehensive and ecological solid waste management
program which shall:
(a) Ensure the protection of public health and environment;
(b) Utilize environmentally-sound methods that maximize the
utilization of valuable resources and encourage resources
conservation and recovery;
(c) Set guidelines and targets for solid waste avoidance and volume
reduction through source reduction and waste minimization measures,
including composing, recycling, re-use, recovery, green charcoal
process, and others, before collection, treatment and disposal in
appropriate and environmentally-sound solid waste management
facilities in accordance with ecologically sustainable development
principles.
(d) Ensure the proper segregation, collection, transport, storage,
treatment and disposal of solid waste through the formulation and
adoption of the best environmental practices in ecological waste
management excluding incineration;
(e) Promote national research and development programs for improved
solid waste management and resource conservation techniques, more
effective institutional arrangement and indigenous and improved
methods of waste reduction, collection, separation and recovery.
(f)Encourage greater private sector participation in solid waste
management;
(g) Retain primary enforcement and responsibility of solid waste
management with local government units while establishing a
cooperative effort among the national government, other local
government units, non-government organizations, and the private
sector;
(h) Encourage cooperation and self-regulation among waste generators
through the application of market-based instruments;
(i)Institutionalize public participation in the development and
implementation of national and local integrated, comprehensive and
ecological waste management programs; and
(j) Strengthen the integration of ecological solid waste management
and resource conservation and recovery topics into the academic
curricula of formal and non-formal education in order to promote
environmental awareness and action among the citizenry.
Article 2
Definitions of Terms
SECTION 3.
Definition of Terms. – For the purpose of this Act::
(a) Agricultural waste shall refer to waste generated from planting
or harvesting of crops, trimming or pruning of plants and wastes or
run-off materials from farms or fields;
(b) Bulky wastes shall refer to waste materials which cannot be
appropriately placed in separate containers because of either its
bulky size, shape or other physical attributes. These include large
worn-out or broken household, commercial, and industrial items such
as furniture, lamps, bookcases, filing cabinets, and other similar
items;
(c) Bureau shall refer to the Environmental Management Bureau;
(d) Buy-back center shall refer to a recycling center that purchases
or otherwise accepts recyclable materials from the public for the
purpose of recycling such materials;
(e) Collection shall refer to the act of removing solid waste from
the source or from a communal storage point;
(f)Composting shall refer to the controlled decomposition of organic
matter by micro-organisms, mainly bacteria and fungi, into a
humus-like product;
(g) Consumer electronics shall refer to special wastes that include
worn-out, broken, and other discarded items such as radios, stereos,
and TV sets;
(h) Controlled dump shall refer to a disposal site at which solid
waste is deposited in accordance with the minimum prescribed
standards of site operation;
(i) Department shall refer to the Department of Environment and
Natural Resources;
(j) Disposal shall refer to the discharge, deposit, dumping,
spilling, leaking or placing of any solid waste into or in any land;
(k) Disposal site shall refer to a site where solid waste is finally
discharged and deposited;
(l) Ecological solid waste management shall refer to the 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;
(m) Environmentally acceptable shall refer to the quality of being
re-usable, biodegradable or compostable, recyclable and not toxic or
hazardous to the environment;
(n) Generation shall refer to the act or process of producing solid
waste;
(o) Generator shall refer to a person, natural or juridical, who
last uses a material and makes it available for disposal or
recycling;
(p) Hazardous waste shall refer to solid waste or combination of
solid waste which because of its quantity, concentration, or physical, chemical or infectious characteristics may:
(1) cause, or significantly contribute to an increase in mortality
or an increase
in serious irreversible, or incapacitating reversible, illness; or
(2) pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human health
or the
environment when improperly treated, stored, transported, or
disposed of,
or otherwise managed;
(q) Leachate shall refer to the liquid produced when waste undergo
decomposition, and when water percolate through solid waste
undergoing decomposition. It is a contaminated liquid that contains
dissolved and suspended materials;
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