National Solid Waste Management Commission(NSWMC)

Hi, We are an NGO/CSO - developing a Composting Livelihood Program for White Plains Quezon City. We would like to know the budget / cost of hauling food waste and yard waste from White Plains to Landfills. It is our right to know if tax payers money is being used in the most cost effective way as possible. regards. Lanie Francisco

Requesting for updates po and our Case for SUPPORT REPUBLIC ACT NO. 10068 AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE DEVELOPMENT AND PROMOTION OF ORGANIC AGRICULTURE IN THE PHILIPPINES AND FOR OTHER PURPOSESSection 13 Organic Agriculture and Protection of the Environment. - The NOAB shall constantly devise and implement ways and means not only of producing organic fertilizes and other farms inputs and needs on and off the farm but also of helping to alleviate the problems of industrial waste and community garbage through disposal through appropriate methods of sorting, collecting and composting. The BAFPS shall conduct continuing studies, with consultations among the people and officials involved as well as POs and NGOs, in order to advise local governments, from the barangay to the provincial level, on the collection and disposal of garbage and waste in such a way as to provide raw materials for the production of organic fertilizers and other farm imputs. The government has multiple legal and regulatory instruments that facilitate the promotion of the use of organic fertilizers/compost and in turn, support the increase in adoption of organic farming practices nationwide. In CY 2000, Republic Act 9003 or the Philippine Ecological Solid Waste Management Act was enacted and declared as a state policy the use of environmentally-sound methods that maximize the utilization of valuable resources and encourage resource conservation and recovery. Under Section 10 of the Act, the LGUs shall be primarily responsible for the implementation and enforcement of the provisions of the law within their respective jurisdictions. In more specific terms, the law emphasized the use of composting, in combination with the source reduction and recycling components, as a means to reduce a sufficient amount of solid waste disposed within the LGU jurisdictions. On the other hand, Republic Act 10068 or the Organic Agriculture Act was enacted in 2010 to promote and develop organic agriculture in the Philippines. Some of the provisions of RA 10068 are related with RA 9003. The Organic Agriculture Act promotes and encourages the establishment of facilities, equipment and processing plants that would accelerate the production and commercialization of organic fertilizers and other inputs. Furthermore, the law specified that the NOAB, as the policy making body of the National Organic Agriculture Program, shall constantly devise and implement ways and means not only of producing organic fertilizers and other farm inputs and needs on and off the farm but also of helping to alleviate the problems of industrial waste and community garbage disposal through appropriate methods of sorting, collecting and composting. Moreover, appropriate advice will be given to local governments from the barangay to provincial level, on the collection and disposal of garbage and waste in such a way as to provide raw materials for the production of organic fertilizer and other farm inputs.

According to 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 THEREFOR, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES (f) Encourage greater private sector participation in solid waste management; However, it seems the Barangay Officials of White Plains and the Mayor of Quezon City are discouraging private sector participation - even if we are offering training for free so that they can comply with RA 9003... we were told by the Barangay Official that the Office of the Mayor are not encouraging "proprietary" materials. We are not even given an opportuntiy for a dialogue. Even if we have been trying to engage the QC Task Force on Solid Waste Management and the barangay Officials also the Office of the Mayor since July 2021. We were told to wait until the elections are over. and now we were told that they do not promote "proprietary" methods. but they are endorsing BEST Trash to Cashback also opertaed by the private sector