This presentation is our group's report about Land Pollution Pertaining to Garbage Disposal in the Philippines to fulfill a requirement in Introduction to Ecology.

1. Land Pollution Pertaining
to Garbage Disposal in
the Philippines
A report by Jovy Delfin, Karol Lonzaga
and Frances Pascua
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2. DEFINITION OF TERMS (keywords)
• Land pollution – the deposition of solid or liquid
waste materials on land or underground
contaminating the soil and groundwater and
threaten public health
• Contaminate – make something impure by
exposure to or addition of a poisonous or polluting
substance
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3. NATURE AND SCOPE
Land pollution
• the degradation of Earth's land surfaces often caused by
human activities and their misuse of land resources.
• occurs when waste is not disposed properly.
Major Causes:
• Urbanization– increasing number of people that live
in urban areas
• Industrialization – a process that happens in
countries when they start to use machines to do work
that was once done by people
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4. URBANIZATION
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INDUSTRIALIZATION

5. NATURE AND SCOPE
Types of Waste Materials:
• Municipal Solid Waste (MSW, also called municipal
refuse)
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6. NATURE AND SCOPE
Types of Waste Materials:
• Construction and Demolition (C&D) waste or debris
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7. NATURE AND SCOPE
Types of Waste Materials:
• Hazardous waste
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8. NATURE AND SCOPE
MSW from homes, institutions, commercial
establishments and industrial facilities include nonhazardous:
• garbage containing moist and biodegradable food
wastes (meat and vegetable scraps)
• rubbish comprising mostly dry materials
(paper, glass, textiles, and plastic objects)
• trash includes bulky waste materials and objects
that are not collected routinely for disposal (discarded
mattresses, appliances, pieces of furniture)
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9. NATURE AND SCOPE
C&D waste (or debris) includes:
• wood
• metal objects
• wallboard
• concrete rubble
• asphalt
• inert materials (produced when structures are
built, renovated, or demolished)
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10. NATURE AND SCOPE
Hazardous wastes include harmful and dangerous
substances by various:
• chemical manufacturing companies
• petroleum refineries
• paper mills
• smelters
• machine shops
• dry cleaners
• automobile repair shops
• many other industries or commercial facilities
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11. HISTORY
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12. HISTORY
Local Government
Units (LGUs)
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13. HISTORY
Sanitary Landfills
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14. HISTORY
Material Recovery Facilities
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15. HISTORY
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16. CAUSES
1. Throwing of garbage anywhere.
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17. CAUSES
2. Undisciplined citizens not disposing garbage
properly.
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18. CAUSES
3. Improper segregation of waste materials.
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19. EFFECTS
• Soil Contamination
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20. EFFECTS
• Air Contamination
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21. EFFECTS
• Animals and Marine Life
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22. EFFECTS
• Animals and Marine Life
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23. EFFECTS
• Animals and Marine Life
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24. EFFECTS
• Animals and Marine Life
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25. MITIGATION
• Pay-as-you-throw program for
communities
ex. purchasing special garbage bags from the
municipality and through the purchase of
special stickers that would need to be affixed
to each can or bag that was to be collected
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26. REFERENCE/S:
•Watts, Jonathan. (June 12, 2012). Scientists: China’s soil pollution could be a bigger longterm problem than air or water. Retrieved from http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/06/12/scientistschinas-soil-pollution-could-be-a-bigger-long-term-problem-than-air-or-water/
•Waste Management Options | Waste Management for Homeland Security Incidents US EPA.
(August 12, 2013) Retrieved from http://www.epa.gov/osw/homeland/options.htm
•Air Pollution Facts, Air Pollution Effects, Air Pollution Solutions, Air Pollution Causes –
National Geographic. Retrieved from http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environment/globalwarming/pollution-overview/
•thinkgreen. e-talk:everything is interconnected. | Page 2. (March 16, 2007). Retrieved from
http://thinkgreen.wordpress.com/page/2/
•Environmental Management Bureau Air > Home > The Philippine Clean Air Act. (n.d.). Retrieved
from http://www.emb.gov.ph/portal/air/Home/ThePhilippineCleanAirAct.aspx
•Hazardous Material Management | Environmental Health & Safety | Washington University in
St. Louis. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://ehs.wustl.edu/hmm/Pages/default.aspx
•File:Material recovery facility 2004-03-24.jpg – Wikimedia Commons. (August 19, 2005).
Retrieved from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Material_recovery_facility_2004-03-24.jpg
•MRF (Materials Recovery Facilities). (n.d.). Retrieved from
http://www.zerowaste.sa.gov.au/resource-centre/image-gallery/mrf-materials-recovery-facilities
•Municipal Budget Office | Local Government Unit of Tubigon, Bohol. (n.d.). Retrieved from
http://www.tubigon.gov.ph/directory/municipal-budget-office/
•.:| DILG : |:.. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.dilg.gov.ph/news.php?id=596&newsCategory=Central
•Urbanization – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. (March 7, 2014). Retrieved from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbanization
•Industrialization – Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. (December 13, 2013).
Retrieved from http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrialization
•MMRDA to frame policy for construction and demolition waste disposal | Urban News Digest.
(n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.urbannewsdigest.in/?p=5569
•ASEAN Biodiversity Updates. (May 2012). Retrieved from http://enews.aseanbiodiversity.org/acb_eweb_may12/
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27. REFERENCE/S:
•Lytle, Claire Le Guern. (November 11. 2009). Plastic Pollution | Coastal Care. Retrieved from
http://coastalcare.org/2009/11/plastic-pollution/
•Save Our Shores Plastic Pollution. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://saveourshores.org/what-wedo/pollution-prevention.php
•Environment: Water pollution & climate change may be killing our oceans | Open Knowledge.
(n.d.). Retrieved from http://knowledge.allianz.com/environment/pollution/?731/water-pollution-andclimate-change-may-be-killing-our-oceans-gallery
•Municipal Solid Waste | Processing, Separation & Recycling of MSW. (December 12, 2013).
Retrieved from http://www.seerdrum.com/municipal-solid-waste.html
•Effects on Environment. (September 27, 2011). Retrieved from
http://www.personal.psu.edu/llb5080/mysite/Effects.html
•landfil. (October 2009). Retrieved from http://www.oocities.org/green_juris/landfil.html
•Pay as you throw. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://infohouse.p2ric.org/ref/07/06846/
•AccessFayettville.org | The City of Fayetteville, Arkansas | Residential Waste and Recycling
Pay-As-You-Throw Trash Cart Program. (n.d.). Retrieved from
http://www.accessfayetteville.org/government/solid_waste/residential/residential%20cart%20program.cf
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