ZEROZERO

FOR SCHOOLSFOR SCHOOLSA Module by Liwayway Memije – CruzA Module by Liwayway Memije – Cruz

UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR RESEARCH ON ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT

Zero Waste

Zero Waste maximizes recycling, minimizes waste, reduces consumption and ensures that products are made to be reused, repaired or recycled back into nature or the marketplace.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Its only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to leave each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.

General Objectives:

1. To transform Polytechnic University of the Philippines into Zero Waste Zone.

2. To transform the university into a Zero Waste zone

3. To protect our natural resources from being squandered

4. To send less trash to polluting dumps5. To help cut greenhouse gases (GHG)

that are propelling climate change

Specific Objectives:1. To promote and inculcate ecological

awareness, action and commitment in the university and in the community.

2. To push for university policies and programs that will prevent and reduce wastes and toxins

3. To advance and apply best practices in the ecological waste management including materials substitution, reuse, repair, recycling and composting.

4. To support safe and sustainable livelihood and enterprise for cleaners and recyclers

INTRODUCTIOINTRODUCTIONN

For the last few years, we all know that there is a growing scientific concern about our global environment. Scientists have warned us for decades about environmental abuse. They have been predicting imminent calamity for so long that we tend to ignore them. But could the scientists be right this time?

Very few cities in developing countries have proper facilities for disposing of solid and human waste. Because cities generate so much of both, this is a huge problem to people’s health and the pleasure of living in a city.

There are million people living along the banks of the river in cities. These people deposit nearly all their sewage – almost billion liters per day directly into the river

DEFINITION OF DEFINITION OF TERMSTERMS

Waste ManagementWaste ManagementThe best indicator of resource depletion, and therefore

environmental degradation, is waste. There are two forms of waste: domestic and industrial. Natural ecosystems, including land, water and air, into which this waste is dumped, are not able to assimilate large volumes of waste as fast as they are generated

With increased wealth, more waste is becoming less biodegradable. Industry likewise, generates hazardous and other toxic forms of waste that require special disposal measures. The improper disposal of waste can have long–term impacts, such as pollution of land and water, including underground water aquifers. Furthermore, some illnesses, including leukemia, asthma, chronic bronchitis, dysentery and cholera are linked by the discharge of waste into the environment.

It is noted that, although the poor in the urban areas emit less waste, it is they who are directly dependent on their environment. Thus, the problem of waste disposal poses greater risks to them than to the wealthy.

WASWASTETE

- may be defined as “matter in the wrong place”, implying that what is waste in one person’s hands may become a resource in another. This promotes the idea of considering all waste as possible sources of new materials.

SOLID WASTESOLID WASTE refers to all discarded waste material from household, trade, commercial, industrial, and mining activities.

it includes agricultural waste, construction debris, sludge from sewage treatment plants and other non-hazardous, non-toxic effluent. It also includes waste arising from the conduct of public services.

HOSPITAL WASTEHOSPITAL WASTEHospital waste is

generated during the diagnosis, treatment immunization of human beings or animals. It may include wastes like sharps, soiled waste, disposables, anatomical waste, cultures, discarded medicines, chemical wastes, etc. These are in the form of disposable syringes, swabs, bandages, body fluids, human excreta, etc. This waste is highly infectious and can be a serious threat to human health if not managed in a scientific manner. It has been roughly estimated that of the 4 kg of waste generated in a hospital at least 1 kg would be infected.

SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT

refers to all activities involving the control, transfer and transport, processing and disposal of solid wastes in accordance with the best principles of public health, economics, engineering, conservation, aesthetics, and other environmental considerations. It includes all attendant administrative, financial, legal, planning and engineering functions.

WASTE WASTE SEGREGATIONSEGREGATION

refers to a solid waste management practice of separating different materials found in solid waste in order to promote recycling and re-use of resources to reduce the volume of waste for collection and disposal.

Waste hierarchyWaste hierarchy

The waste hierarchy refers to the "3 Rs" reduce, reuse and recycle, which classify waste management strategies according to their desirability.

ECOLOGICAL SOLID WASTE ECOLOGICAL SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT ACT of 2000MANAGEMENT ACT of 2000

(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.

REDUCTION OF REDUCTION OF WASTEWASTE

What happens to rubbish thrown on the ground? Metal cans take the rest of your lifetime to breakdown and disappear. Glass breaks into tiny pieces and then stays that way. Plastic will survive whole or in pieces for hundreds, perhaps, thousands of years. Shouldn’t we dispose of these materials in a responsible way?

THE 3Rs OF SOLID WASTE THE 3Rs OF SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENTMANAGEMENT

REDUCE Avoid wasteful consumption of goods.

REUSE

Whenever practicable, reuse items that are still useful instead of just throwing them away.

RECYCLEWaste should be treated as valuable resource.

WE can all help reduce WE can all help reduce waste…waste…1. Reject goods in shops that are heavily

packaged; try to buy items loose and unpackaged.

2. Use refillable containers. Repair things instead of throwing them away3. Look for recycled products.4. Give old furniture and other goods to a local

charity or repair workshop.5. Recycle all your paper, card, glass, metal,

plastic, and textiles6. Compost garden and kitchen waste.7. Campaign for better local recycling facilities

in your area, including doorstep collection.

Recycling paperRecycling paper saves forests and energy reduces the amount of

greenhouse gases given off into the atmosphere.

The world recycles only a quarter of its paper today: by doubling this amount we would free millions of hectares of forest from paper production.

Recycling iron and steelRecycling iron and steel

saves energy and water,

cuts out mining wastes,

reduces pollution by three-quarters, and

creates thousands of jobs.

GOAL:GOAL:

Sustained/sustainable cleanliness, orderliness, enhanced ecological balance, beauty, productivity, dignity in the university and its environs.

GENERAL OBJECTIVES:GENERAL OBJECTIVES:

To maximize, optimize, harness, mobilize UNIVERSITY resources both material and human to achieve the vision and goals of ZERO WASTE MANAGEMENT.

1. To make every faculty, student, school personnel learn, appreciate and practice ecological waste management.

2. To make the university an “ecology learning center” and EXEMPLAR for the implementation of Zero

Waste Management through TOTAL RECYCLING, using curricular, co-curricular or extra curricular approaches.

3. To reach out to parents, family, community residents, community leaders through each student, faculty, school personnel for propagation, acceptance, demonstration and implementation of ZERO WASTE MANAGEMENT.

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES:SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES:

ZERO WASTE MANAGEMENTZERO WASTE MANAGEMENT-MULTI-F’S SORTING/RECYCLING -MULTI-F’S SORTING/RECYCLING SCHEMESCHEME

Key steps: There are only two kinds of waste: Biodegradable and Non biodegradable. (Do not mix the two.)

Sort at source, separate, segregate

Package properly for desired, intended use

Use/reuse ecologically. Do not dump. Do not burn. Save for projects. Sell, donate. Reuse. Recycle

CANTEEN GARDEN LABORATORYHUMAN WASTE WASTE WASTE WASTE

*cooking waste *leaves *specimens *soiled napkins *leftovers *flowers *chemicals *wipes **bones *twigs *animal waste *pad excreta***seeds *weeds *carcasses

COVERED CAN/PAIL Legends: *keep in own container/return to supplier/ *feeds do not mix with compost *fermentables **for composting *food materials ***for projects

SCHOOLSCHOOLRE USERE USE

BIODEGRADABLEBIODEGRADABLE(COMPOSTABLE)(COMPOSTABLE)

(NABUBULOK)(NABUBULOK)

MATERIALS FOR MATERIALS FOR UTILIZATIONUTILIZATION

Iron and metal for melting down for the manufacture of new products.Newspaper and magazines for the production of egg boxes, toilet paper, etc.Plastic (polyethylene for the manufacture of new plastic.Cardboard for the manufacture of new cardboard.Writing paper, EDP print-outs, etc, for the manufacture of new paper.Clothes and shoes for social help and charity organizationsEmpty bottles for re-use.Garden refuse for composting.Stone and building refuse for crushing and use as gravel.

The project has two phases:

Phase One - ON - CAMPUS

Phase Two - OFF - CAMPUS

METHODOLOGYMETHODOLOGY

STEPS FOR STEPS FOR IMPLEMENTATION:IMPLEMENTATION:

PHASE ONE : ON CAMPUS:I. Orientation on Concept of Zero Waste Management.II. Appointment of Project Officer (Recycling, or Ecology Officer)III. Formation of Committee or Core Group - To formulate Guidelines for implementing expected of the school. a. To serve as Ecology Learning Center and Exemplar of Zero Waste Management. b. To use the Curriculum Approach for facilitating its implementation. c. To maximize its integration in CO-curriculum activities. d. To research innovate, stimulate creative, appropriate, conservation-oriented, sustainable. ECO-friendly Technologies. e. To foster, enhance “sense of community” pride, belongingness, responsibility through “OUTREACH Activities.”IV. Implementation.V. Evaluation/Documentation.

PHASE TWO : OFF CAMPUS PHASE TWO : OFF CAMPUS (Outreach)(Outreach)

I. Parent- Faculty Association (PFA)II. Activities to enhance community awareness, interest, involvement, and responsibility.III. Organization of students by streets, puroks,barangays, with the help/leadership of a teacher-adviser or volunteer.IV. Simple Action- Planning based on the Project’s three Areas of Concern: Education,Engineering and Material Requirements, and Enforcement.V. Supervision, Monitoring, Evaluation, Reporting progress of activities and Documentation (recording).

STEPS FOR IMPLEMENTATION:STEPS FOR IMPLEMENTATION:PHASE ONE : ON CAMPUS 1. School administrator initiates project and disseminates to the

school population the concept of ecological waste management. 2. A project officer (recycling/ecology officer) is appointed. 3. A committee is formed to formulate guidelines for implementation of the role of the school in both phase one (on- campus) and phase two (off-campus).

A. School as ecology learning center exemplar and demonstration center for ecological waste management.

B. Curriculum approach - to integrate it in all feasible subject areas. e.g. Ecology, Biological Science, Environmental Science, Mathematics, etc.

C. Co-curriculum approach – NSTP/CWTS, eco-clubs, science and technology clubs, and other organizations.

D. D. Research/innovations, appropriate ecological waste technologies, etc.

E. To enhance (‘sense of community’ in teaching/learning strategies, including ‘outreach activities’.

4. Implementation.

5. Evaluation (Documentation).

1. Parent-Faculty Association (PFA):

Every faculty has 50 or more students whose parents are members of the Parent - Faculty Association. Once a month the teachers will meet with these parents, so this can be an important opportunity to discuss, clarify the concept of Ecological Waste Management.

2. Display of School-Community Vicinity Map. To help instill the spirit of community belongingness, pride, ecological awareness, a big- School-Community Map is conspicuously displayed. Visits to the map can be a school activity, interest-generating questions can be written in big letters beside it for all to see and read.eg.a. Do you know your community? Can you locate your neighborhood? Your residence?b. Do you have any environmental / ecological problems related to waste management?c. What are you doing to help solve them?d. What else would you like to be done to solve them?

PHASE TWO: OFF CAMPUS PHASE TWO: OFF CAMPUS (OUTREACH)(OUTREACH)

3. Organization of Students by Streets/Puroks/or Barangays. With the help of a faculty adviser (preferably a regular faculty or any volunteer adviser), students residing in same puroks/streets/barangays will meet, elect leaders(on a rotation basis), discuss the project, and their possible contributions for its succesful implementation.

4. Make simple action plan based on the three areas of concern. Education-Engineering- Enforcement and set time table.

5. Recording and Reporting (Documentation). Progress Reports are prepared and given to teacher adviser for submission to project officer for evaluation and recognition of accomplishments/giving of incentives, etc.

SAMPLE ACTION PLANSAMPLE ACTION PLAN

Problem Ways and Means

Resources Time Table Criteria for Outcome

Evaluation

Large volume of mixed uncollected scattered waste

Educate on sorting-at-source.

Sacks Summer Vacation

Stake holders

Reduction of Waste

Correct sorting of non-waste compostables into compostables

Sorter Summer Vacation

Stake holders

Through Advocacy…Through Advocacy…

Through Information Dissemination…Through Information Dissemination…

Through Barangay Seminars…Through Barangay Seminars…

Through planting a tree Through planting a tree for every happy moment…for every happy moment…

““Anything else you’re Anything else you’re interested in is not going to interested in is not going to happen if you can’t breathe the happen if you can’t breathe the air and drink the water. Don’t sit air and drink the water. Don’t sit this one out. Do something. You this one out. Do something. You are by accident of fate alive at an are by accident of fate alive at an absolutely critical moment in the absolutely critical moment in the history of our planet.history of our planet.

- Carl Sagon