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PROMOTING A CULTURE OF DISCIPLINEAMONG THE YOUTH THROUGH ECOLOGICAL

SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT



DATE STARTED – June 2004

TARGET PARTICIPANTS: students and teachersof all public schools. Households of these

students and teachers.No. of public schools: 27

Student/teacher population: 70,699

Source of funds: Initially from UNDP

(US$5,000.00) for the printing of passbooks



Marikina City has been known to be a

benchmark of environmental cleanliness andeffective solid waste management. It was thefirst city in Metropolitan Manila to fullyimplement the waste segregation program,

which is basic in ecological wastemanagement. The Ecological solid wastemanagement Act of 2001 requires cities toadopt a waste segregation scheme to pave the

way for the realization of an initial wastediversion of 20% through reuse, reduce,recycle.



Estimated waste generation/day: 250 tons

Percentage of biodegradable: 45%

Percentage of non biodegradable:55%, about

80% of which are recyclable Est. Cost of waste management: P1.00/kg or

P250,000.00/day



Students need a healthy and livablecommunities

Junkshops need an opportunity to expand

their businessCity government needs to realize its waste

reduction goal and entice people to practiceecological waste management



To educate and achieve the target 100,000

households in Marikina to religiously practicewaste segregation and recovery of recyclablewastes be enlisting public school students andteachers to be eco savers.

To gradually realize the waste diversion target of20% through recycling

To eventually reduce the cost being incurred bythe city in its solid waste management program

To instill the value of environmental concern,preservation of health, consciousness on theamount and type of wastes they produce, andthe importance of savings



City government – tapped the participation ofstudents in order to penetrate the households inthe city’s advocacy campaign for waste

reduction and recycling. Distributed passbook toeach student/teacher. Met with principals,

parents and teachers to explain the program Junkshops – tie up with city government

Students – monitor their waste generation at thehousehold and retrieve dry recyclables and bring

them to school during the assigned Eco Day.



“Eco Savers” conveys a lot of meanings,

including the following:

1. Saver of ecological system by being aware

of sound environmental practices.2. An ecological solid waste management

practitioner from a household

3. Economic savings realized through recycling

of garbage



The Eco Savers program has awakened andharnessed the value of savings and the culture

of discipline, capitalizing on wastemanagement at source.



On the part of city government: the program hascontributed to the decrease in the cost being incurred inthe disposal of solid waste. From the 50 truckloads a dayto the dumpsite, now it has gradually gone down to anaverage of 30 a day.

Individual savings or points earned, within a school yearperiod, range from US$2 to US$40, which helped defraythe expenses on school supplies being borne by parents.

The program has provided junkshops within the city withregular clientele, helping boost their economic activities

The monetary value of the recyclables under this programhas reached a total of P9,785,912.84 (US$228,000.00) from2004-2011, which could have ended up in the dumpsite hadthey not been recovered.



The program has encouraged theinvolvement of the parents paving the wayfor regular interaction with teachers and city

government personnel.The program has stirred the consciousness

and curiosity of the community, therebypromoting waste segregation and recycling

practices at the household level.



The program, its objectives,methodologies, and long-term benefits, work

to the advantage of every citizen of the city.



RECOVEREDRECYCLABLES

( SY 2004-2012)

QTY.( kgs. / tons )

WHAT YOU USETO PRODUCE

WHAT YOU USEWHEN RECYCLE

SAVED /Carbon captured

PAPER 1,004,730 kgs.. /1,004 tons

17,080 mature trees24,113,520 gallons

of water1,260,936.2 lbs. CO2

released

0 trees10,127,678.4 gallons

of water894,209.7 lbs. CO2

released

17,080 mature trees13,985,841.6 gallons of

water366,726.5 lbs. CO2 not

released orcaptured

PLASTIC 415,640 kgs. /415.6 tons

284.713.4 gallonsof oil

2,399,905.36 kwhenergy

0 gallon of oil

288,038.52 kwhenergy

284,713.4 gallonsof oil

2,111,866.84 kwhenergy

GLASS 493.76 tons 656,700.8 lbs. ofsand

217,748.16 lbs. CO2released

0 sand

508.57 lbs. CO2released

656,700.8 lbs. ofsand

217,239.59 lbs.CO2 notreleased

The decreased no. of trips being made by the garbage trucks has contributed toTraffic decongestion, less air pollution, and more energy conservation.



The program has made the constituents feel

the presence of the city government,thereby strengthening their faith in theirgovernment

It also manifests the strong political will ofthe city government in implementing boldand innovative programs aimed at attainingfull compliance with the law.

It has also become a benchmark for otherlocal government units during their study

tours.



Strength: city’s efficient and effective solid waste

management plays a strong component of theprogram and the economic impact it creates (there’smoney in recycling)

Weakness: the program requires a lot of clerical work(i.e. recording, computation, monitoring, etc.)

Opportunity: the program and its implementingstrategies can easily be replicated through public orprivate initiative. This will help and inspire othercities to look for ways to achieve their wastereduction and waste diversion targets and at thesame time educating the constituents.

Threat: the possibility of waning interest in theprogram caused by the “flash in the pan” mentality.



The city government initiated theconceptualization, determined the

stakeholders, met with these stakeholders,formulated the guidelines, and brought aboutthe printing of the needed passbooks. Therewas no financial equity from the participants,

just recyclables from their households.



ACROSS THE BOARD INVOLVEMENT.Teachers take the lead in practicingthe tenets of the Eco Savers programOther school personnel are just asinvolved, sharing a common desireto further ecological solid wastemanagement efforts.

STARTING THEM YOUNG. Pupils getan early training in the recovery of

recyclable household wastes. It’s an experience that instills in themthe values of discipline & concernfor the environment.

DOING THE NUMBERS E



DOING THE NUMBERS. EcoSavers personnel record in theindividual passbooks the pointsthat correspond to the re-cyclable wastes students bring

to school.

EMBRACING ECO DAY. ParangElem. Sch. Is one of the 17Public elem. Schools in Mari-kina whose students activelytake part on Eco Day. Evenparents show their full-fledged support to the wastemanagement advocacy.



PAYBACK TIME. Public school children take their pick from an array ofBooks and other educational materials at the Eco Savers Mobile Store

- A privilege engendered by their contribution to the Eco Savers Club.



AWARDED THE MOST OUTSTANDING LOCALGOVERNMENT PROGRAM BY THE GALING POOKFOUNDATION IN 2007 (a national award given to localgovernment units with exemplary best practices)

Endorsed and promoted by the Solid WastePractitioners of the Philippines (SWAPP) by publishinga handbook “Starting an Eco Savers Program (A guideto local government units). The publication wassponsored by Coca Cola Phils.SWAPP also initiated thereplication in about 50 public and private schools in

the province of Cavite, Philippines Replicated by Philippine Airlines (PAL) as their csr

project in 3 schools in Paranaque City (their host city)

Replicated by neighbor cities: Quezon city and PasigCity



Adopted by the national government forreplication in all public schools across thecountry through the collaborations betweenthe Department of Environment and NaturalResources (DENR), Department of Education(DepEd), Department of Interior and LocalGovernment (DILG), Local government units.Target start of implementation: SY 2013. Theprogram title is National Eco Savers Program(NEP)



Presented at the World urban Forum held inVancouver, Canada in 2006 under the Pro-poor PublicPrivate Partnership advocacy programs. Sponsored bythe UNDP

Presented at the International Congress of EducatingCities held in Changwon, South Korea in April 2012,sponsored by the City government of Changwon andCitynet.

Presented as a best practice in the Partnership forDemocratic Local Governance in Southeast Asia(DELGOSEA). Marikina City participated as amentoring city to cities in Vietnam, Indonesia andCambodia. The Eco Savers program is already beingreplicated in Vinh City in Vietnam, Kampot inCambodia, Kupang and Tarakan cities in Indonesia.



Presented at the Waste Forum held in Singaporein 2008 sponsored by the Singapore govt.

Presented, upon invitation, before the differentcities and municipalities in their respectivelocalities and during study tours in Marikina,before different associations like the MetroManila Mayors spouses, Congressional spouses,Rotary Clubs, military camps, etc.

Featured in various local television programsevery now and then and over at Channel NewsAsia, Singapore.



Visit us at

www.marikina.gov.ph

FB account: cemomarikina

http://www.marikina.gov.ph/

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