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to leave behind their old, environmentally harmful practices. Households
are asked to take care of their garbage because the dump is reserved
for commercial and market refuse.
Paying for Itself
Sta. Barbara’s solid waste management practice is simple and lowcost.
The municipality did not dole out a large sum of money to get the
program started and maintain its operation. The bulk of expenses went
to trainings and seminars for barangay officials snd other people involved
in information dissemination. Instead of hiring new workers, the
municipality merely assigned additional tasks to the sanitary inspectors.
The town did not hire additional casuals to do the segregating and
collecting of garbage. The vendors themselves were assigned to this
task. The truck owned by the local Liga ng mga Barangay was used for
transporting garbage.
Waste segregation, which is a vital component of the program, has
been easily replicated in 8 barangays. The Department of Education
has also replicated the segregation of waste in all its 28 schools in Sta.
Barbara. The municipality has opened its doors for other communities
from nearby towns and provinces to visit and learn from the program.
The solid waste management program will be replicated in all of the
town’s 60 barangays before 2012.
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