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S U S T A I N A B L E D E V E L O P M E N T A S P E C T S
Municipal budgets for solid waste management include garbage collection and
construction of material recovery facilities (MRFs).
Pollution and Waste Management
Management plans
from PhP161,000 to PhP66M. Budgets allotted for solid
waste management include garbage collection, construction
of material recovery facilities (MRFs) and the operation of
Solid Waste Management Boards (SWMBs).
Lemery, Nasugbu, San Juan and Tingloy reportedly
formed municipal SWMBs. In 2007, 26 out of 34 cities
and municipalities, and 522 out of 1,078 barangays have
established MRFs (Solid Waste Management Status
Report, 2007).
The Provincial Government has established and sustains
a water quality monitoring program for Batangas Bay and
Pansipit River, which started in 1997 and 2002, respectively.
Quarterly water quality monitoring of Balayan Bay was also
initiated during the last quarter of 2007. The monitoring
program has been augmented by the Multipartite Monitoring
Teams that are set up for monitoring selected industrial
operations. The Batangas Environment Laboratory
(BEL), which conducts water quality monitoring in the
province, was established in 1998. An expanded BEL
facility with additional laboratory equipment was acquired
in 2002. Provincial Ordinance No. 003 Series of 2003
authorizes the Provincial Government to collect fees
for services rendered by the Laboratory. The ordinance
was passed as a measure for supporting the sustainable
operation of the BEL. The BEL is currently undergoing
accreditation by the Environmental Management Bureau
of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources
(EMB-DENR). The budget (2008) for water and air quality
monitoring in the Province is PhP1.45M. Currently, there
are three full-time chemists in the BEL working on water
quality monitoring.
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