PEOPLE AND EARTH’S ECOSYSTEM
LESSON 12: PHILIPPINE ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS
QUIÑOLA, JHASMINE P. – BSABE 1-A
PHILIPPINE ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS 3. RA 9275 PHILIPPINE CLEAN WATER ACT
RA 9512 or the Environmental Awareness OF 2004
and Education Act of 2008 The Water Problems, Threats & Issues in the
Presidential Decree No. 1586 or the Philippines
Environmental Impact Statement System Pollution discharges
RA 9275 or the Philippine Clean Water Agricultural wastewaters
Act of 2004 Domestic sewage
RA 8749 or the Philippine Clean Air Act of Industrial effluents
1999 Ship-based residuals
RA 9003 or the Ecological Solid Waste Floating garbage
Management Act of 2000 Toxic chemicals/hazardous wastes
RA 6969 or the Toxic Substances and Philippine Water Realities
Hazardous and Nuclear Waste Control 58% of wells tested by EMB-DENR were
Act of 1990 contaminated with coliform.
1. RA 9512 OR THE ENVIRONMENTAL 50 rivers are considered biologically
AWARENESS AND EDUCATION ACT OF 2008 dead.
An act to promote environmental Main contributors of organic water
awareness through environmental pollutants are:
education and for other purposes domestic (50%)
Environmental education (EE) agricultural (>35%)
refers to organized efforts to teach industrial (15%) wastewaters.
about how natural environments SALIENT FEATURES OF THE CLEAN WATER
function and, particularly, how ACT OF 2004
human beings can manage their Philippine Clean Water Act of 2004
behavior and ecosystem in order (R.A.9275)
to live sustainably aims to protect the country’s water
Focus of EE bodies from pollution from land-
Awareness and sensitivity about based sources (industries and
the environment and commercial establishments,
environmental challenges agriculture and
Knowledge and understanding community/household activities).
about the environment and HOW WILL WATER QUALITY BE MANAGED?
environmental challenges Management of water quality will be
Attitude concern for the based on:
environment and help to maintain watershed
environmental quality river basin
Skills to mitigate the water resources region
environmental problems Management will be localized
Participation for exercising Multisectoral governing boards will be
existing knowledge and established to manage water quality
environmental related programs issues within their jurisdiction.
2. PRESIDENTIAL DECREE NO. 1586 WHAT ARE THE PROHIBITED ACTS IN CWA?
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT Depositing material of any kind which
SYSTEM could cause water pollution
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT example: medical waste
(EIA) Discharging, injecting or allowing to seep
The process of predicting the likely into the earth any substance that would
environmental consequences of pollute groundwater
implementing a project and designing example: toxic/hazardous
appropriate preventive mitigating and substances
enhancement measures Operating facilities that discharge
regulated water pollutants without the
PEOPLE AND EARTH’S ECOSYSTEM
LESSON 12: PHILIPPINE ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS
QUIÑOLA, JHASMINE P. – BSABE 1-A
valid required permits or after the permit burning of garbage dust from
was revoked for any violation construction, and unpaved
PROHIBITED ACTS ground.
Refusal to allow entry, inspection, and 5. RA 9003 ECOLOGICAL SOLID WASTE
monitoring as well as access to reports MANAGEMENT ACT OF 2000
and records by the DENR in accordance ECOLOGICAL SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT
with the CWA. Refers to the systematic activities which
Refusal or failure to submit reports to the provides for:
DENR in accordance with the CWA. Segregation at source
Directly using booster pumps in the Segregated transport
distribution system or tampering with the Storage
water supply in such a way to alter or Transfer
impair the water quality. Processing
4. RA 8749 PHILIPPINE CLEAN AIR ACT OF Treatment and disposal
1999 and all other waste management
This law formulates a holistic national which do not harm the
program of air pollution management that environment
shall be implemented by the government. CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK OF RA 9003
It focuses primarily on pollution
prevention rather than on control and
provide for a comprehensive
management program for air pollution
CLASSIFICATION OF POLLUTION SOURCES
1. STATIONARY SOURCE
any building or immobile structure, facility
or installation which emits or may emit
any air pollutant
examples are:
industrial firms
smoke stacks of power plants,
hotels and other establishments
2. MOBILE SOURCE
any vehicle/machine propelled by or
through oxidation or reduction reactions
including combustion of carbon-based or
other fuel, that emit air pollutants as a
reaction product.
examples are:
cars
trucks
vans
buses
jeepneys
tricycles
motorcycles
3. AREA SOURCE
relatively large areas of specific activities
that generate significant amounts of air
pollutants
examples are:
smoking
PEOPLE AND EARTH’S ECOSYSTEM
LESSON 12: PHILIPPINE ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS
QUIÑOLA, JHASMINE P. – BSABE 1-A
RA 9003 PROHIBITS OPEN BURNING
OF SOLID WASTES
PROHIBITED ACTS, FINES AND PENALTIES
WHAT ARE THE IMPACTS OF IMPROPER
WASTE MANAGEMENT
Pollution of air and water
Contamination of rivers and lakes
Methane (emission from decaying
garbage)
causes global warming (21X more
potent than carbon dioxide).
PEOPLE AND EARTH’S ECOSYSTEM
LESSON 12: PHILIPPINE ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS
QUIÑOLA, JHASMINE P. – BSABE 1-A
1. GHG EMISSIONS FROM THE WASTE
SECTOR
The Philippines has not been spared of
the weather-related disturbances and
disasters.
The past typhoons have been unusually
heavy and have brought devastation to
our country and our people
2. DISEASES
Rats, cockroaches, and flies
typhoid fever
meningitis
diarrhea
tuberculosis
anthrax,
worms
typhoid fever
dysentery
jaundice
Mosquitoes
Malaria
yellow fever
dengue
3. FLOODING
Clogging of the drainage system
Siltation of rivers and creeks
4. UNPLEASANT SURROUNDINGS
Foul odor
Loss of tourism potentials
IDENTIFICATION OF HAZARDOUS WASTES:
6. TOXIC SUBSTANCES AND HAZARDOUS
WHEN IS A WASTE HAZARDOUS?
AND NUCLEAR WASTES CONTROL ACT OF
1990 Hazardous Waste refer to:
OBJECTIVES OF RA 6969 by-products
side products
To protect the public and the environment
process residues
from the risk or potential dangers in the
spent reaction media
use or exposure to chemicals from long
contaminated plant or equipment
term damage brought about by careless
other substances from
handling or disposal of hazardous wastes
manufacturing operations
To regulate the use, movement and consumer discards or
disposal of chemicals, hazardous and manufactured products which
nuclear wastes in the Philippines
present unreasonable risk and/or
injury to health and safety to the
environment.
CHARACTERISTICS OF HAZARDOUS WASTE
1. TOXICITY
poisonous (acute)
carcinogenic, teratogenic, or
mutagenic effect on human
and other organisms (chronic)
Substance is threat to water supplies
TCLP – Toxicity Characteristics Leaching
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2. IGNITABILITY
can create fire under certain
conditions
friction sensitive substances
like solvents
Causes or enhances fire
Some of the Hazardous Waste with this
characteristic have good heating value
and could be utilized as an alternative
fuel, while others are
3. CORROSIVITY
acidic or basic capable of
corroding metals
by chemical action, can
cause severe damage when
in contact with living tissue
4. REACTIVITY
unstable under normal conditions and
readily undergo violent changes without
detonating
reacts violently with water and create
spontaneously explosive mixtures of toxic
gases, vapors, and fumes capable of
detonating (explosion)
