RA 9003 Flashcards
RA 9003 is also know as?
Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000
refer to waste generated from planting or harvesting of crops, trimming or pruning of plants and wastes or run-off materials from farms or fields;
Agricultural waste
refer to waste materials which cannot be appropriately
placed in separate containers because of either its bulky size, shape or other physical attributes. These include large worn-out or broken household, commercial, and industrial items such as furniture, lamps, bookcases, filing cabinets, and other similar items;
Bulky wastes
refer to a recycling center that purchases or otherwise accepts recyclable materials from the public for the purpose of recycling such materials;
Buy-back center
refer to the act of removing solid waste from the source or from a communal storage point;
Collection
refer to the controlled decomposition of organic matter by micro-organisms, mainly bacteria and fungi, into a humus-like product;
Composting
refer to special wastes that include worn-out, broken, and other discarded items such as radios, stereos, and TV sets;
Consumer electronics
refer to a disposal site at which solid waste is deposited in accordance with the minimum prescribed standards of site operation
Controlled dump
refer to the discharge, deposit, dumping, spilling, leaking or placing of any solid waste into or in any land;
Disposal
refer to a site where solid waste is finally discharged and deposited;
Disposal site
refer to the systematic administration of activities which provide for segregation at source, segregated transportation, storage, transfer, processing, treatment, and disposal of solid waste and all other waste management activities which do not harm the environment;
Ecological solid waste management
refer to the quality of being re-usable, biodegradable or compostable, recyclable and not toxic or hazardous to the environment;
Environmentally acceptable
refer to the act or process of producing solid waste;
Generation
refer to a person, natural or juridical, who last uses a material and makes it available for disposal or recycling
Generator
refer to solid waste or combination of solid waste which because of its quantity, concentration, or physical, chemical or infectious characteristics may: cause, or significantly contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible, or incapacitating reversible, illness;
Hazardous waste
refer to the liquid produced when waste undergo decomposition, and when water percolate through solid waste undergoing decomposition. It is a contaminated liquid that contains dissolved and
suspended materials;
Leachate
includes a solid waste transfer station or sorting station, drop-off center, a composting facility, and a recycling facility;
Materials recovery facility
refer to wastes produced from activities within local government units which include a combination of domestic, commercial, institutional and industrial wastes and street litters;
Municipal waste
refer to a disposal area wherein the solid wastes are indiscriminately thrown or disposed of without due planning and consideration for environmental and health standards
Open dump
refer to the act of providing a place for collecting source-separated recyclable material, located either at a disposal site or at another location more convenient to the population being served, and collection at least once a month of source-separated recyclable material from collection service customers and to providing a public education and promotion program that gives notice to each person of the opportunity to recycle and encourage source separation of recyclable material;
Opportunity to recycle
refer to any being, natural or juridical, susceptible of rights and obligations, or of being the subject of legal relations;
Person(s)
refer only to those materials or products generated by a business or consumer which have served their intended end use, and which have been separated or diverted from solid waste for the purpose of being collected, processed and used as a raw material in the manufacturing of recycled product, excluding materials and by-products generated from, and commonly used within an original manufacturing process, such as mill scrap;
Post-consumer material
refer to individual containers used for the source separation and the collection of recyclable materials;
Receptacles
refer to material and by-products that have been recovered or diverted from solid waste for the purpose of being collected, processed and used as a raw material in the manufacture of a recycled product;
Recovered material
refer to any waste material retrieved from the waste stream and free from contamination that can still be converted into suitable beneficial use or for other purposes, including, but not limited to, newspaper, ferrous scrap metal, non-ferrous scrap metal, used oil, corrugated cardboard, aluminum, glass, office paper, tin cans and other materials as may be determined by the Commission;
Recyclable material
refer to post-consumer material that has been recycled and returned to the economy;
Recycled material
refer to the treating of used or waste materials through a process of making them suitable for beneficial use and for other purposes, and includes any process by which solid waste materials are transformed into new products in such a manner that the original products may lose their identity, and which may be used as raw materials for the production of other goods or services: Provided, That the collection, segregation and re-use of previously used packaging material shall be deemed recycling under this Act;
Recycling
refer to the reduction of the amount of solid waste that are generated or the reduction of overall resource consumption, and utilization of recovered resources;
Resource conservation
refer to the collection, extraction or recovery of recyclable materials from the waste stream for the purpose of recycling, generating energy or producing a product suitable for beneficial use: Provided, That, such resource recovery facilities exclude incineration;
Resource recovery
refer to the process of recovering materials intended for the same or different purpose without the alteration of physical and chemical
characteristics;
Re-use
refer to a waste disposal site designed, constructed, operated and maintained in a manner that exerts engineering control over significant potential environmental impacts arising from the development and operation of the facility;
Sanitary landfill
refer to an enforceable sequence of actions or operations to be accomplished within a stipulated time frame leading to compliance with a limitation, prohibition, or standard set forth in this Act or any rule or regulation issued pursuant thereto;
Schedule of Compliance
refer to a solid waste management practice of separating different materials found in solid waste in order to promote recycling and reuse of resources and to reduce the volume of waste for collection and disposal;
Segregation
refer to a solid waste management practice of separating, at the point of origin, different materials found in solid waste in order to promote recycling and re-use of resources and to reduce the volume of waste for collection and disposal;
Segregation at source
refer to all discarded household, commercial waste, nonhazardous institutional and industrial waste, street sweepings, construction
debris, agriculture waste, and other non-hazardous/non-toxic solid waste.
Solid waste
refer to the discipline associated with the control of generation, storage, collection, transfer and transport, processing, and disposal of solid wastes in a manner that is in accord with the best principles of public health, economics, engineering, conservation, aesthetics,
and other environmental considerations, and that is also responsive to public attitudes;
Solid waste management
refer to any resource recovery system or component thereof; any system, program, or facility for resource conservation; any facility for the collection, source separation, storage, transportation, transfer, processing, treatment, or disposal of solid waste;
Solid waste management facility
refer to the reduction of solid waste before it enters the solid waste stream by methods such as product design, materials substitution, materials re-use and packaging restrictions;
Source reduction
refer to the sorting of solid waste into some or all of its component parts at the point of generation;
Source separation
refer to household hazardous wastes such as paints,
thinners, household batteries, lead-acid batteries, spray canisters and the like. These include wastes from residential and commercial sources that comprise of bulky wastes, consumer electronics, white goods, yard wastes that are collected separately, batteries, oil, and tires. These wastes are usually handled separately from other residential and commercial wastes
Special wastes
refer to the interim containment of solid waste after generation and prior to collection for ultimate recovery or disposal;
Storage
refer to those facilities utilized to receive solid wastes, temporarily store, separate, convert, or otherwise process the materials in the solid wastes, or to transfer the solid wastes directly from smaller to larger vehicles for transport
Transfer stations
refer to activities which reduce or eliminate the amount of solid wastes from waste disposal facilities;
Waste diversion
refer to large worn-out or broken household, commercial, and industrial appliances such as stoves, refrigerators, dishwaters, and clothes washers and dryers collected separately. White goods are usually dismantled for the recovery of specific materials (e.g., copper, aluminum, etc.).
White goods
refer to wood, small or chipped branches, leaves, grass clippings, garden debris, vegetables residue that is recognizable as part of a plant or vegetable and other materials identified by the Commission.
Yard waste
Who signed RA 9003?
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
