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PH households generate 40,000 tons of waste daily

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MANILA -- Philippine households generate about 40,000 tons of waste per day, enough to fill up to 100 Olympic-sized swimming pools every single day.Of this volume, 50 percent can be composted, while 25 percent, which are made up of plastics, are recyclable.<figure class="op-interactive"><iframe height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/z5xGvRdtqek?enablejsapi=1" width="560"></iframe></figure><div class="iwantbar">Watch more in <a href="//www.iwantv.com.ph/">iWantv</a> or <a href="//tfc.tv/">TFC.tv</a></div>For Environment Undersecretary Benny Antiporda, the waste is not the problem, but rather, it is the Filipinos&#x27; lack of discipline to segregate and reduce waste.&quot;The real problem is the people. The plastic people. These are the problem of the country and we&#x27;re addressing it; at the same time we&#x27;re trying to come up also with minimizing the use of plastic,&quot; he said.He also noted that because of a lack of information and awareness, most solid wastes are contaminated due to mixing of wastes.&quot;Sad to say without a proper information and awareness of the people, most of our solid waste are contaminated because of the mixed waste and what we&#x27;re trying to push right now is a proper outsourced segregation. So we need to push for more information and education campaign so that people will know how to make this into something useful,&quot; Antiporda added.Multinational company Geocycle is working with the Philippine government to make its waste management more sustainable. It uses state-of-the-art technology to process collected waste from households and convert them into cement.Geocycle&#x27;s project manager Alan Cuyno said achieving a zero-waste future all starts with the community.&quot;It&#x27;s a consolidated effort, everyone should pitch in. First and foremost we already have a law on solid waste management which says segregation at source should be done on a very simple layman&#x27;s term,&quot; he said.&quot;Next should be the discipline of all the households really doing the segregation... I would say the full value chain on the waste management business, each and every step should be addressed properly,&quot; Cuyno added.

Philippine households generate about 40,000 tons of waste per day, a volume that fill up to 100 Olympic-sized swimming pools every single day.

Philippine households generate about 40,000 tons of waste per day, a volume that fill up to 100 Olympic-sized swimming pools every single day.