The document discusses community health problems and proper waste management. It defines different types of waste materials and their sources, and explains proper waste disposal according to environmental guidelines and laws. The recommended approach for solid waste management is to adopt the 3Rs of reducing, reusing, and recycling materials, and refrain from prohibited practices like littering or open burning of waste.
The document discusses community health problems and proper waste management. It defines different types of waste materials and their sources, and explains proper waste disposal according to environmental guidelines and laws. The recommended approach for solid waste management is to adopt the 3Rs of reducing, reusing, and recycling materials, and refrain from prohibited practices like littering or open burning of waste.
The document discusses community health problems and proper waste management. It defines different types of waste materials and their sources, and explains proper waste disposal according to environmental guidelines and laws. The recommended approach for solid waste management is to adopt the 3Rs of reducing, reusing, and recycling materials, and refrain from prohibited practices like littering or open burning of waste.
The document discusses community health problems and proper waste management. It defines different types of waste materials and their sources, and explains proper waste disposal according to environmental guidelines and laws. The recommended approach for solid waste management is to adopt the 3Rs of reducing, reusing, and recycling materials, and refrain from prohibited practices like littering or open burning of waste.
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REVIEW: Answer the following
questions.
•What is community health?
•What are the characteristics of a healthy community? How does your community manage waste? Community health problems are common nowadays with the rise of modern technology; people neglect the importance of the basic need for safety. A safe environment will ensure quality of life that will lead to more productive citizen of the country. This lesson will help you understand that one environment is threatened by human activities and that you have a role in wiping out community health problems. • Different perennial problems happen to the different regions of the country. They vary according to factors like: economy, politics, geography, culture and social context. • There are places which experience community health problems like: water-borne and communicable diseases armed conflicts natural disasters highly urbanized zones overpopulated areas In this regard, the government has created an office which would be in charge of planning and implementing rules and regulations to address the above mentioned community health problems. One of its programs is that helps lessen the amount of refuse in our country. Let’s take a deeper look at its focus of concern. Definition of terms: • Garbage refers to leftover vegetables, animal, fish and other food materials from the kitchen and establishments. • Rubbish are waste materials such as bottles, broken glass, tin cans, waste papers, discarded porcelain wares, pieces of metal and other wrapping materials. • Dead animals are lifeless dogs, cats, rats, pigs, chicken and other animals which die from diseases or accidents. Definition of terms: • Stable Manure includes animal wastes from barns, stables or the like. • Street Night soil consists of human waste, normally wrapped and thrown into sidewalks and streets. It also includes human waste from the pail system. • Yard Cuttings are those leaves, branches, grass, and other similar materials made during cleaning of gardens and typhoon aftermaths. *Refuse are the dump, food waste or discarded materials. Refuse Materials by kind, composition and sources: KIND COMPOSITION SOURCES Garbage Waste from Households, preparation, restaurants, cooking and serving institutions, of food, market stores, wastes, wastes from markets handling, storage and sale of Produce KIND COMPOSITION SOURCES Rubbish Combustible: paper, Households, cartons, boxes, barrels, restaurants, wood, excelsior, tree institutions, branches, yard trimmings, wood stores, furniture, bedding, Markets dunnage (Same as Non-combustible: garbage) metals, tin cans, metal furniture, dirt, glass, crockery, minerals KIND COMPOSITION SOURCES Ashes Residue from fires used Households, for cooking and heating restaurants, and from on-site institutions, incineration stores, Markets (Same as garbage) Street Sweepings, dirt, leaves, Streets, Refuse catch-basin dirt, contents sidewalks, of litter receptacles alleys, vacant lots KIND COMPOSITION SOURCES Demolition Lumber, pipes, Demolition sites wastes bricks, to be used for masonry, and other new buildings, construction renewal projects, materials expressways from razed buildings and other structures Construction Scrap lumber, pipes, New Wastes other construction construction, materials remodeling KIND COMPOSITION SOURCES Special Hazardous solids and Household, Wastes liquids: explosives, hotels, hospitals, pathological wastes, institutions, radioactive materials, stores, industry batteries Sewage Solids from coarse Sewage treatment screening and from treatment plants, residue grit chambers; septic- septic tanks tank sludge Source: Tan, Galvez, et.al. (2009).The Health Curriculum in Philippine Basic Education. Vol. 2: A Resource Book for Teachers. Quezon City: UNACOM, Social and Human Sciences Committee Waste Disposal is the proper disposal of a discarded or discharged material in accordance with local environmental guidelines or laws. Solid Waste Management refers to the discipline associated with the: control of generation storage collection transfer and transport processing disposal of solid waste The preceding definition of solid waste states in accordance with the best principles of: public health economics engineering conservation aesthetics public attitude According to RA No. 9003, there are many ways to do Solid Waste Management. A highly recommended formula is to adopt the 3Rs of Ecological Waste Management: REDUCE, REUSE, AND RECYCLE. In addition, let us refrain from doing what has been prohibited under the law. These include: Littering, throwing, dumping of waste materials in public places like roads, sidewalks, canals, esteros, parks and establishments Open burning of solid waste; Allowing the collection of non-segregated or unsorted waste; Squatting in open dumps and landfills; Open dumping or burying of biodegradable and non-biodegradable materials in flood-prone areas; Unauthorized removal of recyclable materials intended for collection by authorized persons; Mixing of source-separated recyclable materials with other solid wastes in any vehicle, box, container or receptacle used in solid waste collection or disposal; Manufacture, distribution or use of non-environmentally acceptable packaging materials; Establishment or operation of open dumps; and Importation of consumer products packaged in non-environmentally acceptable materials. Activity 2: Catch and Match DIRECTIONS: From the array of examples of waste inside the box, classify each item to its appropriate group in column A. Write your answer in Column B. Complete the following sentences: 1. I will promote proper disposal of refuse in our household by………… 2. I will promote proper disposal of refuse in our school by…………….. 3. I will promote proper disposal of refuse in our community by………. Answer the following briefly on your notebook. 1. How does healthy environment positively impact the health of people and communities? 2. What is the effect of improper waste disposal to the people in your community? In our country? In the world?