At present, the municipality has a Municipal Dumping site located at Barangay Maningcol. With a total land area of 3.7 hectares, the 1.7 hectares is reserved for the construction of Sanitary Landfill. The remaining 2 hectares can accommodate 8 tons of wastes everyday.

A rehabilitation once every year is needed to accommodate the continues dumping of wastes. The Controlled Dump site will be closed and rehabilitation plan will be prepared based on DAO series of 2006 or authority to close (ATC) to be issued by EMB Regional Office. Pinamalayan have three garbage compactor trucks for garbage collection. Garbage collection is done on a daily basis even on Sundays and holidays. The compactor trucks, on each trip, usually haul about one to two tons of garbage. On an ordinary day, it would complete two to three trips thereby collecting some 7 tons. The one tonner truck hauls at least three trips on a daily basis while the other truck hauls two trips daily.

 

Garbage Compactor Trucks

Based on the data gathered from 2014 CBMS(table 48),only 6,406 households of the 15 barangays were covered by garbage collection. Still a large number of households practices burning of garbage and at the same time throwing garbage in the riverbanks.Generally, wastes came from the five major sources: domestic, commercial, industrial, hospital and institutional. The largest volume of solid waste generated came from domestic sources estimated at 24.50 tons per day (see table 49).

 

Table 48. Solid Waste Disposal Method, Year 2014
Type of Solid Waste Disposal	No. of Household	Percentage (%)
Garbage collected	6,406	33.23
Garbage burned	12,589	65.31
Garbage composted	687	3.56
Garbage recycled	559	2.90
Garbage segregated	718	3.72
Garbage dumped to closed pit	684	3.55
Garbage dumped to open pit	730	3.79
Other waste management	33	0.17

_{Source: 2014 CBMS 2nd Round Survey}

 

Table 49.  Solid Waste Generation by Source, Year 2014
Source	Type of Waste	Volume of solid waste generated (tons/day)	Volume of Solid waste collected (tons/day)	Disposal methods	Disposal site
Domestic	Biodegradable, non-biodegradable,recyclable, special/hazardous	24.50 tons	4.2 tons	thru hauling of garbage compactor truck	Controlled dumping site
Commercial	Biodegradable, non-biodegradable,recyclable, special/hazardous	7.35 tons	2.1 tons	thru hauling of garbage compactor truck	Controlled dumping site
Industrial	Biodegradable, non-biodegradable,recyclable, special/hazardous	.61 tons	.21 tons	thru hauling of garbage compactor truck	Controlled dumping site
Hospital	Biodegradable, non-biodegradable,recyclable, special/hazardous	.20 tons	.14 tons	thru hauling of garbage compactor truck/hospital pit	controlled dumping site/hospital pit
Institutional	Biodegradable, non-biodegradable,recyclable, special/hazardous	2.04 tons	.35 tons	thru hauling of garbage compactor truck	Controlled dumping site
Others
Source: MENRO