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 |
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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 |
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Source |
Type of |
Volume of solid waste |
Volume of Solid waste |
Disposal methods |
Disposal |
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Domestic |
Biodegradable, non-biodegradable,recyclable, special/hazardous |
24.50 tons |
4.2 tons |
thru hauling of garbage compactor truck |
Controlled dumping site |
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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 |
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Hospital |
Biodegradable, non-biodegradable,recyclable, special/hazardous |
.20 tons |
.14 tons |
thru hauling of garbage compactor truck/hospital pit |
controlled dumping site/hospital pit |
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Institutional |
Biodegradable, non-biodegradable,recyclable, special/hazardous |
2.04 tons |
.35 tons |
thru hauling of garbage compactor truck |
Controlled dumping site |
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Others |
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Source: MENRO |