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    Waste inputs: a feasibility study on large scale organic fertilizer production
    (1985-10-11) Atienza, Jose Eric M.; Jorge, Timothy L.
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    Time and motion study of garbage collection
    (1987-03-19) Benetiz, Illuminada L.
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    Creating a market for garbage
    (2003-09) Mercado, Rogelio V. Jr.; Ong, Cathleen
    The Philippines. especially the NCR, has a worsening solid waste problem. Solid wastes are growing at a rate faster than we can dispose it. It is not surprising that a decade from now, Metro Manila will be faced with a major solid waste problem. Because of this, the authors decided to come up with a solid waste licensing and license trading scheme that aims to establish property rights to the landfill where municipalities dispose their wastes and in the process create a market for solid wastes. Through this scheme, the authors hope to encourage waste reduction activities at the municipal level. This license trading program is adapted from the emissions trading program used in Western countries to reduce air pollution. most especially carbon dioxide. The sample data collected by the JICA Study Team and MMDA for solid waste disposal by three municipalities in Metro Manila in 1997 was used to determine whether such program could work. The main goal of this study is to establish property rights to a landfill (in terms of the amount of waste that can be disposed) by considering the absorption capacity for a municipality with respect to a hypothetical landfill and to create a market wherein garbage can be traded through licenses. Revenues from license trading may serve as incentives to municipalities to reduce their wastes. After establishing ·property rights and issuing licenses to dispose wastes, the feasibility of license trading among municipalities was proven. The implication is that if a municipality reduces the waste it generates, it could trade its extra licenses with other municipalities that demand more licenses. This paper proposes that MMDA should implement such license trading scheme to help improve the garbage situation in Metro Manila
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    Solid waste management in the Philippines: socioeconomic factor effects on household waste disposal behavior
    (2010-04) Camaya, Clarissa M.
    A fractional multinomial logistic model is used to estimate the relationships between socioeconomic factors of provincial local government units and its households to the waste disposal and diversion methods that households engage in. Using 2000 Census data, the econometric analysis indicates that LGU taxation as a portion of household income and female proportion to total population have positive significant effects on the use of garbage pickup services. LGU expenditure on the other hand was seen to have positive effects on the likelihood that recommended practices like composting will be used. Surprisingly, discouraged waste disposal methods like burning, dumping, or burying garbage were seen to be more likely when there is higher agricultural employment and hence less urbanity. These findings suggest a shift of proper disposal campaigns, targeting female groups more and the rural population as well Findings also support a policy of per-use or per-bag tax rather than a general tax.