Waste Management

In the Philippines the way they dispose of wastes are by:

• Municipal solid waste (MSW)
• Industrial waste
• Hazardous waste
• Healthcare waste
• E-waste
• Waste plastics
• Organic waste
• Waste agricultural biomass (WAB)

The Philippines do not use landfills but instead they use the trash and try to generate that into energy windfall. Some villages in the Philippines have laws where they must  construct a recycling center, separate garbage, create a village composting system, and collect different types of waste separately. Open burning and uncontrolled dump sites are not allowed and are illegal.

I think that the Philippines have a very good idea and technique of transforming garbage and wastes into energy however, I think that in order to improve they should find a more tidier way to make this transformation as for we see in the picture above it looks like a landfill almost and very messy.

Climate Change in the Philippines

The Philippines will always be one of the most vulnerable countries to impact climate change because of it’s limited resources. Because there are many floods and droughts throughout there are serious negative impacts on the country that will affect more and more as the years go by, and there will be many people having very minimal amounts of water(hydrosphere) to use. The hydrosphere is the most impacted but the biosphere is impacted along with it because without water there will be no crops to grow or water for the people to drink. With over 98 million people and an archipelago of over 7, 100 islands the Philippines is known as the country that will be impacted  the most from climate change.                                              

Climate Change Impacts on the Philippines .

-There is an increase on annual maximum and minimum temperatures by 0.14°C

- There is an increase on landslides and floods

-On average 20 cyclones cross through the Philippines

-Decrease of rice yield

-Sea surfaces temperatures will rise

-the pH levels in the oceans will increase and lead to coral reef death

- Because of the imbalance, shrimps are not able to develop skins, oysters cannot develop shells. Fish larvae may not be able to develop bones.

-Sea levels will rise 4 to 6 meters

-Tropical cyclones to intensify

-Rainfall, river flow and flooding will also increase

Here

is a picture of the different parts of the Philippines that will be impacted with climate change like landslides, erosion's, and floods