Recycled Trashcans for Proper Waste Disposal of San Matias National High

School - Senior High School

INTRODUCTION

The Recycled Trashcans for Proper Waste Disposal of San Matias National High

School - Senior High School is a project that focuses on the issue of the School

regarding lacking proper trashcans. Along with the mission in enhancing and providing

Recycled Trashcans for Proper Waste Disposal of San Matias National High School -

SHS. The Project will provide recycled trashcans with help of the Barangay San Matias-

Solid Waste Management (SWM), The Municipal Environment and Natural Resources

Office (MENRO) and Yes-O club OF SMNHS-SHS. For a reason, Yes-O club, MENRO

and Barangay San Matias’ Solid Waste have a similar mission and vision to this project

in maintaining the ordinance and cleanliness of every part of society including

educational institutions.

In Addition, The Municipal Environment and Natural Resources Office is

responsible for managing, conserving, protecting, and maintaining the municipality

territory’s environment and natural resources. For the Municipality of Sto. Tomas, the

MENRO office is responsible for ensuring environmental protection. MENRO creates

plans and strategies for environmental initiatives and programs through the upkeep of

cleanliness and sanitation, management of natural resources, reforestation, and

material recovery of waste products. This Municipal Organization of Sto. Tomas,

Pampanga was established to provide and to focus on environmental issues of Sto.

Tomas, Pampanga. This relates to the permission of 4th class municipalities to

establish the Municipal Environment and Natural Resources Officer Office, which would

be charged to the LGU's supplemental budget.

According to Local Government Code Section 76, "each local government unit

shall design and implement its own organizational structure and staffing pattern, taking

into account its service requirement and financial capability, subject to the minimum

standards and guidelines prescribed by the Civil Service Commission." In this regard,

The CSC released Memorandum Circular No. 19, s. In order to develop the

organizational structures and staffing patterns for LGUS, standards and guidelines were

provided in 1992. In this way, the Municipality or LGUS has the power and right to

design its own organization that cures the community’s problems including

Environmental issues.

Moreover, MENRO already proves its use for the environmental issues of Sto.

Tomas, Pampanga. The organization contributed a policy named Municipal Ordinance

No. 36, Series of 2017 otherwise known as the “Environment Code of Municipality of

Sto. Tomas' ', This Environmental Task force enhances the implementation of territorial

jurisdiction in preserving the culture, right of the people to a balanced ecology and to

promote health and safety. The MENRO has also been promoting Proper Septage

Management Implementation and Solid Waste Diversion partnership w/ Holcim and

RCC since 2010, particularly for those who are part of the volunteers who cleans the

environment which the other volunteer is hostile with. MENRO has been fighting to raise

awareness about environmental problems and mobilizing the public to find solutions and

create a more sustainable nation. After all, The MENRO takes the charge of

managing, conserving, preserving, and protecting the environment and natural

resources of the municipality. The MENRO believes in the importance of social action

will lead to a better environment for all.

Therefore, Local Government Units such as Barangay Officials, Mayors and

MENRO are anticipated to support and fund this project due to a law named Republic

Act No. 9003; Provide technical and other capability building assistance and support to

the LGUs in the development and implementation of local solid waste management

plans and programs. The Local Government can anticipate that the project will secure

the fund and there’s an assurance that this project will be as inexpensive as possible

yet effective to implement the efficiency of Proper Waste Disposal.

Students were attracted to the recycled trash can and its intended usage. The

correct trash management of students was also improved by this product. The students'

resourcefulness served as an eye-opener for them as this study pushed grade 12

students to be innovative in recycling plastic waste (Cristhel N.,2020). The recycling

trash had additional advantages besides benefiting the environment by using less

plastic; it also enhanced student creativity by encouraging them to use recyclable

resources to create new goods. Recycling may enhance the condition of the

environment. by avoiding their disposal in landfills, it lessens the energy and

greenhouse gas emissions produced;when producing new materials. These actions

have a serious detrimental effect on the environment and it fuels climate change.

Recycled Trash Cans for Proper Waste Disposal of SMNHS-SHS will open an

opportunity to the LGUs and Yes-O club in enhancing the Solid Waste Management

and maintaining of the School. This project will help the students in avoiding being in a
situation where the school faces a lot of consequences caused by the improper waste

disposal and inordinance of the waste. Thus, the project will create a trashcan where it’s

low-priced and recycled but effective to resolve the observable problem. The project will

also enhance the discipline and knowledge of the students in what is the importance

and the effect of having a Proper Waste Disposal in every place such as household.

The project will encourage students to consider how their activities affect the

Earth and their future environment by teaching them the value of recycling through Film

Viewing. Learners who learn about recycling in school will most likely make recycling as

their habit, which will help them grow up to be responsible people. This encourages

students to incorporate their recycling strategies into their daily lives. Reduce, reuse,

and recycle are three easy steps that can help students feel responsible for their part in

the environment. For instance, recycling one ton of printing paper can prevent the need

to cut down 24 trees.

The project will be conducted from February 2023 to May 2023. This Program

will focus on providing a solution that contains the design and materials that was

specialized on each kind of trash which are Biodegradable, Recycle, and Non-

Biodegradable for San Matias National High School to utilize.

Overall, Recycled Trash Cans as an Alternative Solution for Proper Waste

Disposal of San Matias National High School-Senior High School is a project where the

School, the Society and the LGUs of San Matias will benefit from. Along with the

usefulness and creative thinking of students, The Recycled Trash Cans as an

Alternative for Proper Waste Disposal of SMNHS-SHS will help the students to enhance
their behavior and perspective to the importance of supervision towards the

environment.

RATIONALE

Recycled Trashcans for Proper Waste Disposal of San Matias National High

School - Senior High School is a project where it prioritizes the cleanliness and

ordinance of the school. It will aim to lead the school into enhancement of

environmental awareness through Film viewing and adding Recycled Trashcans that

were labeled as Biodegradable, Non-Biodegradable and Recycled. recycled trashcans

to implement proper environmental education with the use of recycling and signages.

The project will encourage the students to value and to cherish the importance of the

environment. The Recycled Trashcan project will also stimulate the students to

recognize and think of their actions and decisions toward the environment.

Preparing individuals for now and tomorrow is education's primary goal.

Environmental education has been established to provide the chance to learn the

abilities to comprehend and value not only how landscapes are created, but also how

people interact with them, and the effects of daily physical decisions made by people

(Urbanzka M.,2022). Environmental Education’s purpose is to lead the society or the

world to care for the future generations who value and take care of the environment’s

importance and the environment itself. However, the lack of awareness and knowledge

about the environment can lead to many disadvantages and consequences to society.

People can acquire bad behaviors and negative culture towards the environment that

can induce the fast increase of pollution to the environment. This includes the results of
rapid growth of climate change, and the extinction of animals due to lack of habitat that

was caused by garbage and lack of place to decompose the plastics that can take 20-

500 years (Philippine Information Agency, 2023). In addition, having a lack of

awareness and implementation of education about the environment and its importance

in educational institutions such as schools can also lead to many problems. This can

create issues such as threat to food security, flooding, and poor environmental health

that can affect the student’s health and security. This issue was experienced by the

School of San Matias National High School - Senior High due to its poor

acknowledgement of the staff and students to apply the importance of proper

segregation on waste. Most of the school’s buildings only have 1-2 trash cans that

cause a mixture of waste (Biodegradable, Non-Biodegradable and Recycled ). As a

result, it creates a disturbing factor to the comfortability of the students in the sense of

visual and smell that affects the capability of the educator and learners to full-fill their

role in school. This indicates the lack of recognition of students to environmental

education. Thus, Students are unaware of the pros and cons of proper waste

management.

Segregation is acknowledged as a crucial step in managing medical waste, it is

also noted that there is generally poor waste segregation in educational facilities due to

a lack of knowledge about the health risks associated with school's waste, a lack of

education and training in proper waste management, the absence of waste

management and disposal systems, and a low priority given to the issue (Carnero M.

R.,2020). It indicates the effect of improper waste segregation disposal can become a

public safety issue, improper segregation can have an impact on not only staff members
but also to the students. Additionally, it results in more hazardous garbage being

produced because all combined waste must be treated as hazardous due to the

incorrect mix. This specifies the importance of proper waste disposal to health, safety

and ordinance of the school.

Therefore, This project will aim to innovate a product from the ideas and possible

solutions to the issue of students' awareness that can improve the school’s

environmental health. Recycled Trash Cans are a way of proponents to implement the

much stronger efficiency of environmental care and protection, and to aid the

environmental issue of San Matias National High School-Senior High School that

regards segregation and disposal of waste.

Students' environmental consumption within the institution affects their activities

and awareness of garbage recycling. If a student has a lot of resources at their disposal.

The more waste there is, With school supplies like paper and other writing tools, The

recycling has a lot of opportunity to be and it must be done (Asio J. M. R.,2021). This

indicates the Higher quantity of waste such as papers and bottles, the more opportunity

of creating something new is increasing too. It will also lessen the waste that will be

decomposed. This states the power and importance of recycling to maximizing the

creativeness and harnessing the waste of being created by human beings.

Conducting this project will bring significance to the school, community, funder

and students. It will enhance the school’s cleanliness and ordinance that can lead to

great feedback of the school’s image and reputation. It can also benefit the community

and funder by adopting the project, LGUs such as The Municipal Environment and
Natural Resources Office and Barangay Officials can adopt or even enhance the

student’s project of recycled trash can that can increase the knowledge of its members

that can leads to full-filling their vision and mission towards cleanliness. This can also

improve the community’s environmental health by emphasizing the action, importance

and benefits of recycling to its members. Lastly, It will benefit the students by securing

their food against uncleanliness and bacterias, it can also improve the student’s

discipline and knowledge towards proper waste disposal and recycling that students can

apply to their life and households.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

OBJECTIVES:

The objective of Recycled Trash Cans as an Alternative Solution for recycled

Trash Cans as an Alternative Solution for Proper Waste Disposal of San Matias

National High School - Senior High School is to ensure the ordinance, cleanliness and

strengthens the knowledge for Solid Waste Management inside the campus by

producing three types of trash cans (Biodegradable, Non-Biodegradable and

Recyclable) for Proper Waste Disposal of the School. This project has also an objective

to effectively escalate the uses and importance of these labeled trash cans and the

convenience of recycling.

ACTIVITIES AND STRATEGIES:

Recycled Trashcans for Proper Waste Disposal is a project where the trash such

as bottles and plastics are converted into trashcans to emphasize the sense of creating
something useful with the use of trash. This project will propose to be accompanied with

The Municipal Environment and Natural Resources Office (MENRO), LGU - Barangay

Solid Waste Management, Yes-O club and to the groups of 12 LARIMAR. In order for

proponents to share information that can innovate the product to be more useful to

society.

ACTION PLAN:

STARTI OBJECTIVES ACTIVITIE ASSIGNED OUTCOME

NG S PERSONNE
DAY L
OF
ACTIVI
TY

FEBRU To create a PLANNING GROUP 2 Through this,

ARY 15 product/culmi The proponents
2023 nating activity / made an idea
that cures the BRAINSTO where the
(DAY 1) current issue RMING school’s problem
of SMNHS- on proper waste
SHS segregation
disposal needs
to be solved with
the use of
recycled
trashcans.

MARC To acquire CONDUCTI GROUP 2 Proponents

H 01 the right NG THE ALONG successfully
2023 information to CONCEPT WITH THE acquire the
acquire the PAPER GUIDANCE proper
(DAY 2) proper OF techniques,
strategies SUBJECT information,
and TEACHER strategies and
 techniques. objectives to
solve the stated
issue. Thanks to
the guidance of
the Subject
Teacher.

MARC To make a MAKING GROUP 2 The proponents

H 18 recycled THE WITH THE have
2023 trashcan that PRODUCT COMPANIO accomplished
can N OF YES-O the production of
(DAY 3) strengthen CLUB Recycled
the Trashcans.
importance of
recycling and
proper
segregation
to school.

APRIL To properly DISCUSSI GROUP 2 The proponents

1 2023 discuss and ON OF WITH will be able to
to deal with CULMINATI SCHOOL’S give the needed
(DAY 5) the project on NG ADMINISTR information that
the school’s ACTIVITY ATORS(SIR regards the
staff and FREDDIE stated project.
funder. REGALA
AND MA'AM
MARLENE
GARCIA),
YES-O
CLUB
COORDINAT
OR AND
FUNDERS
(LGU
OFFICIALS;
MENRO
AND
BARANGAY
 OFFICIALS)

APRIL To create a PRODUCTI GROUP 2 Through this

5 2023 video ON process The
presentation project will be
(DAY 7) about how to able to enhance
make a and educate the
recycled senior high
trashcan,what school students.
are the
benefits of it
and to show
environmenta
l education.

MAY 13 To enhance FILM THE Through Film

2023 the VIEWING PROPONEN viewing the
knowledge of DAY AND TS OF THE students will be
(DAY 8) students MEETING PROJECT encouraged to
about OF EVERY ALONG make and to
environmenta PRESIDENT WITH THE provide a
l education. S IN SCHOOL’S recycled
SMNHS-SHS ADMIN trashcan too.
PERMISSIO
N.

PARTICIPANTS AND BENEFICIARIES:

The community, funding source, school, and students will consider this project to

be relevant. It will enhance the school's order and cleanliness, which could lead to

positive feedback regarding the school's reputation and image. Local government units

(LGUs), such as the Municipal Environment and Natural Resources Office and
barangay officials, can fund or even adopt the student project of a recycled trashcan,

which will broaden their members' knowledge and will help them to achieve their goals

for cleanliness. Furthermore, the community and funders may gain from it. This can aid

the community's environmental health by emphasizing to its residents the activity,

importance, and benefits of recycling. It will also benefit students by protecting their food

from germs and pollution. It will also benefit them by enhancing their discipline and

knowledge of correct garbage disposal and recycling that students can gain from it .

This can also be used in their daily lives and to other situations, places, or workplaces in

the future, such as homes and offices.

PRELIMINARY BUDGET:

The Recycled Trashcans for Proper Waste Disposal requires a preliminary

budget from the funder at least P350 for each recycled trashcan. This indicates the low-

priced production of recycled trashcans. Despite its low-price, the product is strong and

will last longer than a regular trash bin.

I. MATERIALS AND TOOLS

MATERIALS QUANTITY UNIT PRICE TOTAL

STEEL BAR 12 MM (2 P95 P190

(RECYCLED) PIECES)

ZIP TIE 1 PACK P30 PER PACK P60

 NILE PAINT 1 PIECE P75 PER PIECE P1

ESTIMATED P295

COST:

EXPECTED OUTCOME

The project has provided proper labeled trashcans which makes the school’s

solid waste segregation much more efficient to the students. The implementation of

recycled trashcans in San Matias National High School is expected to result in a more

sustainable and environmentally friendly solid waste management system. By providing

students and staff with easily accessible recycled bins for biodegradable, non-

biodegradable, and recyclables.

Additionally, the introduction of recycled trashcans is likely to increase

awareness and promote sustainable practices among the school's community. This may

lead to a reduction in littering and other forms of environmental damage, and contribute

to a more positive school culture overall.

Overall, the implementation of recycled trashcans in San Matias National High

School is expected to have a positive impact on the environment, the school

community, and the broader community by reducing waste, promoting sustainable

practices, and setting an example for other schools and organizations to follow.

TIMELINE:

This timeline indicates the starting day and due day of the project. In this way,

The proponents will have an enough time for the project to be accomplished.

Start: February 15 2023

Ended: May 12 2023