Waste Management Using the 5Rs Techniques

1. Where do you want to live?

2. Nobody wants to live in a
world full of wastes.

3. What is waste?
 When a material
can no longer be
used after it has
served its
purpose, it is
considered as
waste.

4. How much waste is produced
in the Philippines every day?

5. 35,000,000 kilos of garbage
or solid waste every day

6. Waste Management
Using the 5Rs Techniques
Reporter:
Duane Garret T. Lerias

7. 5Rs Techniques
 Reduce
 Reuse
 Recycle
 Recover
 Repair

8. Reduce
 Reduce simply
means to lessen
the amount of
trash that will
add to the
environment

9. Ways to reduce trash
 Buy rechargeable
batteries instead
of disposable
batteries

10.  Buy products that
have bigger packs

12. Reuse
 Reuse means to
find other uses
for materials that
are already used

14. Recycle
 Recycle means
creating a new
product out of a
material that
already served
its purpose

15. Paper recycling

19. SCIENCE FACT
Did you know that recycling
two aluminum cans saves
enough energy to power a
television?

20. Recover
 Recovering energy
that comes from
the trash itself
 Incineration
technology – one
way of generating
energy from wastes

21.  It involves producing electricity by
burning garbage in the incinerator.

22.  Recovering wastes also involves
segregation.

23.  The garbage
collected are
segregated in a
Materials
Recovery Facility
(MRF).

24. The collected garbage are
sorted out according to class.

25. Repair
 Repair means to fix slightly broken
things be used again

26. Did you listen?

28. Thanks
for listening!