S E N A T E  
S.B. No. - 
933 
Introduced by Senator JINGGOY E JERCITO ESTRADA 
EXPLANATORY NOTE 
All local government un$s have to dispose of d i d  waste. The problems of 
collection and disposal are magnified in highly-urbanized areas, like Metro Manila 
because disposal and what to lo with the solid waste include not only those of urban 
households, but also industrial and hospital wastes. 
Disposal may be made through sanitary landfills. Some make use of incineration. 
Other, areas in the world "treat" solid waste and dispose of the semi-liquified treated or 
screened sewage and virtually dump these into surrounding water sources and bodies of 
water, whether inland or in areas or oceans. 
Unfortunately, collection arid disposal of solid wastes lead to still another problem 
of pollution either of the land itself where the wastes are dumped and compacted or piled 
or to rivers, creeks, lakes and bays where the valuable water nkeded for human ail 
economic use might be polluted. 
At any rate all provinces and independent cities need to provide for an integrated 
waste collection and disposal system as an integral part of their basic services. This 
service must be anticipated and provided for before the landfill becomes intolerable and 
not only an eyesore, a serious health hazard and an environmental problem involving air, 
water and soil. 
With this in view, this measure seeks to amend the Local Government Code, R.A. 
7160 to include integrated solid waste collection and disposal as a basic service and 
empower the local government sanggunias to provide for the basic service. It is also 
intend. to alert the people to advocate provision of this service within the local 
government units where they live and to quicken the interest 
of local government legislators to plan and implement their respective systems for waste 
collection and disposal such that' any eventually within the local government which will 
affect the amount of solid waste1 to be collected and disposed, such as a new housing 
community to be built or a new'hdustrial site to be established, will Include in the 
perspective of its planning and implementation this important aspect of modern life. 
Approval of this measure is an integral part of local autonomy and the well-being of om 
people, now and in the future. 
With the approval of this measure the total, holistic network for nation-wide integrated 
solid waste collection and disposal shall be complete. 


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The applicable provisions of the Lbcal Government Code of 1991, R.A. 7160 for said 
total, holistic network are: 
AS A BASIC SERVICE AND FACILITY 
SECTION 17 
Local Government Unit, 
Provision of the Code 
(1) For a Barangay .......................... 
Sec. 17, (b) (1) (111) 
(2) For a Municipality ........................ 
Sec. 17, (b) (2) (vi) 
As proposed 'to be amended 
(3) For a Province ....... .I.. ................... 
Sec. 17, (b) (3) As proposed 
to be amended with the 
addition of paragraph (xiii) 
(4) For a City .................................. 
Sec. 17 (b) (4) 
All the services and faci- 
lities of the municipality 
and provinces are also basic 
services and facilities for a city. 
AS A POWER TO APPROVE ORDINANCES OF LOCAL, GOVERNMENT 
SANGGUNLANS : 
Local Government S anamnians 
Provision of the Code 
(1) The Sanggunian Barangay .. .,. ..................... 
Sec. 391 (23) 
(2) The Sanggunian Bayan .............................. 
Sec. 447 (a) (5) (xiii) 
(3) The.Sanggunian Panlungsod ......................... 
Sec. 458 (a) (5) (xiii) 
(4) The Sanggunian Panlalawigan.. .................... 
Sec. 468 (a) (4) (1 1) 
As proposed to be amended 
To the end that the health, well being and safety of our people be achieved 
through the provision of the basic service of an integrated solid waste collection and 
disposal, approval of this proposed.,measure is urgent, necessary and for the general 
welfare. 
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First Regular Session 
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Introduced by Senator JINGGOY EJERCITO ESTRADA 
AN ACT 
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TO INSTITUTIONALIZE THE BASIC SERVICE OF INTEGRATED SOLID WASTE 
COLLECTION AND DISPOSW IN ALL LOCAL GOVERNMENT UNITS, 
AMNEDING FOR THAT PURPOSE THE "'LOCAL, GOVERNMENT CODE OF 199 1, 
"REPUBLIC ACT NO. 7160, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES 
Be it enacted by the Senate and Hobse of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress 
assembled: 
SECTION 1. Title. - This Act shall be known as the "Integrated Solid Waste 
Collectiod and Disposal Act." 
SEC. 2. Declaration of Policy. - It is hereby declared to be the policy of the State 
that local government units shall qndeavor to be self-reliant and to exercise powers and 
discharge such functions and responsibilities as are necessary, appropriate and integrated 
in planning and implementation to provide efficient effective aqd economical basic 
services and facilities. Towards the achievement of this policy, there is hereby 
institutionalized as a basic service of all local goveinment units that of integrated solid 
waste collection and disposal. 
SEC. 3. Integrated Solid Waste Collection and Disposal as a Basic Service of 
Local Government Units. - Se,ction 17 of Republic Act No. 7160, the Local Government 
Code of 1991. Subsections (b) Paragraphs (2) (vi) and (3) are hereby amended, as 
follows: 
"Sec. 17. Basic Services and Facilities. - a) xxxxxxxxxx 
" ( b ) Such basic services and facilities include, but are not limited to, 
the following: 
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For a Municipality: 
INTEGRATED solid COLLECTION AND disposal system or 
environmental management system and services or facilities related 
to general hygiene and sanitation 
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For a Province: 
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“(xiii ) INTEGRATED 
SOLID 
WASTE 
COLLECTION 
AND 
DISPOSAL 
SYSTEM OR ENVIRONMENT MANAGEMENT 
SYSTEM AND SERVICES OR FACILITIES RELATED TO 
GENERAL HYGIENE AND SANITATION;” 
SEC. 4. Integrated Solid Waste Collection and Disposal as a Power of the 
Sanggunian Panlalawigan. - Section 468 of Republic Act No. 7160, the Local 
Government Code of 1991, Subsection ( 4 ) ( ii ) is hereby amended as follows: 
“SEC. 468. Powers, Duties, Functions and Compensation.- 
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xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; 
Approve ordinances which shall ensure the efficient and effective 
deliveryof the basic services and facilities as provided for under 
Section 17 of this Code, and, in addition to said services and 
facilities, shall: 
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Subject to. applicable laws, facilitate or provide for the 
establishment and maintenance of a waterworks system or district 
waterworlts for supplying water to inhabitant6 of component cities 
and municipalities; AND COORDINATE BASIC SERVICES OF 
COMPONqNT CITES AND MUNICIPALITIES FOR THE 
INTEGRATED 
SOLID 
WASTE 
COLLECTION 
AND 
DISPOSAL AND, WHEN NECESSARY, FACILITATE OR 
PROVIDE FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF SAID BASIC 
SERVICE AND FACILITY IN A COMPONENT UNIT; 
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SEC. 5. Repealing Clause. - All laws, decrees, charters, executive orders, 
rules and regulations, or part or parts thereof which are inconsistent with this Act 
are hereby repealed or modified accordingly. 
SEC. 6. Separability Clause. - If ahy part or provisions of this Act shall be 
held to be unconstitutional or invalid, other provisions thereo,f not affected thereby 
shall continue to be in fbll. force effect. 
SEC. 7. E’ectivity!Clause. - This Act shall take effect upon its publication 
in at least two (2) national newspapers of general circulation. 
Approved, 
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