The garbage pick-up schedule for
Quirino Hill is on Mondays, starting from 3:00 AM until afternoon. At tapaw area of the hill (hill top), collecting of garbage would start from 3:00 AM to 5:00 AM, and the schedule for the lower areas of the hill would be from 6:00 AM to 12:00 PM or early afternoon. Residents of these locations should bring their garbage to the designated garbage collection areas just before the garbage truck arrives. Your garbage
that were brought out after the truck finished hauling and left the area should be brought back inside your
houses, and bring them out again on the next schedule.
Wastes should be segregated
according to their classifications. The wastes separation should be done by
putting each kind of wastes into a separate bags or containers. The different
kinds of garbage are: recyclables, residuals, non-biodegradable and
biodegradable.
RECYCLABLES – Wastes that are
being capable to be used again in the same or different purpose. Let these
materials be recovered and be used again.
1. Glass
containers
2. Newspaper
3. Corrugated
cardboard
4. Mixed
paper
5. Paperboard
6. Steel
cans
7. Aluminum
8. Copper
wire
9. Polyethylene
(PET, HDPE, LDPE)
10. Vinyl (PVC)
11. PP
(Polypropylene)
12. PS
(Polystyrene)
13. Other
plastics
14. Steel
packaging
15. Liquidpaperboard
16. ABS (Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene)
17. Batteries
RESIDUALS – Wastes that has been
left after the other parts were used or consumed.
1. Napkins/Nappies/Used
cotton
2. Chemicals
3. Food
paper wrapper
4. Other
food wrappers
NON-BIODEGRADABLE – Wastes that
do not deteriorate or do not undergo decomposition.
1. Fiber
glass
2. Hazardous
– paint, fluorescent lights, batteries
3. Metallic
other
4. Asphalt/road
construction
5. Asbestos
6. Soil/Inert/Rubble
7. Unusable
food plastic wrappers
8. Textiles/Clothing/Footwear/Carpet
9. Polyurethane
BIODEGRADABLE – Wastes that are
capable of decomposing. The waste will break down into small pieces that can be
absorbed by microorganisms and transformed into CO2, H2O, energy and neutral
residues.
1. Disposable/Contaminated/Wet
paper
2. Food/Kitchen
wastes
3. Garden/Vegetation
4. Wood/Timber
5. Compostables