The Bunsocan Family, a resident of Purok 1, Barangay Delusom, is a known public figure in the community. The head of the family is a Barangay Kagawad and head of the Health Committee. The mother is a Barangay Health Worker and a member of the Community Health Team in the barangay. However, they are not really an ideal role model themselves. The Solid Waste Management in the barangay is not strictly implemented. People have only compost pits as their reservoirs for their wastes, both biodegradable and non-biodegradable wastes. Like the rest of the families in the barangay, the Bunsocans did not see their wastes as something to be taken cared of. In one of the interviews done with Nanay Ging-ging about managing their wastes, she shared to us that they don’t usually segregate. The container that they use is a cocktail of waste inside their home, with no cover to protect them from foul odor. Flies and rodents even feast on it. They have their own compose pit, which is the reservoir of all their waste. The pit is mixed with biodegradable and non biodegradable wastes. Open burning is practiced as an easy resort of getting rid of their wastes. The purok house, located just beside their house, is an open dump of wastes. She verbalized that it’s not their fault if the people don’t know how to manage their wastes properly and just throw it in the compost pit even if it is full already. At that time, she was one of the people who were used to live well even with all the improperly disposed garbage in the area.
After a few months of intensive SWM implementation, the head of the family, Mr. Bunsocan, slowly became active again with his responsibilities as the Head of the Health Committee. He facilitated the creation of a barangay ordinance on Solid Waste Management. By their purok house, a waste holding facility was built together with the medical students and support of the Barangay Council. This served as a drop off center of the purok 1’s residual wastes and recyclables. And with the partnership started with Jimboy’s Junkshop in Molave, the recyclable wastes will not end up in the garbage, but in their pockets.
In their home, they already segregated their wastes in two sacks, one for residuals and the other for recyclables. Their biodegradables are disposed into the pits in their backyard. However, when it is already full, they still result to burning it. Nanay Ging-ging expressed that the ashes could still be used as “abono” or fertilizers for her crops. Although it has already been discussed with the people previously that this is not a safe and healthy practice, Nanay Ging-ging still prefers to maintain her ways. But there are still times that they opt to just bury it and make another hole in the ground for disposal of biodegradable wastes.
Nanay Ging-ging participates in the local monthly clean-up drive in the purok houses and individual houses. She finds it tiring at times but she said that she is willing to do it for the service to her people.
She expressed that it weren’t all be possible without the push of the medical students towards a cleaner and healthier environment in the barangay.
After a few months of intensive SWM implementation, the head of the family, Mr. Bunsocan, slowly became active again with his responsibilities as the Head of the Health Committee. He facilitated the creation of a barangay ordinance on Solid Waste Management. By their purok house, a waste holding facility was built together with the medical students and support of the Barangay Council. This served as a drop off center of the purok 1’s residual wastes and recyclables. And with the partnership started with Jimboy’s Junkshop in Molave, the recyclable wastes will not end up in the garbage, but in their pockets.
In their home, they already segregated their wastes in two sacks, one for residuals and the other for recyclables. Their biodegradables are disposed into the pits in their backyard. However, when it is already full, they still result to burning it. Nanay Ging-ging expressed that the ashes could still be used as “abono” or fertilizers for her crops. Although it has already been discussed with the people previously that this is not a safe and healthy practice, Nanay Ging-ging still prefers to maintain her ways. But there are still times that they opt to just bury it and make another hole in the ground for disposal of biodegradable wastes.
Nanay Ging-ging participates in the local monthly clean-up drive in the purok houses and individual houses. She finds it tiring at times but she said that she is willing to do it for the service to her people.
She expressed that it weren’t all be possible without the push of the medical students towards a cleaner and healthier environment in the barangay.