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Characteristics Minimum Maximum Mean (PhP) Mean (USD)
(average) P53.15=1 USD
Total 0 101 3
Monthly Gross Income, pesos 5,000 55,000 8,333 157
Monthly electric bill, pesos 0 30,000 1,181 22
Monthly water bill, pesos 0 8000 225 4
Monthly telephone bill, pesos 0 11,902 443 8
Expenditures for SWM per month,
pesos
Distance of Establishment from
10 12,000 383 7
main road, meters
Floor area of stall or building of
0
400
25
business establishment, sq. m
Land area of business
establishment, sq.m.
46
1.25 5,307
25
1.25 100,000 871
Ninety-six (96) percent of the respondents considered their business establishment as a small or
medium-sized enterprise.
75.3 percent of the respondents said that they are the sole decision-makers on expenditures of their
business establishments.
59.3 percent of the business establishments own the land they are occupying.
70.7 percent of them own the stall or building that their business establishment is occupying.
ENDNOTES
i
The Barangay is the smallest political unit in the Philippines. An elected barangay captain (or village
chief) heads it.
ii The Barangay may impose fees for collection and segregation of biodegradable, compostable and
reusable wastes from households, commerce, other sources of domestic wastes, and for the use of
Barangay Material Recovery Facility (MRF). The respective SWM boards shall establish the
computation of the fees. The manner of collection of the fees shall be dependent on the style of
administration of respective Barangay Councils. The municipal and city councils may impose fees on the
barangay MRFs for the collection and transport of non-recyclable and special wastes and for the disposal
of these into the sanitary landfill. The level and procedure for exacting fees shall be defined by the Local
SWM Board/Local SWM Cluster Board and supported by LGU ordinances. Payments shall be consistent
with the accounting system of government, i.e., the Commission on Audit rules.
iii To support the devolution (political decentralization) of basic services from the national government to
the LGUs and to minimize the need for aids and subsidies, RA 7160 institutionalized the sharing of
national taxes among all government units from the national level to the smallest political subdivision.
Known as the Internal Revenue Allotment (IRA) system, this calls for the automatic distribution of
practically all national taxes based on a sharing formula among all government units. Financing SWM, as
a devolved function, falls under the IRA, although this is not explicitly stated in RA 7160, according to
the 1996 Feasibility Study for integrated SWM in BLIST, 1997.
iv 1 USD = PhP 53.15 (March 11, 2005)
v Philex Mining Corporation, in Tuba is responsible for the collection and disposal of the solid wastes
only of its host barangay, Camp 3 (comprise 31 percent of the total households in Tuba).