National Committee on Urban Pest Control Training Institute: March 2014

Tuesday, March 18, 2014

RA 9003 Impossible To Implement?

Almost all Local Government Units [LGUs} have difficulties, after 13 years, in implementing the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act or RA 9003; hence their non-compliance.

Republic Act 9003 [Solid Waste Management Act/ Garbage Law]

LGUs, the barangays in particular, can be charged with the Ombudsman for the non-compliance of the garbage law!

Local Government Units in Metro Manila [17 LGUs]

The mayors prefer to have their garbage to be disposed by private haulers and allocate about 50% of their annual budget for garbage hauling.

50% of LGU Annual Budget goes to garbage hauling

All wastes generated at source because of human activities can be recycled, reduced and reused. Only dumb government officials like dumpsites or landfills.

The Ecological Solid Waste Management Act or Republic Act 9003 orders all LGUs to decentralize their garbage collections to their barangays, the smallest units of government. It is the barangays that must teach their residents to do the three Rs [Recycle, Reuse] right in their respective homes or buildings. They must know how to segregate: Collect their trash at source, and separate reusable trashes from residual trashes. The later are the kind of trashes that no one will buy or have any use for. Examples are used baby diapers, damaged textiles, broken ceramics, contaminated paper and very thin plastics. Residual waste is the only kind of garbage that can be brought by city-hired dump trucks to landfills.

The Ecological Solid Waste Management Act or Republic Act 9003 orders all LGUs to decentralize their garbage collections to their barangays, the smallest units of government.

The law requires that each barangay to have a Materials Recovery Facility [MRF] of its own which is key to decentralizing waste management. An MRF is a structure or shed where all the garbage generated by the barangay is sorted into recyclables, organic waste, and non-recyclables or residual waste. Depending on its wastes, the MRF must be equipped with a compactor, a shredder and a wasting area where wastes are first cleansed from organic materials so they won't attract pests like rats, flies and cockroaches which are disease-carriers.

The city or municipality should provide each of the barangay within the city or municipality with funds for the construction of an MRF. But make it sure that the barangay receiving the assistance is really implementing the solid waste management program. It should also distribute pushcarts for the barangay garbage collectors.

In Quezon City, for example, the largest city in Metro Manila and the biggest spender in waste management, but to say, only 40 out of 142 barangays have an MRF, and none of these MRFs are operational.

MMDA General Manager Corazon Jimenez said many LGUs, including those in Metro Manila, have difficulty in implementing RA 9003; and added that it is too costly to implement it . Others have a "different interpretation" of the law. While the barangays help conduct awareness campaigns and segregate the trash in major thoroughfares, all residential garbage is still collected by the city and brought to a landfill.

Call Invr. Gonzalo O. Catan, Jr. at Tel. 02 525-0434 for assistance. Mr. Catan is practitioner in waste management, and the president of the Zero Waste Recycling Movement of the Philippines Foundation, Inc. or Waste Recycling Philippines for assistance. His organization is assisting barangays to be compliant with the law.

Even, the National Committee on Urban Pest Control [NCUPC] has come up with this program: Developing A Program For Waste & Pest Management to assist not only barangays but business establishments as well to segregate their wastes. Call NCUPC at 02 484-0208 for immediate assistance.

http:su.edu.ph?testimonial/13-Roque%20G.%20Tibor%20Jr.

Monday, March 17, 2014

MY FIVE [5] UPLOADED VIDEOS ON YOUTUBE

MY FIVE [5] UPLOADED VIDEOS ON YOUTUBE:

1). http://youtu.be/uYrkM_DsA5o [Urban Cockroaches];
2). http://youtu.be/psxAi-ZP0MI [Barangay Dengue Awareness Program];
3). http://youtu.be/TLBfbKfRJik [PPP Program On Information & Dissemination Campaigns On Dengue Mosquito];
4). http://youtu.be/HT0wNHAAdt4 [Motorcade: Urban Pest Management And Food Safety & Quality System In CDOC]; and
5). http://youtu.be/z1yaYnuxUwg [Conference On Urban Pest Management And Food Safety & Quality Systems].

Please subscribed to any of these educational videos.

Sunday, March 16, 2014

NOTICE OF REGULAR MEETING

NOTICE OF REGULAR MEETING

TO: SHE COMMITTEE MEMBERS

WHAT: SHE MONTHLY MEETING

WHEN: MARCH 19, 2014, WEDNESDAY
9:30 – 12:00 A.M.

WHERE: NCUPC OFFICE

Saturday, March 15, 2014

Adopt A Zero Waste, Zero Pest, And Zero Pollution Lifestyle: Conference & Exhibition

FINAL NOTICE:

Adopt A Zero Waste, Zero Pest, And Zero Pollution Lifestyle:
Conference & Exhibitions

NCUPC shall celebrate the 18th National Urban Pest Control Week on September 22-18, 2014 in Metro Manila per Presidential Proclamation 990 & 2063, And Republic Act 9003 with the readiness for ASEAN 2015.

NCUPC is ready to internationally showcase Proper Waste Management & Pollution Management in establishments in cities and municipalities to effectively manage urban pests.

NCUPC can be reached either through Telefacsimile No.+632 484-0208 or through our E-mail address: ncupc_manila@yahoo.com for inquiries.

Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Supreme Court Decided On Urban Pest Control Jurisdiction; Consultative Workshop On Drafting Sanitation Code [856] Vermin Control Implementation Rules & Regulations [IRR]; & Important Notice To The PublicI

Supreme Court Decided On Urban Pest Control Jurisdiction

Consultative Workshop On Drafting Sanitation Code [856] Vermin Control Implementation Rules & Regulations [IRR] but rendered Illegal By The 2007 Supreme Court Decision

Important Notice To The Public

Urban Cockroaches

Urban cockroaches are medically important pests in facilities and premises of food establishments, buildings and structures in urban areas in the Philippines. Their presence may cause contamination of raw materials and finished products. It describes the biology, characteristics and biology of urban cockroaches. It also includes the prevention and control of urban cockroaches.

http://youtu.be/uYrkM_DsA5o

This is part of the licensing and certification program for Urban Pest Management Designed for Pest Control Operators [PCOs] and Certified Pesticide Applicators [CPA] of the National Committee on Urban Pest Control [NCUPC].

Pesticide Safety Seminar Course

Pesticide Safety is an 8-hour course that is offered by the National Committee on Urban Pest Control [NCUPC] for licensed Pest Control Operators [PCOs] and Certified Pesticide Applicators [CPAs] which is in accordance to the Occupation, Health & Safety [OSH] requirements of the Bureau of Working Conditions of Department of Labor & Employment [DOLE], Basic Chemical/ Pesticide Safety requirement of city health offices of local government units, and Health Circular 155 S-1975 of the Department of Health [DOH].

Pesticide Safety Seminar Course

NCUPC, a PRC accredited [Accreditation No. 2012-003] Continuing Professional Education [CPE] Provider, is the SHE [Safety, Health & Environment] Coordinator of licensed PCOs and CPAs.

Course Objectives:

1. The course intends to update participants on household pesticides, their proper handling [mixing and applying; and handling of equipment], minimize exposures, their toxicity, and their proper storage and disposal.

2. It also tackles on how to report poisoning incidence/s using the proper reporting procedure.

Date: March 19, 2015; 1:00 - 5:00 P.M.

Venue: 2461 Arellano Avenue, Malate, 1004 Manila, Philippines

PPP Program On The Information-Dissemination Campaigns On Dengue Mosquitoes

TO: ALL BARANGAYS

RE: PPP Program On The Information-Dissemination Campaigns On Dengue Mosquitoes

This Public-Private Partnership Program on the information-dissemination campaigns on the Prevention & Control Of Dengue Mosquitoes through seminar-demonstration in your barangay per Health Circular 155 as strengthened by Presidential Proclamation 990 and expanded further by Presidential Proclamation 2063; DILG Memorandum Circular 2003-186 [Environmental Pest Abatement Maintenance Program]; Presidential Decree 856 [Sanitation Code] and 1086 [Building Code], Republic Act 7459 [Inventors & Invention Incentive Act] and 9003 [New Solid Waste Management Act]; and Presidential Proclamation 1204 [Dengue Awareness Month].

We successfully did this kind of partnership between the Rotary International, DOH, MAPECON Philippines, Inc. and NCUPC with barangays in Metro Manila through the Rotary Foundation Grant No. 97-6 in 1998 and in 2003. And we want to undertake the same but more intensive and participative activity through your constituents [SK/ other youth organizations, mother club, etc.] as participants so that these mosquito-borne diseases will, once and for all, be eliminated.

The general objective of this one-hour activity is to provide your constituents with the basic information on mosquitoes and skills on how to prevent and control them with the end in view of mobilizing them to get actively involved in the Operation Kiti-kiti [OK] and Kontra Kiti-kiti [KKK] in their respective areas in community as volunteers. There will be demonstration on how to prepare ovi-traps and adult for mosquitoes. As partners, your barangay shall provide the venue for the seminar that could accommodate your constituent-participants, a sound system, and a white screen; and the NCUPC and MAPECON, aside from coming out with this program, shall provide the LCD, certificates of participation, speakers, and shall act as the seminar secretariat. Attached please find the Proposed Program and pertinent documents for your information.

For inquiries, call us at Tel. No. 02 484-0208 or send it through our e-mail: ncupc_manila@yahoo.com.

http://youtu.be/TLBfbKfRJik

Activated Carbon Fine [Black Beauty]: Natural Toxin Antidote & Detoxifying Agent

Activated Carbon Fine [Black Beauty]: Natural Toxin Antidote & Detoxifying Agent

Activated carbon fine or food grade has been used as a toxin antidote and detoxifying agent that goes back centuries.

Today, activated carbon fine is practically in all hospital ERs and many emergency vehicles as a fast, effective antidote for toxins or poisons, including pharmaceutical toxins, of all types. It is considered safe and effective by the US FDA, and it’s inexpensive. Very few know of this amazing natural antidote, and even less know of its general detoxifying capacity.

Don’t confuse activated carbon fine with charcoal briquettes for barbecuing or anything else. Those contain toxic chemicals and carcinogens. Using the powder form of activated carbon is recommended. It’s easy to ingest as a fine powder in water. It’s tasteless, though a tad gritty.

It is derived from subjecting pure, untainted organic substances such as coconuts or certain woods through thermal activation without using chemicals in the process.

Dr. Al Sears, MD, has his patients use it for detoxifying even heavy metals, and he uses it himself. For heavy metal detoxifying, he recommends a total of 20 grams per day, spaced apart in two to four doses, over a 12 day period. I prefer taking a heaping tablespoon once in the morning, well before breakfast for general detoxification.

The fine powder is placed into 6-8 ounces of pure un-fluoridated water in a jar. Let it settle for a moment, then cap the jar, shake well, then drink it quickly. Again, there’s no weird taste, just a slightly gritty texture.

The activated carbon fine particles are extremely fine, so a small amount covers a lot of territory: …one gram of it – an amount the size of your fingernail – can adsorb enough toxins to fill the square footage of four tennis courts.

The action of activated carbon fine involves adsorption [not absorption] of toxins. Adsorption is the electrical attraction of toxins and heavy metals, but not beneficial nutrients, to the surfaces of the fine carbon particles. This is more of a chelation process. The carbon itself is not absorbed into the body, so the toxins attached to the carbon particles exit via the bowels. Don’t be surprised by black stools.

Black Beauty Activated Carbon Fine

Wellness Products

Dispelling Rumors

A controversy on ingesting activated carbon is based on the notion that it also robs the body of nutrients. According to several solid sources, this is misinformation.

Pharmaceutical medicines, which tend to be toxic, are removed wholly, and nutrients from synthetic vitamin sources tend to be removed also. But food and herbal sourced nutrients are left alone. However, it’s actually better to take the activated carbon 1-2 hours away from food because food hampers the charcoal’s detox activity. This has been proven with animal testing.

From the 1980 book Activated Carbon by David O. Cooney: “Carbon added to the diet of sheep for six months did not cause a loss of nutrients, as compared with sheep not receiving charcoal. … A level of 5 % of the total diet was given as carbon. It did not affect the blood or urinary levels of calcium, copper, iron, magnesium, inorganic phosphorus, potassium, sodium, zinc, creatinine, uric acid, urea nitrogen, alkaline phosphatase, total protein or urine pH.” However, it’s actually better to take the activated carbon 1-2 hours away from food or milk because those hamper the carbon’s detox activity.

Another rumor is activated carbon causes constipation. This is could be true if you’re already blocked a bit, but it doesn’t cause it. As with any type of detox, one needs to be free of blockages to eliminate easily.

A simple purge before eating anything can clear the way. Two ounces of grapefruit or orange juice mixed thoroughly with two ounces of pure Castor oil is what I use before starting a 10 day run of daily carbon consumption. Then I skip breakfast and eat lightly for the rest of that day.

The carbon drinks begin after that one day of purging, a day when you should stick around and not venture out much. Drink a little more fluoride free water than usual as you eat normally for the week to ten day period (or more) of daily early morning carbon drinks. Black diarrhea can occur as a temporary detox side effect.

Keep It Around

Activated carbon is cheap and easy to use often as an antidote for our toxic world. But even if you’re not keen on using activated carbon for general or heavy metal detox purposes, it would be wise to have it on hand in a sealed glass (not plastic) jar for those accidental sips or bites of poisonous substances and venomous insect and snake bites.

I don’t like using activated carbon capsules, although they can be found in health food stores easily. There’s not enough bang for the buck for an extended detox period. But they’ll be handy for emergencies.

Here’s where you can order bulk bags of food grade Activated carbon: MAPECON Green Charcoal Philippines, Inc. Tel. No. 02 525-0434.

http://naturalsociety.com/food-grade-activated-charcoal-detox-agent/#ixzz2vXtY9FpY

3rd Notice: 18th National Urban Pest Control Week on September 22-28, 2014

3RD NOTICE:

NCUPC goes ASEAN 2015

NCUPC thinks global but acts local!

NCUPC shall celebrate the 18th National Urban Pest Control Week on September 22-18, 2014 in Metro Manila per Presidential Proclamation 990 & 2063 with the readiness for ASEAN 2015.

NCUPC is ready to internationally showcase effective urban pest management and biodegradable waste management.