Evaluating Waste Management Strategies: Opportunities for Collaborative Community Engagement

Solid waste encompasses a variety of discarded materials resulting from human activities. The primary purpose of this study is to enhance collaborative community engagement in waste management strategies that lead to achieving sustainable development goals that ensure the health and well-being of everyone, improve sanitation in the environment, and make humans and cities safe and sustainable. Waste management is a complex issue that requires an appropriate approach. With this, a descriptive method was employed to analyze solutions and conditions in the selected barangay that generates the highest waste per day, which is the Barangay Gulang-Gulang in Lucena City. The researchers used a convenience sampling technique in distribution to 380 respondents from the community. The researchers recommend the proposed program “EcoSolution: For Sustainable Community” to engage the community and encourage them to adopt responsible waste management practices, especially the composting of organic waste, recycling programs, waste reduction strategy, and gain some knowledge about the importance and function of Material Recovery Facility because according to the findings of the study, there are common waste management strategies implemented in the locale based on the observation of the respondents such as waste segregation, clean-up drive campaigns and regular collection schedule of waste that is why the researchers proposed a program which requires the involvement of barangay and members of the community for the better development of the community to have sustainable development.