Social Work Interventions and Ecological Solid Waste Management of Indigent Households

Aim: Social work skills and knowledge are useful in addressing effects and mitigating environmental degradation specifically on the issue of improper waste management.Hence, this study determined the extent of social work interventions and ecological solid waste management of indigent households at Barangay Malobago, Daraga, Albay.Methodology: This study utilized a descriptive correlational design to be able to assess and describe the effect of the intervention provided by the members of the Universidad De Sta.Isabel to the community in Barangay Malobago, Daraga, Albay.It focused on providing a detailed and accurate representation of the data that will be collected relative to awareness of Solid Waste Management concepts and its compliance vis a vis the social work intervention.Data was collected from the representative of the whole population of the resettlement site.This is intended to increase the reliability and validity of the data.A 100% sampling or the total number of populations of the community was surveyed.Results: Findings of the study showed that the extent of social work interventions in ecological solid waste management to the households on the four processes of ecological solid waste management (generation, collection, transportation, and disposal) was very high.Additionally, the extent of compliance of the community on solid waste management indicated general compliance to the ESWM indicators.This implies that the involvement and interventions of social workers are considered of utmost importance as what was experienced in the locale of the study and that there tend to be a strong positive relationship among all the variables.Furthermore, there were factors deemed related to social work interventions organized into themes on community openness vis a vis government or non-government interventions, advocacy, community organizing, and role of local government unit (barangay and municipal level).Also, factors on ecological solid waste management were determined focusing on knowledge of environmental laws and solid waste management, policies and Barangay Solid Waste Management Committee, LGU, NGO, and GO support, establishing materials recovery facility (MRF) and road infrastructure, and community practices and behavioral change.Conclusion: Based on the findings, it can be deduced that there is a need for social work interventions to be more proactive and preventive to stop and prevent further environmental degradation and its impact to society.Also, strengthen the existing interventions to the community for sustainability.This requires creative application of the existing social work skills to environmental issues and to further develop and broaden the knowledge and skills encompassing the unrelenting issues on the environment that affect the well-being of the human person.