e-Kolekta: Solid Waste Management System (SWMS), A Sustaining Brooke's Point Palawan Solid Waste Department (SWD) Operation for Waste Analysis

The municipality of Brooke's Point in Palawan is tackling solid waste concerns. Manual waste collection logbooks constitute a significant issue. This approach causes data inaccuracies, record loss, human errors, and challenges reporting waste results to the Environment Management Bureau (EMB). Due to manual processes, the municipality's data collection, analysis, and statistical reports need to be revised. To solve the problem, the researchers developed a Solid Waste Management System (SWMS) titled “e-Kolekta: Solid Waste Management System (SWMS), A Sustaining Brooke's Point Palawan Solid Waste Department (SWD) Operations for Waste Analysis.” Implementing SWMS lets the municipality efficiently track waste sources and improve the submission of documentation to the EMB. The system provides valuable data and ideas for environmental and natural resource issues, ensuring accurate reporting and efficient, sustainable operations. Using time series forecasting, k-means clustering, and descriptive analytics within the system reduces human error, enhancing the data's accuracy. Moreover, the system safeguards against data loss by preserving information in a database in a secure manner. The researchers performed alpha and beta testing in Brooke's Point to evaluate the system's performance. The researchers collected the data from a purposely selected group of significant participants involved in the e-Kolekta project. The e-Kolekta SWMS was evaluated by four user groups: system administrators, employees, barangay administrators, and end-users. The system received positive feedback, with a weighted mean score of 3.92 from system administrators, 4.00 from employees, 4.00 from barangay administrators, and 4.00 from end-users. This collective agreement among the user groups highlights the feasibility and environmental friendliness of e-Kolekta as a waste analysis solution for the SWD operations in Brooke's Point, Palawan. The system's effectiveness is further supported by its favorable evaluations, demonstrating its ability to meet the needs of system administrators, employees, barangay administrators, and the public.