It's not always dried iether. Often it is green to make smoky fire, to drive mozies away.

 

My best recollection is that people burn whatever they want whenever they want. I think the barangays are supposed to police that, but it isn't done.

 

I lived for a while in a compound on the beach in Zamboaguita. There, the groundies buried organic waste - tree clippings, palm fronds etc - in the sand. Sometimes, they piled it up and burn it. A couple of times they buried household waste in the sand, too