Recycling

Coca-Cola signs MOA with City of Manila for plastic bottle collection and recycling

MANILA, Philippines — Coca-Cola Beverages Philippines, Inc. (CCBPI), the bottling arm of Coca-Cola in the country, has signed a memorandum of agreement (MOA) with the City of Manila for the collection and recycling of PET bottles in the metro. Under the MOA, clear PET plastic bottles—regardless of brand or manufacturer—deposited in contour bottle bins will

Brew a Cup, Build a Future

Striving to find ways to care for the environment has always been important to us at The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf®. We continuously thrive on finding ways to promote love for the environment to our community through various efforts. One of these efforts is to help mitigate our plastic waste from used coffee capsules

Turning plastic waste into school chairs

Filipinos use around 212 million sachets and shopping bags every day. These numbers reflect the country’s dependence on single-use plastics. The situation has not been improving in the Philippines as the country was tagged as a major contributor to the global plastic waste crisis. Advocates said that the problem is exacerbated by firms that sell their products in cheap, disposable packaging.

A recycling company in the Philippines is converting plastic waste into building materials

Envirotech Waste Recycling collects plastic trash such as candy wrappers, shopping bags, plastic straws, shampoo sachets, junk food packaging and converts them into furniture and building materials. The recycling company’s owner, Winchester Lemen says he saw an opportunity upon seeing how much plastic waste ends up in the landfill. So he decided to put up

We ReUse Your ReFuse

This is the story of a man who turns 30 kilograms of plastic into a school chair! He is not a wizard who indulges a magic trick but a mechanical engineer from Davao City. Winchester Lemen, president and CEO of Envirotech Waste recycling Inc. (EWRI), a company he created in 2010, processes up to 90 tons per

BUILDING SOMETHING FROM TRASH: THIS COMPANY IN DAVAO RECYCLES PLASTICS INTO FURNITURE AND MORE

A company in Davao found a way to make use of single-use plastics that are thrown out as garbage. Envirotech Waste Recycling, headed by Winchester Lemen, collects candy wrappers, shopping bags, plastic straws, and the like, to turn them into furniture and building materials. Initially, he started his project by using plastics to build school

Filipino Engineer Uses Recycled Plastic Waste to Create Chairs for Schoolchildren

Filipino engineer Winchester Lemen is a mechanical engineer from the southern Philippines and runs Envirotech Waste Recycling to turn plastic garbage into chairs. Envirotech Waste Recycling (EWRI) began making chairs when a visitor came to his plant to ask if he could make something from recycled plastic, and the engineer presented prototype chairs made of

From plastic wastes to useful chairs

DAVAO CITY, Dec.17 (PIA) —  Addressing shortage of school chairs and disposing plastic wastes are answered in one solution. It is by converting these plastics into chairs and other useful furniture. Engineer Winchester Lemen and his company, Winder Recycling Company with its plant in Sasa processes around 90 tons of plastic trash and transforms them