Saturday, December 08, 2007 Recycling Market Day at SM Supermalls
FRIDAY is the R-Day or Recycling Market Day of all SM Supermalls. After a series of successful Waste Market Fairs that revealed how environmentally conscious many Filipinos had become, all 30 SM Supermalls nationwide will again become trading places for goods. This will be held from 8AM to 12NN at the mall's parking lots.
Shoppers can trade their traditional and non-traditional waste items into cash at the Recycling Market Day. Traditional waste items include paper, plastic, PET bottles, tin cans, metal and cartons, while non-traditional wastes include ink cartridges, electronic wastes, computer printers, and appliances.
Participating recyclers are HMR for E-waste; Polytrader/Linis Ganda for plastic wastes; Kilus/TIPCO/Linis Ganda for papers; PRI for used lead acid batteries, and YGARC for ink cartridges. Other buyers from other malls are the local garbage haulers of traditional wastes.
The Recycling Day is made in partnership with the National Solid Waste Management Committee, Philippine Business for the Environment, CENRO Pasig, EPWD-QC, and various local government units. It will feature activities like storytelling sessions. In some SM malls, there will be briefings about the Freedom Tree Project. Freedom Trees are decorative and functional prison products painstakingly handcrafted from PET and other plastic beverages.
Recycling means turning materials that would be otherwise become waste into valuable resources. Here are some tips on how to recycle from the SM Supermalls:
• Recycle any laser/Ink printer cartridges.
• Take aluminum foil, old phone books, glass bottles and jam jars to the Recycling Market Day.
• Compost vegetable peelings, cut flowers, shredded newspaper, and grass cuttings. Composting is nature's way of recycling organic waste into new soil, which can be used in vegetable and flower gardens, landscaping, and many other applications.
• Encourage your friends and family to get involved in recycling at home, at school and in the workplace.
• Support local recycling efforts.
But why recycle? More than just the opportunity to clean your closets, you'll be amazed at its environmental, economic and social advantages.
• Recycling generates civic pride and environmental awareness.
• Recycling helps prevent environmental pollution.
• Recycling saves natural resources.
• Recycling conserves raw materials used in industry.
• Making products from recycled ingredients often uses much less energy than producing the same product from raw materials.
• Recycling reduces the amount of material dumped in landfill sites and helps our waste disposal problems.
• Goods are used productively and prevented from becoming litter and garbage.
