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Thursday, December 18, 2003
Coke employees make Xmas decors from waste materials
CALASIAO -- Even Christmas has got to be economically and environmentally relevant these days.
At the Coca-Cola Bottling Corporation plant here, employees were challenged to come up with Christmas decorations made out of waste materials from plant products like bottles, caps, cans, signages, awnings, cartoons and other scraps.
Rey Ortaleza, area human resources specialist, said the plant management came up with the idea of creating decors out of waste materials because "we wanted to celebrate Christmas in an inexpensive way and at the same time tap the creativity of the employees."
"In a way, it's a cost-cutting measure and it's also a support to the solid waste management program of the company," he said.
Vic Caducio, manufacturing manager of the plant and who heads the management committee, said 21 entries were submitted by groups of employees from the plant's seven departments. The Y2003 Christmas D'r Contest was supposed to be inter-department, but obviously, the employees' creative juices oozed that the management allowed several entries from every department.
And the finished products? A giant Santa Claus with a body made of the all-too-familiar red plastic label of the 1-liter Coke bottle and a moustache of 'polishing filter (rope).' Of course, in his hand a can of Coke.
And imagine this: A nativity scene entirely made of waste materials--the manger made of cans stocked on top of another, the bodies of St. Joseph and the Virgin Mary from bottles and their heads fashioned out of caps; cut-out camels and sheep from cans.
There were stars of all sizes beautifully crafted from cans and more cans, an evergreen Christmas tree cut out of the green Sprite plastic bottles, a Snowman with a body of used foam with eyes and nose of crowns, a flower decoration entirely made of straw.
"We did not expect that we will get this much number of entries," Caducio said.
The contest pieces were exhibited in front of the plant, where usually expensive Christmas decorations were displayed during the past Christmases. The winners, which will be judged based on originality, creativity, beauty and relevance to Christmas, are yet to be announced. The judges are members of the Kalikasan Vigilante ng Pangasinan- Save the Parongking River Ecosystem Foundation, of which the plant is a corporate member.
Ortaleza said this was the first time the plant came up with a contest to use recyclable materials to make decorations but the plan is to make it a yearly project.
(December 18, 2003 issue)
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