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5 places you can drop off your plastic waste
With delivery packages coming in left and right and loosened restrictions on the wearing face shields, you may find yourself surrounded with a lot of plastic waste.
Don't discard it carelessly — we don't need any more plastics choking our oceans or ending up in landfills. Help the environment out and throw it away properly. Here are five places you can drop your plastic waste off:
1. The Plastic Flamingo
The Plastic Flamingo (PLAF) is a social enterprise that turns plastic waste into eco-lumber that people can use to create furniture and even emergency shelters.
They collect all types of plastic — from used face shields to plastic makeup containers and hangers — as long as they are cleaned, washed, and dried.
According to their Instagram page, PLAF can turn nine kilos of plastic waste into a 2-meter eco-plank, while they can make 21 kilos of plastic waste into a 3-meter eco-post. Not too bad, no?
Although only the HDPE, LDPE, PP, PET, and sachet plastics are the only materials turned to eco-lumbers, other unused products are sent to other recycling partners.
You can drop off your wastes in multiple PLAF drop-off points: Decathlon (Alabang, Masinag, an Tienesitas), Ayala UP Town Center, Eco-lution (Biliran province), Eco Folk PH (Bacolod City), Jollibee (Fairview, Metro Plaza Quirino, Zabarte Town Center). Instagram. Website
2. My Basurero
Created by Basic Environmental Systems and Technologies, Inc., My Basurero is an app that gives you cash back points in exchange for your plastic waste.
The points, also known as “environmental points” can be used to buy products made with recycled materials from the platform’s mobile redemption store or other partner outlets.
The "all-in-one app waste collection" app also allows users to have a “hassle-free” collection service, letting users book pickup dates for when they can come and pick up the waste from the user's home.
Simply download the app, upload a photo of your waste, and they’ll give you a quotation. From pickup, they will deliver the waste to any of their recycling partner companies.
According to the My Basurero site, they accept not only recyclable wastes but also construction debris, garden waste, food, and bulky wastes. Instagram. Website.
3. Green Antz Builders
Green Antz Builders is an innovative waste management company that intertwines eco-friendly practices with housing solutions. The company collects clean and dry plastic materials and transforms them into ecobricks.
According to its website, the company sorts out the collected plastic material and processes it into molds, which in turn will become bricks.
For November 19 to 30, you can drop off your recyclables at their drop off points in Ayala Feliz, Solenad, Cloverleaf, UP Town Center, Vertis North, Bonifacio High Street, and Salcedo Market among others. Website.
4. Trash Panda
Created by startup company Circula Racoon, Trash Panda is an app that books recyclable waste collection.
Through the app, users can not only book services that will collect their segregated recyclable waste, but also possibly earn cash back from the direct sale of their collected items to recycling facilities.
Simply download the app, schedule a pick up (priced depending on how much waste you’ll dispose of and your location), and Trash Panda will inform you where your recyclables will go to.
Aside from plastic, this app also collects paper, metal and beverage boxes.
Currently, Trash Panda is only available in Las Piñas, Makati, Mandaluyong, Manila, Marikina, Muntinlupa, Parañaque, Pasay, Pasig, Pateros, Quezon City, San Juan, Taguig, Angono, Antipolo, Binangonan, Cainta, and Taytay. Facebook. Website.
5. Trash Cash PH
Yet another app, Trash Cash PH helps citizens turn their trash into cash, but this time, with the help of Artificial intelligence.
Through an AI-based and data-driven waste segregation platform, Trash Cash PH helps you go through a hassle-free recycling process.
Download the app, scan the trash, and it will display the waste’s value and its category.
With the information given, you can now properly collect and segregate your trash. You can then drop off your waste at Trash Cash PH’s partner centers. For each kilo, you can get an equivalent amount of points which you can redeem using the app’s partner reward provider. Website.
— LA, GMA News
