what: Waste Market Day
when: every first Friday and Saturday of the month
time: from 8am to 2pm
where: open parking in every SM Supermall
It’s sponsored by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources and is brought to us in partnership with the SM Group of Companies and the Philippine Business for the Environment.
when: every first Friday and Saturday of the month
time: from 8am to 2pm
where: open parking in every SM Supermall
It’s sponsored by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources and is brought to us in partnership with the SM Group of Companies and the Philippine Business for the Environment.
What can you trade or sell at the waste market?
Items you can trade:
- Scrap paper and cardboard – for bathroom tissue, table napkins, bond paper and notebooks.
- Empty ink and toner cartridge – for quality remanufactured ones
- Plastic bottles and plastic scraps – for plastic household items like hangers, basins and pails
- Used lead batteries (from cars, UPS and voltage regulators) – for car check-up coupons
Items you can sell:
- Used PET bottles (containers of softdrinks and mineral water bottles)
- Aluminum and tin cans
- Junk electrical appliance, specially computer monitors
Items you can just drop off:
- Polystyrene
- Styrofoam
- Junk cellphones and cellphone batteries
This project is in support of Republic Act 9003 or the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000. The act calls for “practical applications of environmentally sound techniques of waste minimization such as segregation, recycling, resource recovery, re-use and composting.”
For more information, you may contact the administration of the SM Supermall nearest you.
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