Blog Action Day: Recyclers Unite!!!!

Today, October 15, is BLOG ACTION DAY!

I know that over here in the Philippines, the day is about to end. But over in North America, the day is not quite half over yet so I am sure there is time to get this thing spreading.

On this day, bloggers from all over the world will blog about — the ENVIRONMENT!

It is really about time we all do our share to protect Mother Nature. The recent spate of very strong earthquakes, devastating typhoons, floods, etc. all point to the urgent, urgent need to protect our planet.

A blogger by the name of Elaine posted some dates of Waste Markets in Metro Manila. While her post was dated January 2007, most of the information on locations and dates of the waste markets are still relevant as well as some telephone numbers of the agencies behind these moves.

Here are some examples of recyclables from her post:

Non-traditional wastes

 

Used acid-lead batteries and rechargeable lamps

Junk electronic and electrical equipment and appliances

* CPU (complete/incomplet e/case) and monitors
* Printers, scanners, fax, etc
* Motherboards, PC/telecom cards, printer/med grade boards, hard disk, power/ monitor boards
* old/obsolete/ broken Betamax, VHS, DVD players
* Microwave ovens, toasters
* Electric fans
* other office and household equipment and appliances

Empty ink/toner printer cartridges, dot matrix ribbon cartridges

Damaged CDs, VCDs, VHS, betamax and radio cassette tapes

Busted tiboli (Christmas) lights

Used oil (for registration – do not bring to the area)

Styrofoam (polystyrene) and other packaging materials (for donation)

Cellphone and cellphone batteries (for donation only)

Traditional Waste

Used paper and cartons (newspapers, komiks, notebooks, reports, old test papers, phone directories, etc)

damaged/broken plastic furniture, containers, bottles, etc. (anything plastic!)

Aluminum and tin cans (soda/food cans)

You can also exchange these traditional waste items to new products! Used paper/cartons for double-ply tissues, plastics or aluminum cans for plastic hangers…

If we just look around our homes, we will really find a lot of junk and gunk which can be brought to these waste markets and exchanged for cash. I think we would be surprised at how much cash we can generate from stuff lying around. At the same time, we know these would be recycled into reusable products.

Let’s do our share to protect our planet!