MONEY FOR NOTHING / FROM TRASH TO CASH! =D

Sister Pusjing forwarded several links to me about recycling fairs that now happen regularly in SM Supermalls and in the Ayala Malls in cooperation with the DENR. Happy, happy, joy, joy! =D Good to know that the big guns are getting involved, but I wish more people knew about it. So this is me doing my bit to tell more people about it. =)

Last weekend (after 3 consecutive weekends of out-of-town trips, woohoooooo!!!), the Hubby and I decided to stay put in House Pioneer instead of going home to House Better as we usually do during weekends. He was feeling under the weather and really just wanted to crash and sleep all day. I decided to use the time to clean--ACK! Something, admittedly, I have put off for quite some time. In any case, while I am not even half-way done, I've discovered (unearthed is more like it!) two XL garbage-bag full of items that I have decided to drop off at these recycling fairs. (Naku, I actually think I can unearth a lot more if I kept at this house-cleaning bit--enough for all the recycling fairs to be held on the remaining months of 2009! Haha. =D)

In any case, they say to minimize your carbon footprint, you must learn AND apply three words. REDUCE. RE-USE. RECYCLE.


Self-explanatory. In any case, you might have some of these lying around your house. You can actually exchange some of them for cash at the recycling fairs:

• Used Lead Acid Batteries. Genset, UPS and motor batteries
• E-Waste. non-working electronic and electrical appliances, VHS, betamax, cassette tapes, obsolete CPUs and monitors (Aha! Now I know where I could bring my darn industrial fan with a gnawed-off plug. =))
• Paper Waste. Used paper, old newspaper, cartons, magazines, obsolete books, posters.
• Plastic and Metal Waste. Bottles, containers, sando bags, plastic furniture, aluminum cans, tin cans and other metals
• Printer Cartridges. Toners and ink cartridge

No cash exchanges for the next items on the list, but you may also bring the following in case you need help in disposing them: tarpaulin streamers, household batteries, polystyrene packaging, mobile phones, batteries and chargers, tetra pak cartons.

Let's do our bit to minimize the mountain of garbage that we generate. Goodness knows we have enough of these in every country, city, town, street!

This June, the recycling fairs in the Ayala facilities are from 8:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. on the following dates:

• JUNE 5 - Paseo de Magallanes, Bgy. Magallanes, Makati City (beside Honda)
• JUNE 12 - Goldcrest Parking Lot, Glorietta Makati (behind the restaurant row)
• JUNE 13 - Bonifacio Global City, Bonifacio High Street
• JUNE 19 - Alabang Town Center Parking Lot (in front of St. Jerome's Church)
• JUNE 26 - Trinoma Open Carpark

Bit of trivia from the Ayala Foundation site: Did you know that recycling ONE aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for THREE hours?

Food for thought as you clean up your house and go to the recycling fairs! =D

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I still have to get the details for the SM Supermalls. In the meantime, should you have any questions re: the Ayala fairs, please call 7521084 or write them a swm@ayalafoundation.org.