PepsiCo Philippines led a at the Las Piñas-Paranaque Wetland Park as it recognize over 90 plastic waste collection sites in Cebu Province, Batangas, Cavite, Bulacan, Laguna, and Pasig run by waste-to-cash program Aling Tindera.
As part of their Earth Day initiatives, PepsiCo, alongside HOPE (a PCX Markets partner), organized a beach clean-up where their team collected 114 kg of plastic waste which were donated to Elvira Garcia, an Aling Tindera member from Cavite.
The Aling Tindera project kicked off in 2020 in Metro Manila and expanded to 76 community collection sites nationwide in 2022 to commemorate the 76th year of PepsiCo in the Philippines.
PepsiCo’s Aling Tindera program covered 56 community sites managed by Aling Tinderas and 20 institutional drop-off sites, including malls and resorts.
Through the infrastructure supported by PepsiCo Philippines, the 76 Aling Tindera sites have been able to collect 2,944,074 kilograms of plastic waste between 2020 and the end of 2023.
The additional 15 sites sponsored by the PepsiCo Foundation, meanwhile, provided infrastructure that helped Aling Tinderas collect another 212,144 kilograms during that period.
This initiative has not only spurred a circular economy but also raised the monthly income of women entrepreneurs by an impressive 48 percent.