MANILA, Philippines – Tang Philippines’ online interactive club, Tang Galing, calls on the Filipino youth to join the movement in contributing positive, and sustainable change to today’s society.
The club’s very first project, Project RecyClass, aims to collect used foil packs that will be recycled and converted to plastic school chairs. The chairs will be donated to selected public schools nationwide. Within a few months after the launch, Tang Galing had already produced 10,000 plastic school chairs from over 11 million pieces of collected foil packs.
The collected foil packs are ground up and mixed with resin. This mix is then used to form the necessary parts of a school chair – writing table, back support and seat. Once these products are finished, the recycled products are assembled.
This project is also an effort to reduce plastic waste. In the past years, plastic material has become a staple in the Philippine economy, generating over 4 million kg of plastic waste everyday.
Sampaloc Site II Elementary School in Paranaque City, an adopted school of Mondelez Philippines, has already received 50 chairs late last year from this project. The brand is scheduled to donate 8,000 more to other public schools nationwide. Tang Galing will also donate 2,000 chairs in Yolanda-hit schools in the Visayas, in an attempt to restore normalcy in the children’s lives.
For more information on how to become part of the campaign, visit the Tang Galing Club website. – Rappler.com
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