Be nice to Mother Nature - Recycle!

Start:	Dec 8, '06 08:00a
End:	Dec 8, '06 3:00p
Location:	Goldcrest Parking Lot, Ayala Center, Makati City

If you have junk at home or in the office, maybe it's time to clean up your storage rooms for the holidays and the coming new year, you could go there and sell/dispose the following items at the waste market.

Non-traditional wastes

- Junk electronic and electrical equipment and appliances
- CPU (complete/incomplete/case) and monitors
- Printers, scanners, fax, etc
- Motherboards, PC/telecom cards, printer/med grade boards, harddisk,power/ monitor boards
- Old/obsolete/broken Betamax, VHS, DVD players
- Microwave ovens, toasters
- Electric fans
- Other office and household equipment and appliances
- Used ink/toner printer cartridges, dot matrix ribbon cartridges
- Used acid-lead batteries and rechargeable lamps
- Used/damaged cds, vcds, VHS, betamax and radio cassette tapes
- Busted tivoli (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 (newpapers, 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 for new products, such as 5 kilos of cartons can give you 4 rolls of double-ply tissue paper, or 5 kilos of plastics or 1/2 kilo (30 pcs) of aluminum beverage cans can be exchanged for 1 dozen of hangers, and other trading promos that you can avail of.

These events are organized to help promote recycling in the Philippines. Also, by selling your junk or still useful waste to accredited recyclers,we lessen the amount of trash that go directly to landfills or illegal dumping/recycling. What better way to dispose of your junk at the same time help protect our environment.

These events are organized by the host cities in collaboration with the Philippine Business for the Environment, Ayala Foundation, National Solid Waste Management Commission and DENR.

If you have any questions, please call 752-1084/1178 (adel/tin/jess) or 635-3670/2651 (nancy).

DON'T BE A JUNKIE!!! Kick the habit of throwing away still useful materials.