Coca-Cola envision a World Without Waste

For many years now, Coca-Cola Beverages Philippines Inc. (CCBPI) has found a home in Davao. With two of the Company’s bottling plants in the region, Coca-Cola has continuously gone beyond the FOUR WALLS of its manufacturing facilities to work with communities and local government UNITS, with a goal of refreshing the lives of Davaoeños.

This year, Coca-Cola is sharing its World Without Waste vision and its goal of helping further improve the beautiful city into a cleaner, greener, and more sustainable destination. 

Through sharing its World Without Waste vision, Coca-Cola aims to further its long-term partnership with the local government of Davao. This will involve strengthening the PET bottle collection efforts in the city through a multi-stakeholder approach that unites the public and private sector. The Company aims to set up collection systems across the city and work with a local recycling technology partner, Winder Recycling, to give its packaging a new life, a new purpose—a process based on the circular economy model. 

IN AS MUCH AS PET bottles are sought after—collected, sold to junk shops, and FIND their way into being recycled into textile or other products, BEING high-value plastic and highly recyclable—Coca-Cola ensures a closed loop by diverting the collected PET to Winder Recycling, where it is processed and given new purpose. Winder Recycling— a Davao-based recycler and partner of Coca-Cola for this endeavor—will be transforming these post-consumer PET bottles into school chairs, benches, and even trash bins—making sure that they don’t lose value.

  

Coca-Cola has set up World Without Waste installations— spaces where Davaoeños can recycle, refresh, and relax—  that feature the beverage brand’s iconic bottle collection bin, benches made from 1,000 recycled PET bottles each, and a collection bin made from 600 recycled PET bottles, in five major parks: People’s Park, Rizal Park, Botanical, Magsaysay Park, and Sta. Ana Wharf. Sixty (60) bins were also donated by Coca-Cola to several smaller parks around the city. 

Standing alongside one of its installations at the Magsaysay Park in Davao City is (from left):  Rommin Diaz, External Communications and Sustainability Manager; Atty. Marc Cox, Stakeholder Relations Senior Manager; Atty. Juan Lorenzo Tañada, Corporate and Regulatory Affairs Director; Adrian Javier, Commercial Unit Director, Southeast Mindanao; John Reyes, Region Sales Manager; Eric Tinga, Davao Plant Manager; and Winchester Lemen, Winder Recycling Company, President

With each initiative, Coca-Cola strives to continue working closely with its partners in Davao to create a more sustainable system that will help the city grow and thrive, and become a World Without Waste model to emulate across the entire country.