Turning trash to cash ...

There's truth to the saying ... your trash is a gold mine to others.  This story tells us of how used papers and cartoons are made into a business that started small and level up into supplying requirements of dealers around the country.   

Recycling plant supplies distributors' eggs trays requirements nationwide

DAVAO CITY, May 7 (PNA) -- Out of waste papers and cartoons, a Davao-based recycling plant supplies the needs of egg trays of distributors in the country.

Jomaray Pulp Pacaking Industries human resource manager Joefrey Oclarit told Tuesday's Davao Business Forum at DermPath in SM City Davao they source their raw materials of waste papers and cartoons from the different establishments in the city and in the box plant of Dole Philippines.

JPPI is headed by Jonathan O. Suy who was awarded as the Small Business Entrepreneur of the country in 2012 by Ernst and Young.

Anchored on the company's support for protecting the environment, he said they proportion their production with 70 percent waste papers and 30 percent water.

And the water used is also being recycled, he said.

He said they could produce 5,000 egg trays per hour and their operation is for 24 hours.

Thirty percent of the waste materials are sourced out from Davao City and 70 percent from Dole Philippines box plant.

He sad about 6 tons of waste products are hauled from Dole box plant even as he said that they also get materials from other government offices like the shredded waste papers from Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas.

But in the case of the BSP, a bank representative goes to our plant to make sure that the shredded waste papers are used in our production as this is part of the requirement of the government.

Oclarit said the concept and design was our own innovation and the machines used by the plant here is manufactured in China which they had an agreement that said design and concept is solely for their own use.

He said before they upgraded into total automation of their production about 300 workers were employed and with the new technology, the operation for the recycling plant is run by 100 people.

The other product that the plant produces are the papaya and pineapple trays that Dole Philippines need for their fruit export to Japan and other foreign markets.

He said it was the plant's product offer to Dole which they become the sole supplier of this particular item.

He said the Dole company upon using the trays produced by JPPI noted lesser wastage.

As this developed, he said the demand is increasing but "we see the lack of raw materials as a positive problem".

Right now he said they are negotiating with big malls to buy their waste paper and cartoons. "We are just finalizing some details and hopefully we get an additional volume of 3 to 4 tons weekly at the two SM malls (Ecoland and Lanang) and another 2 tons in NCCC.

Oclarit also said that they have also special contracts like a company in Batangas where they manufactured an electronic tray for Ionics Skyware Electronic Device that are shipped to the US and Europe.

He said they will also venture into producing paper plates and cups with the total ban of plastics and styro products in the city.

But he said they will be using virgin materials of white bond paper from paper mills and printing presses.

"The project is still being studied and hopefully we could start the production of the new product by the third quarter," he said. (PNA) hbc/ASA/Prix/Digna D. Banzon/ldp

Summerishere !

And when it's summer, it is associated with beach time, bright colors, flowers, travel, vacation  but the sad part of it is the hot weather.

It is not only a hot one but a real hot weather !

In the country that I live, the Philippines and Davao City in particular, we always enjoy that good weather climate.

But gone are the days because we had our share  with the hottest so far at 36.1 degrees temperature. The weather here now plays around 32 to 35 degrees ... so mainit talaga (really hot).

Creative as we are, we resort to keeping the cool .... some goes indoor and turns on their aircondition units.
While others opted to stay outdoor while working and for those without any cooling appliances make do with what is there ... a fan, a card board to relieve them of the heat. A liter of water is a great relief too.

However, nothing beats nature because a cool breeze is soft when it touches your skin and so cool that it  goes to the bones to keep us cool.

No one knows best but Him ... thank you for caring us Lord ... grateful !

 

it's good to be back ... need to catch up... a lot to write about !

Opening of SM Davao offers 10,000 jobs

DAVAO CITY,Sept. 29 (PNA) -- Some 10,000 new jobs are up for grabs following the opening of the SM Lanang Premier and the Radisson Hotel here on Friday.

SM Prime Holdings president Hans T. Sy said "we have been very aggressive in Mindanao because we saw the potential in the island. What we are doing in China is also what we are doing here," he said.

Sy led the opening of SM Lanang Premier on Sept. 28 and had the new landmark inaugurated on Sept. 27 along with the first IMAX threatre, the first Forever 21 store in the region, an SMX Convention Center.

"It will also feature the Science Discovery Center. The Radisson Hotel will open in February 2013," he said.

The Park, an outdoor event venue was, simultaneously opened to the public. It has a breathtaking 122 meters musical fountain and a Skygarden with greens, water features, and restaurants.

Sy said the purchasing power in Mindanao is strong and this can be seen in the study they made per transaction basis.

"I'm giving them reason to spend by offering new market to make the economy rolling," he said.
Sy said next year they will have two projects in Mindanao where another mall will be built in Cagayan de Oro City and in Butuan City with a capital expense each at P2 billion.

"The Cagayan mall will be similar to that in Olongapo City with 1.7 hectares area of multi-level type while Butuan will have an area of 90,000 square meters," he said.

"What we are doing is to invest back the cash we generated in the 46 malls and not just borrow funding for reason of expansion," he said.

Sy also emphasized that all their projects come with sustainability even as he said that features of water collection and recycling is one major component in all the malls that they operate both here and abroad.

Davao City vice mayor Rodrigo R. Duterte said "the opening of SM Premier mall showed to the world that our city is the right investment area and a peaceful city to do business."(PNA) ghg/Prix Digna D. Banzon/ldp/utb

We need to protect Mother Nature ... the Indigenous Peoples here need all the help to keep the trees growing in their ancestral domain, the place they consider so sacred to them ... here's an article I write about a tree planting activity here ...


Davao Sur tribes thank hydropower firm for reforesting Mt. Apo Natural Park

STA. CRUZ, Davao del Sur (PNA)-– The Bagobo-Tagabawa communities in Sibulan, Sta. Cruz here expressed gratitude for the Hedcor, Inc. and Hedcor Sibulan, Inc. reforestation program implemented in the areas at the foot of the Mt. Apo, the country’s highest mountain.

Datu Rudy Agtad, a 50-year-old Bagobo-Tagabawa chieftain, and one of the community members of Barangay Sibulan, who recently trekked the Mt. Apo Natural Park joined the team in planting 2,000 narra seedlings at Sitio Lower Pogpog, Barangay Sibulan.

“We were not wrong when we accepted the (Sibulan hydropower) project in our lands,” relates Agtad. Adding “we are thankful Hedcor commits and takes its responsibility to protect and preserve our environment and the watershed.”

Hedcor has already planted more than 100,000 trees in the 1,000 hectares of the Mt. Apo Natural Park adopted by the company as part of its Watershed Management Plan (WMP).

The planted trees are constantly monitored by the company’s environmental department, representatives from the Province of Davao del Sur and Municipality of Sta. Cruz and Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR).

Barangay Sibulan is host to the first hydropower project registered under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change as a Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) Project, the Hedcor’s 42.5 mega watts (MW) run-of-river hydropower plant.

The tree planting activity was also part of the second simultaneous tree planting nationwide of the Aboitiz group companies. The first was organized after AboitizPower did a pioneering carbon emission inventory that showed there is a need to plant one million trees over time to offset carbon emissions. (PNA)
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