Trash to Cashback
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QC launches trash for cash program

Mar 3, 2021, 5:41 AM
Rose De La Cruz

Rose De La Cruz

Writer/Columnist

With the “My Basurero Eco-Community” program, Quezon City residents can turn their trash into "environmental points" that they can use to buy groceries.

QC program turns trash to rewards points

A local news report about Quezon City’s “trash to cashback” program launched last Tuesday is not only laudable but would help many poor families collect recyclable wastes and sell these for food items.

The QC program involves a “My Basurero Eco-Community” kiosk at the QC Hall Risen Garden, where residents can convert the recyclable wastes into “environmental points” that can be used to buy groceries.

Recyclable wastes are plastics, paper and metal wastes, which could soon be sold in kiosks that the city government would roll out in its barangays.

Interested traders must create and register their email through BeepXTRA Philippines to collect their environmental points.

Aside from groceries, the points can be used in food deliveries. A complete list of partner stores and establishments is accessible through bXTRA.com.ph and bXTRAoutlet.delivery websites.

According to the city’s environment head, Andrea A. Villaroman, the city is currently in talks with its Small Business Cooperatives Development and Promotions Office (SBCDPO) for the registration of micro and small businesses as partner merchants of bXTRA.

“If we have more partner merchants where residents can exchange their EPs, mas mahihikayat natin silang ipalit ang kanilang (we can encourage more residents to trade their) recyclable waste,” she said.

Let us just hope this program will not suffer the ningas cogon fate of most programs and projects of Filipinos.


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