San Miguel Corp. (SMC) is nearing completion of its river cleanup in Bulacan, and is setting its sights on Pampanga River.
SMC is also looking to expand cleanup efforts in Binan, Laguna, and Paranaque City.
The Bulacan river cleanup removed over 4.2 million tons of silt and waste.
This effort, spanning 74 kilometers of waterways, is the largest volume extracted in SMC’s Luzon-wide initiative.
The project, part of SMC’s “Better Rivers PH” advocacy, comes at no cost to the government or taxpayers. It has been running since 2020, and previously covered the Tullahan, Pasig, and San Juan rivers in Metro Manila, among others.
SMC’s Bulacan cleanup has removed waste from major rivers including the Taliptip-Maycapiz-Bambang, Meycauayan, Marilao, Mailad-Sta. Maria, Guiguinto, Balagtas, Pamarawan, Kalero, and Labangan-Angat Rivers.
“Our river cleanup initiative in Bulacan is now in its second year and so far, it is the most extensive of all the river cleanups we have done. The total volume of wastes and silt we have removed here–4,255,398 tons–is about twice the combined volume we extracted from the Pasig and Tullahan rivers,” said SMC chairman and CEO Ramon Ang.
