Colgate-Palmolive Philippines president Arvind Sachdev (left) and Republic Cement president and CEO Nabil Francis (right) ink a partnership to help reduce the amount of plastic waste ending up in landfills and waterways through the latter’s co-processing initiative, thereby helping attain the former’s plastic waste reduction goals.
Dubbed ecoloop, Republic Cement’s resource recovery arm oversees the co-processing initiative, or the reuse or recovery of thermal and mineral properties of qualified waste materials while manufacturing cement in a single combined operation.