Coca-Cola Philippines continues to support women entrepreneurs’ many recycling and packaging collection programs as part of the company’s initiatives toward inclusive, sustainable solutions in the country.
Coca-Cola Foundation Philippines, the Coca-Cola’s social development arm, has partnered with conservation social enterprise Pure Oceans to train and empower communities and their women leaders to create waste management solutions that have a lasting impact.
This partnership with Pure Oceans has diverted at least 29,585 kilograms of plastic waste from oceans; trained 170 waste management leaders in Tingloy, Batangas; and provided P26,000 monthly income to 11 plastic buying program staff, mostly composed of women.
Pure Oceans is composed of changemaker women led by founder, Pia Roxas-Ocampo, an advertising consultant by profession, and a scuba diver and marine advocate at heart. The organization works with coastal communities to achieve sustainable solutions against plastic litter, with its flagship project in the Philippines, Linis Islas, running in Tingloy, Batangas.
Linis Islas is an advocacy program that has given women the power to lead and transform their communities by educating more people, especially in litter-vulnerable islands. It also established buying programs at Barangay Santo Tomas in Tingloy and Barangay San Teodoro in Mabini, Batangas to encourage communities to source clean and segregated plastics from coastal island communities for recycling or upcycling.
