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Las Piñas – Parañaque, Philippines – awareness to the harmful effects of
As part of the observance of the these wastes to the environment.
International Coastal Cleanup Day,
CAVITEX, in partnership with the “Our annual participation in the
Financial Executives of the Philippines International Coastal Cleanup is part of
(FINEX), Integrated Bar of the CAVITEX’s corporate social
Philippines PPLM and Cavite Chapter, responsibility program focused on
Management Association of the preserving the environment. This year,
Philippines (MAP), Dow Chemicals and aside from our loyal partner FINEX,
PEATC volunteered for the coastal we’ve received additional hands from
cleanup activity last September 22, 2018 IBP, MAP and Dow Chemicals to clean
at the Las Piñas-Parañaque Critical up LPPCHEA, the last eco-tourism
Habitat and Ecotourism Area frontier in the Metro. And as we bring
(LPPCHEA). companies and people closer thru this
activity, I hope that events like this will
With the aim to save our seas and give eventually lead to a trash-free
back to the environment, contingents community,” said Antoinetter Taus,
from the said companies were quick in actress and representative of CORA.
responding to DENR’s call in dedicating
a portion of their weekend thru picking Also present to take part in this good
up wastes in our coastlines and cause are Senator Cynthia A. Villar,
showing our care for mother nature. chairperson of the Senate Committee
on Environment and Natural Resources,
Together with volunteers from MMDA, DENR Sec. Roy A. Cimatu, and actress
Maynilad, LGUs of Las Piñas and Antoinette Taus of Community
Parañaque, Philippine National Police, Organize for Resource Allocation
Philippine Marines and Philippine Navy, (CORA).
the CAVITEX volunteers were scattered
across the 20 stations in the area, each Held every third Saturday of
sorting out the trash by its kind, and September, the International Coastal
then recorded for data gathering Cleanup is an event spearheaded by
purposes. the Ocean Conservancy group that
aims to eliminate ocean trash. Since
Items such as cigarette butts, plastic 1994, Philippines remain to be a top
food wrappers, beverage bottles, bottle participating country in this global
caps and grocery bags constitute some effort, recovering thousands of kilos of
of the most common items found in marine waste from its coastlines.
the coastline. The data gathered will be During ICC events, volunteers are not
included with the ones collected in only retrieving the waste from water
other coastal cleanup sites across the bodies but are also asked to do a “waste
country that were all done audit” to tally the items found during
simultaneously. These will be used for the cleanup.
strengthening laws and policies in solid
waste management and help raise
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