We get a lot of questions on how to volunteer and contribute to society. Here are some organizations we know that are doing good work - and you could potentially collaborate with them in your own areas!
WASTE RECYCLING SOLUTIONS
1. Ecouling - recycling biodegradable solid waste like coconuts into charcoal reducing trees cut
2. Sentinnel Upcycling - using plastic trash from places like Zambales and Manila Bay and turning them into trash cans, pallets, crates and other items
3. WASTO - Waste Solutions turned into furniture and interior design items.
4. ALON and Araw - this org empowers young girls in Zambales to develop sports skills and clean the environment while recycling the plastic sachets and other waste into medals, key chains, pillows, etc.
5. Humble Sustainability - recycling E waste such as computers, washing machines, phones, etc.
6. River Recycle - taking trash from pasig river and turning them into plastic boards for interior design purposes.
7. Precious Plastic - recycling plastic into lumber like logs that can be used for pool decks, fences, and other forms of construction
8. Junk Not - using plastic and wood waste and turning them into award winning furniture and design pieces.
9. Soilmates - turning food waste into healthy soil and compost!
WASTE REDUCTION SOLUTIONS
1. Continuiti - a fashionable dress and clothing rental store that gives Gen Z access to fashionable clothing at 5-10% of the cost, allowing them to rent items that they would probably only use once - and thereby reducing fashion waste. (Imagine the polyester prevented!)
2. Ecoshift - a refilling and plastic conscious personal care store that allows you to skip plastic packaging with your soap, shampoo and other skincare needs. They have prevented millions of pcs of plastic packaging from entering natural spaces.
3. Ripple X - a distributor of dishwashing and shampoo that empowers sari sari stores to be refilling stations. This enterprise gives them the start up kit to do refills are a fraction of the cost of regular sachet products. they have over 1000 stores.
4. AKO packaging - provides real biodegradable sando bags and take out food containers that give you convenience but do not harm nature. Their bags are made of cassava.
5. Philippine Alliance for Sustainable Solutions (PASS) - a group of organizations collaborating for to support business transition to sustainability.
OTHER ORGS
Masungi Georeserve - a beautiful and exciting conservation organization based in Rizal that protects limestone karsts and the Sierra Madre Watershed.
Egip Foundation - Davao based reforestation organization that supports indigenous communities in preserving and restoring their ancestral forests
Hineleban Foundation - Bukidnon based reforestation and green economy organization. They do amazing work with tribal communities and help them grow coffee and other agro forest crops using the latest nature based soil science. They are also permaculture trainers alongside their farm - Tuminugan Farm.
Philippine Permaculture Association - Strong fundamentals in permaculture education based in Luzon. They can train others to build better farms, forest and agroforest systems.
Lighthouse Legacy Foundation - Works in Subic bay and Zambales, reducing waste and empowering the Aetas.
WWF - World Wildlife Fund (WWF) leads international efforts to protect endangered species and their habitats and address global threats such as pollution, over-fishing and climate change.
Haribon - Haribon is the Philippines’ pioneer environmental organization. Hatched in 1972, the organization, and the individuals it trained and nurtured were instrumental in the formation of other environmental organizations in the country, giving birth to the Philippine environmental movement as a whole. Today they undertake various reef to ridge events to help educate people and protect nature.
CORA - a Manila based waste collection hub that focuses on the southern part of Metro Manila to reduce waste. They connect waste to the circular economy through a network of recyclers.
For The Future - NGO working alongside several communities - Agusan Marsh in Mindanao, Sitio Yangil in Zambales and Bicol. They focus on education of students within the areas they work with + reforestation.
The Cacao Project - working in Bicol to empower coconut farmers to multi-crop and produce world class cacao, while applying soil restoration science and teaching communities how to make their own chocolate.
One Pawikan - A Manila based organization, One Pawikan is an initiative to raise awareness to mobilize local knowledge on the current conservation status of marine turtles in the Philippines.
ABSCBN Foundation - A strong disaster relief and environmental organization. ABSCBN has worked in various areas such as reforestation, marine conservation and volunteer food packing.
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