MANILA – Plagued with discarded face masks, plastic bottles and other trash during the COVID-19 pandemic, a small riverside community in Manila created its own waste management service, giving its workers, mostly women, a chance to boost their livelihoods.
The Tagumpay 83Zero Waste Association’s network of street sweepers, drivers and creek rangers clean up waterways and collect recyclable waste from the community’s 5,700 residents as well as 24 nearby villages and five schools.
They also run a junkshop where they earn money by selling collected trash, such as single-use plastic bottles and hard plastics, to recycling facilities.
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