A Zero Waste community, according to Emily Dominica Simon-King, owner of The EcoPotato Shop, implements segregated waste collection properly, sustainably manages biodegradables—the majority of our waste—to address the need for food security, adds value to recyclables by collaborating with recyclers and upcyclers, and creates opportunities for livelihood and employment from waste.

TITLE: Davao City's recycled Plastic King

AUTHOR: Germelina Lacorte

DATE: September 15, 2012

KEY CONTENT:
Winchester O Lemen took his father’s word seriously that he ended up recycling soft plastic wastes mined from landfills and turning these into classroom chairs, park benches, and soon, perhaps, a house.

TITLE: A Filipino Company is Turning Plastic Waste into Building Materials

AUTHOR: Adrian Portugal

DATE: October 27, 2021

The Plastic Flamingo, often known as PLAF, is a Filipino organization that turns plastic trash into building materials. The company's "eco-lumber" can be used for disaster relief shelters, decking, fences, and more. They employ waste products including bottles, single-use sachets, and snack food wrappers to make their materials.

TITLE: One Mindanao: Trash to Craft 

AUTHOR: GMA Regional TV

DATE: June 4, 2021

A group of women in Samal Island created products such as bags from used sticker papers. 

The HUGMAI group of women fold these sticker papers to create products, they are also supported by the City Investment and Tourism Office to display their crafts. 

TITLE: Philippine Recyclers Group Turn Plastic Waste into Building Planks

AUTHOR: WION

DATE: October 25, 2021

KEY CONTENT:
WION -The World is One News, examines global issues with in-depth analysis. Here they featured The Plastic Flamingo with their "eco-lumber" which is made from plastic waste. Having collected over 100 tonnes of plastic waste since it started in 2019, the company has been doing its bit to try and tackle a local problem that has global aftermath.

KEY CONTENT:
In this promotional post of OSYAF, they highlighted organizations that help the country cleaner from any type of waste. Thus highlighting Project SWAP's Upcycle MindaNOW is an ambassador program run by the NatGeo Young Explorer Project, a youth ambassador that fights plastic waste through upcycling.  

TITLE: SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT, POLICIES, AND IMPLEMENTATION

AUTHOR: jumpybunny

DATE: October 11, 2019

KEY CONTENT:
The 600 tons of waste collected within Davao City is less than enough to run the WTE project which requires 800 tons of waste daily. Most of these wastes are biodegradable materials, so is this WTE project really the solution to the solid waste management problem in Davao City.

TITLE: Davao City generating 600-650 tons of waste per day

AUTHOR: Ralph Lawrence G. Llemit

DATE: April 23, 2021

KEY CONTENT: 
600-650 tons of waste are collected per day and out of the 182 barangays the waste was collected from, only about 30% practice solid waste management and have material recovery facilities.

Social enterprises run by women in Davao and IGACOS also took part in the event and set up booths to display their goods (slippers, bags, accessories, etc.) as well as the plastic shredders and extruder machines that PSC donated to them. These organizations include Hugpong Manggagama sa Isla (HUGMAI), San Isidro Municipal Women's Association (SIMWA), Women's Bright, and Kalambuan, who have PSC additionally gives training and equipment to social companies that market goods made of upcycled plastic in order to further its goal of finding solutions to the plastic pollution challenge.

To achieve the goal, the company collects single-use plastics from communities and big companies and recycles them into useful items such as school chairs. These products, according to Envirotech, are made of 100 % recycled plastic. 

The company’s President and CEO, Winchester Lemen, said that they were able to process around 2.5 million kilograms (kg) of waste this year in their five plants located across Luzon and Mindanao islands. Aside from chairs, Envirotech has ventured into making benches, trash bins, and pots, among other functional items.

This podcast is significant since Jasper is the Business Development Manager for North West Europe at Clariter, a Polish clean-tech innovator that upcycles plastic waste into chemicals with additional value.

LikhaNegosyo tells the story of a youth group based in Barangay 23-C. They started an initiative to address the community’s plastic waste, hoping that these plastics will not end up in the environment and can be given another chance to be used. Women's Bright, another organization based in 23-C focuses on using PET bottles as their product containers.

AUTHOR: Andrew Forrest, TED

DATE: October 8, 2019
KEY CONTENT:
The discussion in the video centers around the problem surrounding the handling of plastic waste specifically.

 It emphasizes that the act of recycling plastic should be valued to the point where no more plastic should be produced, instead sourcing new plastic for products from plastic waste.

Due to the lack of a TED talk covering Davao City or Mindanao specifically, a TED talk in line with SDG 12 is used instead.