Reimagine Recycling

Goal

Reduce solid wastes leaking into the environment by building the capacity of grassroots initiatives to scale their operations in waste collection, upcycling, or recycling

Timeline

2019-2024

Reimagine Recycling (RR) began in 2019 as a forum to bring together recycling initiatives across the nation looking to elevate and scale their solutions for plastic pollution. In 2020, we moved this forum to a virtual platform.

Recognizing the need for financial support to help grassroots initiatives scale, we added skills-building, project pitching, and sub-grant components from RR 2021 to 2024. We brought project leaders together for the RR Summit to learn more about each others' work and build a nation-wide network of Reimagineers.

Participants

2019-2024: 126 grassroots initiatives with circular economy and waste management solutions participated in the awareness-raising and skills-building program

How we made waves

Over PhP3 million worth of sub-grants to support 16 projects

487,026.61 kg of waste collected for recycling (2022-2023)

Partners

Coca-Cola Far East Limited and Coca-Cola Foundation Philippines