Trash To Cash: Recycling Market at SM Supermalls

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Do you have useless junk accumulating at home or in your office? When are you planning to get rid of them? I suggest that you do it now and convert your trash to cash by joining the Recycling Market events at SM Supermalls.

The Waste Market Day happens every first Saturday of the month, from 8:00 AM to 2:00 PM at the open parking in every SM Supermall. (Update: It’s now every first Friday and Saturday of the month) You can just come and bring all your trash and junk and exchange them for useful items and cash. This event is sponsored by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources and the SM Group of Companies, in partnership with the Philippine Business for the Environment

What can you trade or sell at the waste market?

Items you can trade:

Scrap paper and cardboard - for bathroom tissue, table napkins, bond paper and notebooks.
Empty ink and toner cartridge - for quality remanufactured ones
Plastic bottles and plastic scraps - for plastic household items like hangers, basins and pails
Used lead batteries (from cars, UPS and voltage regulators) - for car check-up coupons

Items you can sell:

Used PET bottles (containers of softdrinks and mineral water bottles)
Aluminum and tin cans
Junk electrical appliance, specially computer monitors

Items you can just drop off:

Polystyrene
Styrofoam
Junk cellphones and cellphone batteries

This project is in support of Republic Act 9003 or the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000. The act calls for “practical applications of environmentally sound techniques of waste minimization such as segregation, recycling, resource recovery, re-use and composting.”

For more information, you may contact the administration of the SM Supermall nearest you.

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12 Responses to “Trash To Cash: Recycling Market at SM Supermalls”

issa on March 8th, 2008 at 10:23 am

been joining their waste fair since late last year. you help the environment & you earn too! =)

p.s. what’s wrong with entrecard? i can’t drop my card!
Wangbu on March 9th, 2008 at 7:46 am

Living far from Manila, I only knew about this idea through your blog. I hope other commercial establishments will follow such an environmentalistic example from SM.
itot54joni on March 9th, 2008 at 11:37 am

ok yan ah.tamang tama gusto ko na itapon yun luma kong pc.kaso wala ata niyan dine sa SM malapit smin.baka sa manila laang yan.
Fitz on March 9th, 2008 at 4:04 pm

@issa
me too, i joined their waste fair late last year and has been a regular ever since.

@wangbu and itot54joni
i think that this is a nationwide activity, so this includes your local SM branches there in Iloilo and Batangas
bluep on March 9th, 2008 at 6:44 pm

our place is just 2 Km away from SM in our place. This is great since we always have recycle bin at the back of our house. What I like about SM is that they are not just a commercial conglomerate but they also try to mix their industry in the efforts to preserve the environment. Like the Sm in Baguio, instead of using aircondition, they made the place open air. Dumaan lang fitz. Thanks for visiting from time to time. I’ve added you on my roll so that I can visit here often.

Pax et bonum
Fitz on March 9th, 2008 at 10:52 pm

Thanks bluepanjeet for visiting and for adding me to your roll. I discovered your blog through Ambo and have become a subscriber. Keep up the good work and more power to your blog.
jayl on April 28th, 2008 at 2:46 pm

hi. tanong ko lang kung pwede ang mga lumang electronics, like betamax and computer parts? thanks thanks.
Fitz on April 28th, 2008 at 2:58 pm

Hi jayl. Yes, you can bring those but they’ll just be weighed for the metal parts and not as an appliance. That’s the case when I went one time with a broken VHS player. I also remember one of the coordinators saying that they don’t always accept old electronic appliances. I suggest that you bring those anyway.

As for the computer parts, are those still working? Why not sell them in TipidPC instead? If not, then bring those as well to the waste market.

Hope this helps.
jayl on April 28th, 2008 at 8:07 pm

thanks much fitz! very informative blog! keep it up. will visit your blog every now and then. Godbless!
Fitz on April 28th, 2008 at 9:02 pm

No problem jayl, glad I could help. Thanks!