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Plastic Flamingo upcycles plastic sachets in Muntinlupa

THE Plastic Flamingo (PLAF), with the support of the CMA CGM Group, a world leader in shipping and logistics, launches a new recycling line at the PLAF upcycling factory in Muntinlupa to upcycle the hard-to-recycle plastic sachet in the Philippines.

This new recycling line creates an incentive for waste collectors to pick up the discarded plastic packaging instead of leaving them behind as litter that collects on the streets in sewers and spills into rivers and oceans. This launch marks a milestone as part of CMA CGM and PLAF's partnership, which aims to collect 120 metric tons of plastic waste to be upcycled in Metro Manila within a year.

Francois Lesage, founder of the Plastic Flamingo, and Yeya Berjaoui, general manager of CMA CGM Philippines, sign a partnership that prevents plastics pollution from reaching seas and oceans by upcycling them into new products. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO