May 3, 2021

NutriAsia and Del Monte team up to donate upcycled school chairs under Share-A-Chair initiative

Jose Bastida Elementary School in Brgy.  1
NutriAsia and Del Monte Philippines, Inc. have partnered for Share-a-Chair, an advocacy program wherein plastic waste materials from their offices and plants are collected and upcycled into school furnishings. Each school received 50 pieces armchairs and a teacher’s table with chair. 


NutriAsia and Del Monte team up to donate upcycled school chairs under   Share-A-Chair initiative


Keeping with its advocacies of helping Filipino communities in need and minimizing the impact of plastic waste, NutriAsia, Inc. and Del Monte Philippines, Inc. partnered together to donate upcycled plastic school chairs to several public elementary schools.

Puerto Elementary, Cagayan de Oro City 1

This was done through the Share-a-Chair initiative, a program started by NutriAsia and Del Monte in which the companies collect single-use plastic waste from its different offices and plant sites to turn them into school chairs and other needed furniture for underprivileged public schools and communities. It is the culmination of the two companies’ partnership forged to help the Department of Education address the perennial shortage of school chairs. 

NutriAsia and Del Monte collected 19.3 metric tons of plastic waste from their offices and plants for a period of six months. Part of this collection went to the Share-a-Chair donation of 600 school chairs and teachers’ tables distributed to 12 different partner schools in Bukidnon, Cagayan de Oro City, Misamis Oriental, and Davao that NutriAsia and Del Monte have chosen for the program. 


Share a Chair and Table 1

NutriAsia and Del Monte then partnered with Envirotech Waste Recycling, Inc., a local company with ground-breaking technology to upcycle the collected plastic waste into the furnishings. Upcycling is the process of transforming waste and discarded materials into useable items which is Envirotech’s field of expertise.

Through the Share-a-Chair program and their spirit of resourcefulness, NutriAsia and Del Monte aim to continue upcycling plastic waste and creating more school chairs to be donated to various partner schools across the country. This way, the companies can fulfill their goals of assisting underprivileged Filipino communities and reducing the negative environmental impact of plastic.

3 comments:

  1. KAREN JOY DABAN
    PASIG CITY

    SO GENEROUS NAMAN PO NG NUTRI ASIA AT DEL MONTE..MORE BLESSINGS PO SA INYO..GOBLESS

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  2. Salute to NutriAsia & Del Monte di pa rin nakakalimot magbayanihan🙂

    -Monica Oliveros
    -Quezon City

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  3. Nakakamiss ang old days. Sana maibalik nadin ang pag i school ng mga bata

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