RESORTS World Manila’s (RWM) employees are walking the environmental talk through the company’s Live and Love Green program.
The program has already helped recover over 11 tons of recyclable materials for 2016. Now on its third year, RWM has collected over 65 tons of recyclables, such as cartons, used papers, aluminum cans, PET bottles, tarpaulins and old tires.
The collected recyclables, which would otherwise have just been discarded in a landfill, are donated to the Tzu Chi Foundation Philippines. There, the materials are processed and made into useful items—such as shirts and blankets—to be used in disaster-relief drives.
“RWM is an environmentally sustainable organization that values the importance of conserving resources, preserving nature for the next generations, and reaching out to victims of calamities,” said Owen Cammayo, RWM director for Corporate Communications.
“We recognize that true corporate environmental advocacy can only be achieved with an interested and involved work force. Through programs like Live and Love Green, we are able to help instill genuine advocacy in our employees by encouraging them to be eco-aware both at work and at home.” Apart from its recycling efforts, RWM also recently participated in eco-awareness activities at the La Mesa Nature Reserve in Quezon City in cooperation with ABS-CBN Lingkod Kapamilya Foundation Inc.’s Bantay Kalikasan Program.
Volunteer employees were given a crash course on environmental appreciation and conservation through a watershed trek, a lecture on local environmental efforts, and hands-on germinant planting. Through the activity, 200 seedlings of native tree species will be grown and later transferred to an RWM-adopted arboretum.
These initiatives are part of RWM’s League of Volunteer Employees Program designed to create a culture of volunteerism aligned with the company’s corporate social responsibility thrusts of promoting Philippine Tourism and the Arts, Social Development and Environmental Sustainability.