Mighty Corp, a Bulacan based tobacco manufacturer has donated 45,000 ecobags to the residents of First District of Bulacan. This initiative is to help reduce the incidence of flooding in the province.
The ecobags is made of durable fabric like canvas or woven synthetic fibers. With its environment-friendly substitute to single-use plastic bags, which are known to clog waterways, resulting to floodings. It can be used numerous times and it will not clog waterways the way plastics do.
For the past decades, flash floods is one of the serious problem in Bulacan. The province which serves as home to Angat, Bustos and Ipo dams. And also the pathway of typhoons during the rainy season.
Meanwhile, Mighty launched the Lingkod Kalikasan Ecobag, a joint project of Bulacan’s First District, Lingkod Movement and Wongchuking Foundation. It aims to reduce flooding by cutting down on the use of plastic bags.
According to Jonathan Sy-Alvarado, representing Rep Ma. Victoria Sy-Alvarado of Bulacan’s 1st District he said that each household in the district would each receive one ecobag for use in the distribution and storage of relief goods like rice, bottled water and canned food during calamities. In return, recipients should donate their plastic bags for recycling into useful products such as hollow blocks.
“Every time relief operations for calamities are ongoing, people should use their own ecobags ,” said Alvarado. The said program was included in the Corporate Social Responsibility program of the Wongchuking family, who owns and operates Mighty Corporation.
Alvarado praised Mighty for their continuous effort in providing good livelihood to the province, which has helped a lot of people as well as their respective families.
The ecobags is made of durable fabric like canvas or woven synthetic fibers. With its environment-friendly substitute to single-use plastic bags, which are known to clog waterways, resulting to floodings. It can be used numerous times and it will not clog waterways the way plastics do.
For the past decades, flash floods is one of the serious problem in Bulacan. The province which serves as home to Angat, Bustos and Ipo dams. And also the pathway of typhoons during the rainy season.
Meanwhile, Mighty launched the Lingkod Kalikasan Ecobag, a joint project of Bulacan’s First District, Lingkod Movement and Wongchuking Foundation. It aims to reduce flooding by cutting down on the use of plastic bags.
According to Jonathan Sy-Alvarado, representing Rep Ma. Victoria Sy-Alvarado of Bulacan’s 1st District he said that each household in the district would each receive one ecobag for use in the distribution and storage of relief goods like rice, bottled water and canned food during calamities. In return, recipients should donate their plastic bags for recycling into useful products such as hollow blocks.
“Every time relief operations for calamities are ongoing, people should use their own ecobags ,” said Alvarado. The said program was included in the Corporate Social Responsibility program of the Wongchuking family, who owns and operates Mighty Corporation.
Alvarado praised Mighty for their continuous effort in providing good livelihood to the province, which has helped a lot of people as well as their respective families.