Metro Manila Linis-Ganda, Inc.

Manila, Philippines

Primary information

Year formed

1983

Registered in

1983

Language

English

Number of groups

17

Number of members

1,500

Type of members

Waste picker support organization

Occupation of members

Waste pickers

Type of Organization

Non governmental organization

Organizational Reach

Local

Workplace of members

Street

Objectives

The organization preserves the environment by encouraging the segregation of garbage in the kitchen into: compostable, recyclable, and residual, to reduce air, water, and land pollution, reduce the demand for water and energy used in processing paper, plastics, bottles, and metals, and to save trees in the forest, oil under the sea, iron ore in the mountains, and sand on the beach.

Women composition

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Benefits

Services

Types of materials

Cans, Metals, Paper and cardboard, Plastics

Complementary Information

Information source

WORD, Lucia Fernandez 24/11/2014

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