BEVERAGE FIRM STARTS URBAN GARDENING PROJECT
ARC Refreshments Corp. Inc. recently launched its My Gulay Garden project that promotes the use of recycled RC Cola PET bottles as plant containers to grow vegetables in urban areas, with the company’s employees starting the initiative.
“We are happy to announce the launch of our My Gulay Garden project in order to add to our government’s call towards food security amid the pandemic. Since more than a month ago, we have engaged all our plants nationwide to do waste composting and vegetable gardening utilizing our recycled PET bottles,” said Butch Aves, ARC Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President.
“All our personnel are also expected to learn from our project to be able to do the same in their homes,” he added.
ARC also launched a digital training project to teach their employees on how they can reuse and recycle plastic bottles for their urban gardening initiatives. Thus. ARC employees across the country underwent trainings on the methods of composting kitchen waste, yard waste, wastewater treatment sludge and other biodegradable waste.
ARC employees are now growing varieties vegetables like tomatoes, eggplant, okra,sili,pechay,mustasa, and herbs like basil, peppermint, tarragon and java mint.
The company encouraged its employees to be a force in their own communities by setting an example of how to reuse and recycle plastic bottles for agricultural use. Also,
ARC employees can show their neighbors techniques and strategies on how to start their own vegetable garden, harvest fresh food for their daily needs, and develop a resilient and self-sufficient community.
“We commit to help propagate the project publicly so that more of our countrymen, especially those from the urban areas, can produce their own healthy food during the pandemic, with the hope for it to become sustainable and help achieve food security,” Aves said.