Have empty PET bottles piling up at home? You can put them to better use by dropping them off at participating Shell Select stores, thanks to the renewed partnership between Coca-Cola Europacific Aboitiz Philippines (CCEAP) and Shell Pilipinas.
Under their Tapon to Ipon program, nearly 30 participating Shell Select locations across Metro Manila and Bacolod City will serve as collection points for used clear PET bottles. The initiative builds on the two companies’ collaboration, which began in 2023, to make proper bottle segregation and recycling more accessible to consumers.
“At Coca-Cola, we believe that partnerships play an important role in driving meaningful and lasting impact in the communities we serve. Since 2023, our collaboration with Shell has made it easier for consumers to take part in PET bottle collection and recycling through convenient drop-off points at Shell Select stores,” said Atty. Marc Cruz Cox, Stakeholder Relations Director of CCEAP.
The program is implemented with Basic Environmental Systems and Technologies, Inc. (BEST), which collects the deposited bottles and brings them to PETValue Philippines, the country’s pioneering bottle-to-bottle recycling facility.
A joint venture between CCEAP and global sustainable chemicals company Indorama Ventures, PETValue Philippines processes used PET bottles into food-grade recycled polyethylene terephthalate (rPET). This material can then be used to manufacture new beverage bottles, giving discarded plastic another purpose.
