20 Tips for a Waste-Free New Year, According to Local Eco-Entrepreneurs

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It’s the start of a new year and a new decade, and our hearts are ever fervently hoping for the change we need in our world and in our lives. As you reflect on the year that was and is to come, make sustainable living and making greener choices part of your new year resolutions!

Here are 20 tips from eco-entrepreneurs on how to have a waste-free year.

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The inspiring tandem of Binalot and banana leaves

By BERNIE CAHILES-MAGKILAT

Little is known how the lowly banana leaves have helped ease the lives of many until the restaurant chain Binalot popularizes the use of the leaves as its food wrapper.

Entrepreneur Rommel Juan, CEO of Binalot Fiesta Food, Inc., saw the opportunity to provide livelihood to some families when he put up Binalot’s DAHON CSR program dubbed DAHON (Dangal at Hanapbuhay para sa Nayon).

Famous for its classic Filipino meals wrapped in banana leaves, Binalot provides livelihood for at least 30 families in Barangay Buhanginan in Nagcarlan, Laguna. From an initial 120 bundles of banana leaves in 2006 this number has grown to 300 bundles each week.

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