Day care parents recycling contest now on its 2nd year

Parents of children of Barangay 1 Day Care Center once again competed in a Recycling Contest to mark the Center’s 23rd Anniversary.

Left: A mother presenting a chime-like decore from rotating fan blade with empty bullet casings. Top-right: Flower from plastic drinking straw sit side by side with an origami flower from recycled paper. Bottom-right: A turtle coin bank from coconut shell.

Above: Judges going over a group entry. Below-left: Tin can robot with spoon and fork for limbs.  Below-right: plastic roses from melted plastic.

Above: Recycling contest entries on display during Barangay 1 Day Care Center 23rd Anniversary celebration. Bottom-left: Drinking straw weaved into a bag. Bottom-right: Origami decorative basket from recycled paper.

The contest is the brainchild of the Day Care Center teacher Ms. Beth Gernade and aims to promote solid waste management among the Day Care Center parents.

Just like last year, the parents were divided into groups and tasked to recycle items found in their household.

Group entries were judged according to originality (40%), craftmanship (30%), and creativity and uniqueness (30%).


“Craftmanship improved this year and the competition was stiff,” said Ms. Fe Tacogdoy, town's Tourism Officer and this year’s contest chief judge.

“We have seen new items this year. There was an electric fan rotating blade turned into a chime-like decoration using empty bullet casings and there is this robot-like decoration made from tin can,” she added.

This year’s output ranged from household decorations from paper or plastic straw, desk organizers from plastic bottles or tin caps, rags from recycled cloth, slippers and bags.

Mothers recycle for day care center anniv

Mothers participated in Barangay 1 Day Care Centers recycling contest in celebration of the Center's 22nd Anniversary.

Mothers were divided into groups and tasked to recycle items found in their household.

 Each of the group were then asked to submit their best recycled item.


The official entries were judged according to originality (40%), craftmanship (30%), and creativity and uniqueness (30%).

The contest is the brainchild of the Day Care Center teacher Ms. Beth Gernade and aims to promote solid waste management among the mothers.

The output of the mothers range from recycled paper, plastic straw and bottles into household decorations, bags from foil packs, desk organizer from floppy disks and candle holder from plastic bottle.

The winner of the contest was a castle made of recycle cardboard, plastic bottle and styrofoam.


This year's anniversary theme is "Day Care for 22 years in delivering services to the community must go on."

Barangay 1 Day Care Center has been a strong advocate of solid waste management in San Jose de Buenavista, Antique.

Barangays receive mobile garbage bins for SWM

Mayor Rony Molina with Brgy. 4 Punong Barangay Pedro Rios III and officials. Photo by Michael Tonding

Four poblacion barangays of San Jose de Buenavista received mobile garbage bins for solid waste management.

Punong Barangays with kagawad of Barangays 2, 4, 6 and 8 received mobile garbage bins with capacity of six cubic meters.

This project is in line with the Solid Waste Management Program of the municipal government.

MENRO-Designated Cornelius Yanga announcing beneficiaries of the project. Photo by Michael Tonding

Under the Solid Waste Management Program, barangays are encouraged to set up their Material Recovery Facility. However, some barangays with no available lots to place the MRFs opted to fabricate mobile garbage bins to collect wastes.

Mobile garbage bin. Photo by Michael Tonding

The mobile garbage bins will be attached to the barangay’s multi-cabs and do rounds in their respective barangay to collect solid wastes. Garbage collection will be synchronized with the municipal garbage truck collection such that waste collected will be brought to the Municipal dumpsite.

According to Municipal Environment and Natural Resource Officer Cornelius Yanga, the recipient barangays will still implement the “no segregation, no collection” policy. (sjdb_mio)