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IN PHOTO (Left to right): SM Supermalls Vice President Liza Silerio, SM Prime Chairman of the Executive Committee Hans T. Sy, GUUN Chief Executive Officer Shinji Fujieda, GUUN Philippine Branch Senior Managing Director and General Manager Takeshi Konishi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Leading real estate developer in Southeast Asia, SM Prime Holdings, Inc. (SM Prime) recently signed a memorandum of understanding with Japan\u2019s GUUN Co. Ltd. to explore a potential partnership to implement waste management solutions by recycling waste paper and plastics as an alternative source of energy called \u2018fluff fuel\u2019.<\/p>\n

Fluff Fuels are one type of RDF (Refuse Derived Fuel) which are produced from shredded and compressed plastics, papers, and fibers. These are used\u00a0as fuels in cement manufacturing, paper mill companies, or power companies in Japan.<\/p>\n

SM Prime Chairman of the Executive Committee Hans T. Sy is positive that a partnership with GUUN will contribute to the waste reduction goals of the country. \u201cToday, Japan\u2019s waste management and recycling technology is among the most advanced in the world,\u201d he said. \u201cThere is no better partner for SM because we do not just talk about being big, we make sure we do it; we do not talk about being environment friendly but we do take bold steps to save the environment. I am looking forward to growing with GUUN as among leaders in solving environmental issues in the Philippines.\u201d<\/p>\n

GUUN Co., Ltd., founded in March 2001<\/a> and headquartered in Yokohama City, Japan, piloted the production of fluff fuel from plastic waste in Inayawan, Cebu in 2014<\/a> and recently inaugurated its P200-million, 2,400-square meter waste recycling plant in Tayud, Consolacion, Cebu.<\/p>\n

Since then, Japan\u2019s Ministry of the Environment has adopted GUUN\u2019s waste-to-fuel technology as a model for advanced low-carbon technology innovation for further deployment in developing countries.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis will be a milestone partnership for us,\u201d GUNN Chief Executive Officer Shinji Fujieda said after the signing ceremony. “I understand very much how important waste management is for SM and for the Philippines and we look forward to more projects we can do with the properties of SM Prime.\u201d<\/p>\n

SM Prime\u2019s initiatives for waste management include waste reduction and effective waste collection and segregation. Over the years, it has implemented programs such as Trash to Cash, Plastic Waste Collection, and E-Waste Collection that have contributed to reducing the total solid waste generation across its real estate portfolio.<\/p>\n

Through its pioneering Trash to Cash recycling market, SM Prime has collected and recycled 1.4M kg of plastics, paper, metals, and others in 2022<\/a>. \u201cWe have saved 16,766 trees from the 986,222 kg of paper recycled,\u201d SM Prime disclosed in its 2022<\/a> Integrated Report to shareholders.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, SM\u2019s Plastic Waste Collection program, a partnership with the Plastic Credit Exchange that was launched in February 2021<\/a>, has accumulated 42,541kg of plastic waste from 14 mall sites. Also present in all its 83 SM Supermalls is the E-Waste Collection program for the responsible disposal of WEEE (Waste from Electrical and Electronic Equipment). This drive has helped process close to 7,000 kilograms of e-waste.<\/p>\n

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Leading real estate developer in Southeast Asia, SM Prime Holdings, Inc. (SM Prime) recently signed a memorandum of understanding with Japan\u2019s GUUN Co. Ltd. to explore a potential partnership to implement waste management solutions by recycling waste paper and plastics as an alternative source of energy called \u2018fluff fuel\u2019. Fluff Fuels are one type of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":8968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-uncategorized"],"pageone_source":{"pageone_source":"Seeded, SM","author_name":"Reylen Castro"},"_pageone_source":"Seeded, SM","zyndk8_nxtgen_metadata":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/splashedout.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/splashedout.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/splashedout.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/splashedout.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/splashedout.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/splashedout.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/splashedout.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/splashedout.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/splashedout.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/splashedout.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}