enabling sustainability - Aboitiz Power

A thousand hours for the planet
For Earth Day on April 22, 2010, Aboitiz business units poured
in a total of 1,084 hours, equivalent to 45 days, to care for the
planet and raise awareness on the need to properly manage its
fragile resources.
Aboitiz Group team members and officers celebrated Earth Day
by conducting clean-up drives in their host communities and
planting trees in nearby forests and watersheds in different areas
in the country.
AboitizPower’s Hedcor in Davao conducted a coastal clean-up,
while Hedcor Benguet cleaned up a nearby river and collected 30
sacks of litter.
AboitizPower Renewables Inc. (APRI), wholly owned subsidiary
of AboitizPower, led a coastal clean-up in Albay where its
Tiwi geothermal plant is located. APRI’s team members and
employees conducted a simultaneous clean-up of an abandoned
well site in Laguna where the Mak-Ban geothermal power plant
complex is located.
Apart from organizing a clean-up, Hedcor Inc. and Hedcor Sibulan
launched a Solid Waste Management Information Drive in the areas
where they operate. The activity was aimed at raising awareness
on proper waste disposal, waste segregation and recycling.
To show that there is money in waste, Hedcor organized Eco-
Markets in Baguio and Davao, where recyclable items from
waste—like plastic containers, bottles and paper—are bought.
Realizing that a day is not enough to care for the planet, Hedcor
decided to hold the Eco-Market Day every month. This sustains
the company’s efforts to raise awareness on the need to protect
the environment.
Amid the challenging economic conditions in 2010, few
companies would have had the strength to sustain its focus on
the environment. But the Aboitiz Group, driven by the passion for
a better world, used the ideals of Earth Day to fuel its day-to-day
activities to care for the planet.
Employees of SN Aboitiz Power, which operates hydropower
plants in Isabela, Ifugao and Benguet cleaned up the perimeter of
its dams.
Meanwhile, Makati-based team members marched to clean up
Luneta Park in Manila.
In Iloilo, representatives from City Savings Bank, 2GO and
Superferry joined forces to conduct a coastal clean-up.
In Cebu, Aboitiz Equity Ventures team members cleaned up Sitio
Lahing-Lahing in Mabolo, Cebu City.
Visayan Electric Company volunteers, on the other hand, cleanedup
in a community in Naga, Cebu, while Balamban-based, Cebu
Industrial Park Developers, Inc. and Metaphil conducted a joint
coastal clean-up activity.
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Number of business units that
participated
1,084
Total number of man-hours
volunteered for clean up
Total number of man-days
volunteered for clean up
Earth Day
clean up
Man-hour and Man-days reflect the total
time spent by all volunteers to do the clean-up
nationwide
ABOITIZ SUSTAINABILITY REPORT 2010
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