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WeGen's WeGreen Program


WeGen continues with its efforts to be a renewable energy company that really walks the talk. Despite the setbacks caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, WeGen remains true to its vision to be a relevant voice in the renewable energy industry as well as environmental advocacy community.


As a company that sets its goals beyond meeting its bottomline targets, WeGen genuinely cares for the environment and seeks to make meaningful contributions to efforts to protect it. By installing top-of-the-line solar PV systems in businesses and homes, WeGen promotes the use of clean, safe, and renewable energy from the sun as against the use of dirty energy sources.


We’re also embarking on a comprehensive quality management campaign to increase the efficiency of our operations to minimize if not totally eradicate waste in terms of company time, effort, and resources. We actively unite with different partners and stakeholders to convince more and more Filipinos to make the shift to solar, and to do more to stop the worsening of the climate emergency.


Our Immediate Environmental Context

The sorry state of our environment has made Filipinos very vulnerable to the coronavirus pandemic and to many natural calamities like typhoons and earthquakes. In fact, many in the local community of environmental groups are united in pointing out that the Philippines is currently facing the “worst ecological crisis.”


Although the coronavirus crisis has a zoonotic origin, deforestation and urbanization played a role in its spread. Due to deforestation, animals are forced out of their natural habitat. The carriers of the virus made its way to the urban areas.


Urban areas, which are densely populated, are more vulnerable to hazards and pandemics. Urbanization in the Philippines is always associated with poverty and diseases.


Based on government statistics on population and Metro Manila homes, three of 10 homes in Metro Manila aren't big enough for the prescribed physical distancing. This figure doesn't include cases of many different families living under one roof. With Metro Manila’s cramped homes and population, it’s impossible to practice physical distancing as a containment measure against the coronavirus.


The coronavirus crisis has ecological roots, and environmental concerns such as land use changes and urbanization have hindered the people from addressing the coronavirus crisis properly.


Tragically, these ecological issues are not properly addressed by government priorities. In fact, in the last 40 years, it is the profit-motivated economic activities of few corporations, few individuals that have brought about this ecological crisis.


The Garbage Situation

We are also facing very serious problems when it comes to waste disposal. Freedom Island in Paranaque is practically overwhelmed by garbage. Considered as the coastal frontier in Metro Manila, Freedom Island provides refuge to migratory birds; its thick mangroves serve as a natural typhoon barrier. Despite its importance, thousands of empty plastic water and soda bottles practically cover the area of the island, along with millions of small shampoo, toothpaste and condiment sachets litter the coastline.


This is just one glaring proof of the massive garbage problem the Philippines faces. The country is the third worst ocean plastic polluter in the world, after China and Indonesia.

According to reports, Filipinos and the country’s industries generate an estimated 43,684 tons of garbage daily, including 4,609 tons of plastic waste, but there’s a severe lack of proper disposal facilities. Trash is piling up on land, clogging coastlines, spilling into the sea, and travelling to remote corners of the planet as the Philippines fails to meet targets for improved waste management that it signed into law 18 years ago.

The national government says it has done all it can, and that the solution should come from the local governments.

Environmental advocates, however, disagree: the national government can and should do more, including pressuring multinational corporations to change their products and how they are packaged.


Ordinary people can also do a lot more to protect the environment.


The WeGen WeGreen Program


The WeGreen Program is WeGen’s effort to walk the talk when it comes to being a company as well as a community that’s pro-environment. It’s a program that unites all the efforts and energies of its different units and departments to encourage environmental consciousness among the staff and management of WeGen. WeGreen’s overarching goal is to contribute to the WeGen’s development both as a profitable business that practices sustainable practices that have a positive impact on people’s lives and on the planet.


For now, WeGreen promotes a list of actionable steps that everyone in WeGen can do at the office and at home to help promote personal habits that consider the health of the environment. The environmental challenges the entire country faces are enormous, and we at WeGen want to do our share in overcoming them. We believe that great things start from small beginnings, and a little effort from everyone can make a big GREEN difference!

Bring Our Own Bag and Utensils


  • We can leave our utensils/reusable cups and eco bags in the office pantry/at desks after using and washing them so we won’t have to bring them every day. We can also bring our favorite mugs and water containers from home!

  • We can also bring tumblers both for use for water/coffee in the office and for when we buy coffee/milk tea outside

  • Let’s bring our own washable utensils for lunch, refuse the plastic ones when we buy food outside, and let’s make it a habit to always bring a bring a reusable, eco-bag /cup with us whenever we go out.

WeGen will be a No Plastic Zone!

No more plastic utensils, plastic bags, and plastic cups will be allowed inside the office.

We encourage everyone to stop bringing plastic utensils, unnecessary plastic bags, and plastic cups into the office.

We will be running an honesty system: rely on everyone’s cooperation. It will take some effort, but together, we can do this!

Recycling paper stations

Pure paper trash can go in designated baskets in the office so they can be sent for recycling. Even just donated to the manongs who collect used paper to sell.

Paperless Office policy (limit the use of paper to the most essential)

Plastic recycling: There will be a bin for recycling plastic bottles and weekly give this out to basureros who collect them.

· We will enforce a stricter segregation policy in the kitchen and in our trash cans in our work areas.

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