City of Mandaluyong · Environmental Management Department
Mandaluyong,
Malinis Araw-Araw
Kababaihan ang Katuwang sa Kalinisan
The city's own clean-up programme — and Trash to Cashback, where sorted waste becomes real, redeemable value for the family that sorted it.
The challenge
The law was never the problem.
The daily habit is.
RA 9003 (2000)
The Ecological Solid Waste Management Act makes the barangay the front line of segregation and diversion — and asks for records to prove it.
Ordinance 668, s. 2017
Mandaluyong's own rule: no one puts waste out before the collection arrives. The policy is clear; the daily habit is the work.
The gap
No reason for a household to sort, and no measure of what was diverted. That is where Trash to Cashback begins.
residents live in the eight barangays of the first phase — that is the size of the opportunity.
The answer
Five pillars. One closed loop.
1 / 5
Segregate
Sort at home: paper, plastic, glass. Clean and dry.
2 / 5
Exchange
Bring it to the barangay point and have it weighed.
3 / 5
Redeem
Redeem Environmental Points at partner stores.
4 / 5
Collect
Collected and transferred — every kilo on record.
5 / 5
Recycle
On to the recycler, and back as new material.
Take away any one pillar and the loop stops turning. Trash to Cashback is an incentivised segregation-at-source programme for residents, barangays, businesses, and the buyers of recovered material — all at once.
The proof
Mandaluyong is not starting at zero.
Every figure here comes from a weighed, recorded exchange — measured, never estimated.
Source: TTCB Mandaluyong Command Center — certified metrics, 5 October 2026
Kababaihan ang katuwang sa kalinisan
Eight out of eight.
Every one of them led by a woman.
Not a symbol. These are the people who will run the programme in their own communities — the mobilisation, the schedule, and the conversation on every street. 143,689 residents across the eight.
Merlyn Solano Espiritu
Hagdang Bato Itaas · 10,303
Maria Corazon "G" De Castro Abalos
Highway Hills · 49,455
Cynthia Magsisi Caluya
Malamig · 14,489
Elizabeth Paler-Cruz
New Zañiga · 8,872
Erika Javier (Acting)
Old Zañiga · 5,435
Nerissa Yumang Garcia
Plainview · 33,472
Joan Batan Pintag
San Jose · 7,888
Margarita Ongsiako Tan-Climaco
Wack-Wack Greenhills East · 13,775
Population: 2024 POPCEN, as reported by CEMD
For the resident
How it works for an Eco-Warrior
1
Sort at home
Paper, plastic, glass — clean and dry.
2
Bring & weigh
At the barangay point; recorded on the spot.
3
Open the app
TTCB Eco-Warrior holds your EP and full history.
4
Convert
Pick goods, convert EP with your PIN — a Store Pass is issued.
5
Redeem
Show the Store Pass; the shop scans it and hands over the goods.
Redeemable at partner stores — a reward, not money. In Mandaluyong, 200,525 kg became 354,276 EP: about 1.8 EP per kilo on average, varying by material. A Store Pass is locked to the store you chose and has a time limit; anything unused returns to your EP.
The community
Mandaluyong’s own programme.
MandaLINIS — empowering every barangay through waste segregation, circular economy and climate resilience. Week after week, barangay by barangay, the same five pillars, run by the people who live there.
On the ground
What BEST / TTCB runs
- Orientation & IEC
- In every barangay before the first exchange — and the partner stores briefed as front-line advocates.
- The exchange points
- Trained crew weigh each material, encode it, tag the source, and credit EP on the spot — at a fixed centre or a weekly pop-up.
- Scales & the record
- Calibrated weighing and the digital system at every point, so every kilo is measured, never estimated.
- Collection & transfer
- BEST's own trucks bring the material in, and every kilo is tracked from batch to retirement.
- Stores & the monthly report
- Sign up partner stores and set their lists — then hand CEMD and each Punong Barangay their kilos, exchanges and EP.
Two ways to run a point: a permanent exchange centre in the barangay, or a weekly pop-up where there is no space. Six exchange points are on record — three live and three ready to reopen as the barangays come on.
The map
Mandaluyong, barangay by barangay
Tap or hover to explore
The 8 green barangays are the first phase. Dots are where recyclables are weighed and where points are redeemed.
Boundaries: PSA / PSGC barangays (via philippines-json-maps). Points & outlets: TTCB Mandaluyong Command Center & bXTRA Partners directory, 2026.
For the neighbourhood store
No fee to join.
No cut of your sales.
Everything a warrior redeems is credited to you in full. Hold it as store value at no cost — or cash out your points or vouchers for a flat ₱20 per cash-out.
STEP 1
Sign up
Store name, address and contact. No joining fee.
STEP 2
Choose 5 products
Upload five products and their prices. You decide which.
STEP 3
Scan & get paid
Scan the Store Pass, hand over the goods, and the programme pays you.
outlets are already registered in Mandaluyong — from TTCB Mart to the small shop on the corner. You would not be the first to try it.
Already earning in Mandaluyong · shop them on bXTRA.ph
Live storefronts shown above · bXTRA Partners directory, Mandaluyong, 2026
The app · the redemption side
Three surfaces. One record.
This is the redemption side of the programme — how Environmental Points become goods. Earning happens at the exchange points on the map; here is what a warrior, a store, and the programme see when points are redeemed.
For the resident · TTCB Eco-Warrior
Redeem in Mandaluyong
For the shop · Eco-Store
Scan the Warrior's Store Pass
For the programme & LGU · TTCB Admin
Redemptions by store
Interface preview · the app and Store Pass launch with the programme on 15 October 2026. Warrior balance illustrative; the TTCB Mart figures are from the live directory.
All three read from the same redemption record. What the Eco-Warrior converts, the store accepts, and the programme pays out — one ledger, no separate list.
Two ways in. The national bXTRA app already lets anyone in Mandaluyong shop these partner stores and earn bXTRA Cashback. And for this programme, a dedicated app launches with it on 15 October — Trash to Cashback for Mandaluyong, by TTCB — the three surfaces above, built around the city's own exchange points and the eight barangays.
Every kilo keeps its record
Batch → Lot → Retirement
1 / 6
Batch
Transactions from the sites are grouped.
2 / 6
Transfer
Loaded and tracked against the actual quantity.
3 / 6
Verify
Expected against actual, before anything proceeds.
4 / 6
Lot
Each verified batch gets its own Lot ID.
5 / 6
Sale
The inventoried lot is sold to a recycler.
6 / 6
Retire
Formally retired, still carrying its origin batch.
Why it matters. Under RA 11898, the EPR Act of 2022, producers answerable for their plastic packaging need evidence — a record, verification, an audit — and that can only be made where the material is weighed: in the barangay. EPR should strengthen the system a city already has, not build a parallel one. The eight barangays are that system.
Take part
There's a place in the loop
for everyone in Mandaluyong.
Whoever you are — a family, a barangay, a store, a school, or the city — here is how you join and what you get. This is a working guide; your Mandaluyong team keeps the details current for each barangay.
Residents & households
Become an Eco-Warrior
Sort at home, bring your recyclables to your barangay's exchange point, earn Environmental Points, and redeem them for goods.
How to start
Join at your barangay's first exchange day.Barangay officials
Host the exchange
Mobilise your residents and host the exchange point. Every kilo is recorded under your barangay — ready for RA 9003 reporting.
How to start
Your orientation with CEMD and BEST / TTCB.Local businesses
Become a TTCB Eco-Store
Upload your products and get seen by every Eco-Warrior in Mandaluyong. No joining fee, no cut of your sales.
How to start
Sign up online →Schools
Lead as a Champion of Change
Enrol your school and run a segregation drive with your students — turning a lesson into real recovered material.
How to start
Reach the TTCB schools team.Buildings, HOAs & estates
Run a community account
Condos, subdivisions and homeowner associations can run one account that represents a whole building of families.
How to start
Ask your barangay or the TTCB team.The city & CEMD
See it, certify it
Every barangay's kilos, exchanges and EP on one dashboard — with a certified monthly report for the programme and the LGU.
Status
Live for the Mandaluyong Command Center.The partners
Who holds what
- CEMD
- City Environmental Management Department — leads the programme, explains Mandaluyong, Malinis Araw-Araw, and works directly with the barangays.
- BEST / Trash to Cashback
- IEC and orientation; technical guidance; the existing system for recording and monitoring every activity.
- IPMCDC
- Coordination, organisation and implementation support.
- Barangay
- The implementer on the ground: mobilisation, local coordination, and carrying out what was agreed.
The road
From coordination to the first kilo
Sept–October
Preparation
CEMD coordinates with the eight barangays; the facility, materials and IEC are prepared.
October
Orientation
Barangay by barangay — CEMD on the concept, BEST / TTCB on the process and the detail.
15 October
Grand Launching
With the City Mayor, CEMD, and all eight Punong Barangay.
First month
Operations
The first exchange days, weekly data, and the first monthly report.
of all Mandaluyong Eco-Warriors came back more than once. The measure of the first month is not the turnout — it is the return.