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.
A movement you can measure · live from the city ledger
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 Omnibus Solid Waste Management Code — the city’s comprehensive rules for segregation, collection and diversion. 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.
What those 210,541 kg were
Every figure here comes from a weighed, recorded exchange — measured, never estimated. All recyclable: no mixed waste.
Source: TTCB Mandaluyong Command Center — certified, all-time, as of 5 October 2026
Live status
Where the programme stands right now.
Centers · this month vs last
The eight launch barangays · tap one for its MBE-C center
Across the TTCB network · exchanges by city
Trash to Cashback runs in dozens of cities. Mandaluyong is one node in a much larger movement — here is where every active city stands this month.
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. 1 EP = ₱1 is a reference value; what a store gives for it can vary. In Mandaluyong, 210,541 kg became 404,994 EP: about 1.9 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.
Your value
EP and BCB, told straight.
Everything you earn is yours, tracked in your own bXTRA account. Two kinds sit side by side — here is the difference, plainly.
EP · Environmental Points
Earned by recycling.
What you earn at a Mandaluyong drop-off when your recyclables are weighed. 1 EP = ₱1 as a reference value (it can vary by store), redeemable at partner stores. Convert EP with your PIN to a store-locked Store Pass; the shop scans it to release the goods, and anything unused returns to your EP. A reward, not cash.
BCB · bXTRA Cashback
Earned across bXTRA.
Your wider bXTRA cashback, earned across the whole bXTRA network and shown in the same account. It travels with you beyond recycling — the broader value behind the card, sitting alongside the EP you earn here.
EP and BCB are yours, tracked in your own bXTRA account — the programme only ever adds to it. Nothing expires quietly: an unused Store Pass 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.
Make it a game
The Eco-Marathon
Trash to Cashback’s nationwide engagement programme — recycling turned into something you can play, on top of the everyday exchange. Join as a person, a family, a school, a barangay or a business, pick a path, and keep the habit going. Two ways in, one goal.
Eco-Challenges
Take on a time-bound challenge as an individual or a team — follow the mechanics, finish it, and earn your rewards. Sponsors can back a challenge and track it from their own dashboard.
Open
Eco-Challenges ↗Eco-Milestones
Set an environmental milestone and reach it over time — a goal a household, school or community works toward, measured by what you actually recover and record.
Open
Eco-Milestones ↗How to take part
1
Get the app
Download MyBasurero, or open trashtocashback.com.
2
Pick your path
Choose an Eco-Challenge or an Eco-Milestone.
3
Do the mechanics
Follow the steps set for your chosen activity.
4
Redeem
Finish, then redeem your rewards on the bXTRA PH App or at bxtra.ph.
Earn digital badges, Eco-Marathon bags, Environmental Points and more — the same EP you already earn at the exchange point, now with milestones to chase.
Why it works
Designed for behaviour change.
A law sets the rule; a habit does the work. Trash to Cashback is built to make segregation the easy, rewarding default — and to keep it going long after the launch. Five things make the habit stick.
01
Incentive
1 EP = ₱1 at partner stores. Sorting finally pays the household that sorts.
02
Measurement
Every kilo is weighed and recorded — progress a resident and a barangay can both see.
03
Routine
The same five pillars, every week, at a point in the barangay. A habit, not an event.
04
Play
The Eco-Marathon adds challenges, milestones and badges on top of the everyday exchange.
05
It sticks
In Mandaluyong, 62% of Eco-Warriors came back more than once — the real measure.
Reward the sort, record the proof, and the return follows. That loop — not a one-day drive — is what moves a city.
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
Every exchange, on the map.
6,180 exchanges across Mandaluyong’s centers — each one weighed, recorded, and tagged to where it happened. The map is sized by the real count at every site.
Exchanges by center
Every exchange is tagged to a center — each dot is sized by how many happened there. Green is live today; grey is a former site. Tap any dot for its kilos and EP. The 8 highlighted barangays are the first phase.
Boundaries: PSA / PSGC barangays (via philippines-json-maps). Exchanges, kilos & EP: TTCB Mandaluyong Command Center — certified, all-time, as of 5 October 2026. Per-center counts sum exactly to the city total.
For the neighbourhood store
No fee to join.
No cut of your sales.
Everything a warrior redeems is reimbursed to you in full — the programme pays you for the goods your customers redeemed. Keep it as credit in your account at no cost, or have it paid out to you for a flat ₱20 per payout.
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 reimbursed
Scan the Store Pass, hand over the goods, and the programme reimburses you in full.
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 technology
A digital record for every kilo.
Trash to Cashback runs on the bXTRA PH platform and the TTCB apps. Every exchange becomes a digital record — measured at the source, tied to the household, and tracked all the way to the recycler. That is what turns recovered waste into proof a city can audit, not an estimate on a form.
01
Measured
A calibrated scale at the point; the weight is encoded on the spot — never estimated.
02
Tagged
Each exchange is tied to the household and the barangay that brought it in.
03
Credited
Environmental Points post to the Eco-Warrior’s bXTRA account on the spot.
04
Converted
EP convert to a store-locked Store Pass with a PIN; the store scans it to release the goods. Unused value returns to EP.
05
Traced
Chain-of-custody from the collection point to the recycler — and a monthly report to CEMD and each Punong Barangay.
Because every kilo is weighed, tagged and tracked, the record stands up to an audit — the basis for EPR compliance and plastic-credit value, not just a tally. See the three surfaces that run it below.
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.
Next steps
Where to go from here.
Whatever brought you here — a resident, a store, a barangay, a partner — there is a next step.
Start as an Eco-Warrior
Create a My Basurero account, then bring your first sorted recyclables to the barangay point.
trashtocashback.com ↗ StoresBecome a TTCB Eco-Store
No fee to join and no cut of your sales. Upload five products and start redeeming.
Open the sign-up page → EveryoneJoin the Eco-Marathon
Take on an Eco-Challenge or set an Eco-Milestone — as a person, a family, a school or a barangay.
info.trashtocashback.com ↗ Eco-WarriorsRedeem on bXTRA
Browse the partner stores already earning in Mandaluyong and redeem your Environmental Points.
bxtra.ph ↗ Learn moreAbout the programme
What Trash to Cashback is, how it started, and where it runs across the Philippines.
About Trash to Cashback ↗ ContactTalk to the team
614 M. Lerma St., Brgy. New Zañiga, Mandaluyong City · +63 917 146 6753.
info@trashtocashback.com →
Araw-araw
A cleaner Mandaluyong isn’t a day. It’s a habit.
Sort today, bring it to your barangay point, and watch the city ledger move. Every kilo counts — and every kilo is counted.