Campaign turns empty sachets into cement bricks

MANILA, Philippines - An environment sustainability campaign has converted more than 12 million sachets of a laundry detergent into thousands of cement pavers donated to various schools nationwide.

Top officials of Unilever Philippines, Smart Communications and Cebuana Lhuillier – proponents of the Sachet Recovery Program – on Wednesday launched the third year of the campaign at Mandaluyong Elementary School in Mandaluyong City.

Seven thousand pavers were donated to Mandaluyong Elementary School.

Some of the pavers were also used as foundation of an environment-friendly laundry facility in Mayora, Leyte, which was affected by Super Typhoon Yolanda in November 2013.

The campaign enables consumers to exchange sachets of Surf products for free Smart texts at Cebuana Lhuillier branches nationwide. Every empty sachet of any Surf product can be converted to 10 free Smart texts.