Partners & About
A multi-stakeholder model for circular commerce.
refillka × Taguig is built on shared responsibility — no single partner carries the full weight. The City Government enables, ReCirca operates, NutriAsia supplies, Plastic Reboot funds, FDA/DOST observe, and CENRO mobilizes the community. Together they form the Philippines' first scalable community refilling infrastructure.
Transforming last-mile distribution through circular infrastructure.
refillka is ReCirca's flagship commercial arm — making refilling accessible and the obvious choice for every Filipino. The goal is direct: eliminate 1 billion sachets by 2030.
The Philippines generates an estimated 163 million sachets every day — the single largest driver of unrecoverable plastic waste. Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) under R.A. 11898 mandates that brand owners act, but no scalable community recovery infrastructure exists to make compliance real on the ground. refillka is building it.
Why now
EPR (R.A. 11898) places the legal obligation on brand owners — but obligation without infrastructure stalls. refillka turns the mandate into a working, community-embedded recovery system, starting with a city-led Monitored Field Study in Taguig.
Six partners, each within its mandate.
| Partner | Role | Primary contribution |
|---|---|---|
| Taguig City Government | Enabling partner & institutional anchor | Space, container vans, institutional procurement, mayoral endorsement, CENRO workforce |
| ReCirca / refillka | Platform operator & commercial manager | Facility ops, ARP onboarding, product logistics, data, revolving-fund admin |
| NutriAsia | Anchor brand partner | Product supply at refilling price (Datu Puti, Golden Fiesta), QA/handling SOPs, brand credibility |
| UNIDO / Plastic Reboot Program | Funding & program legitimacy | Equipment funding, regulatory liaison, international reporting (GEF-UNIDO-DENR) |
| FDA / DOST | Regulatory observation | Field-study framework endorsement; National Refilling Standards development |
| CENRO Taguig 1,000 workers | Community infrastructure | Store profiling, monitoring, data collection, reverse logistics, mobilization |
A shared-responsibility model.
No single partner bears the full weight of the program. Each contributes within its mandate — the City enables and procures, ReCirca operates the commercial platform, NutriAsia supplies and assures product quality, Plastic Reboot funds equipment and provides international legitimacy, FDA/DOST observe and frame the standards, and CENRO embeds the recovery system in the community.
This distribution is what makes the model durable and replicable: responsibility, cost and risk are spread across stakeholders rather than concentrated in one, so the infrastructure can scale beyond a single pilot city.
Shared infrastructure, shared accountability
Space is contributed by the City; equipment by Plastic Reboot (GEF-UNIDO-DENR); operations by ReCirca/refillka; and SOPs are co-developed with NutriAsia QA for FDA/DOST. Each party is accountable for its own lane.
Referenced across program materials
Build the circular infrastructure with us.
- collaborate@recircagroup.com
- www.recircagroup.com
- ReCirca Management Corp
- Ces Rondario — Founder & CEO