Angeles City’s Walang Plastikan — Plastik Palit Bigas project, which was launched by Mayor Carmelo ‘Pogi’ Lazatin, Jr. last year, has already collected a total of 1,776,209 kilos of plastic in a year. 

Mayor Lazatin said that these 1,776,209 kilos of plastic were exchanged for 1,776,209 kilos of rice by the residents of the 33 barangays who participated in the project.