Attending the First Quarter virtual General Meeting on 26 January 2022 was PAGASA Pres. Steven T. Cua, Dir. Robert Go/Prince Retail Group, Diana Prince Ang/AllDay, VP Liansel Sy/Liana's, Treasurer Myke Teodoro/Velamart, Arjie Lim/Andrew's, Dir. Kim Reyes/B-Kim Assenet, Rembrandt Tolentino/Supermarket at Azure, Alexis Gaisano/Gaisano Country Mall, Dir. Edna Ontiveros/Candice Megamart, Dir. Alfie Gatmaytan/KikoMart, Dir. Dustin Uy/San Roque Supermarket, Zoom host William Villanueva and Special Guest Karl Tan/former Super Palengke Group. Presented  were the Philippines' Top Retailers for 2020 and ASEAN Top Philippine Retailers for 2021. Also presented was Euromonitor International's Top 10 Global Consumer Trends for 2022.

Another afternoon online regarding plastic waste management on 19 January 2022 by PAGASA President Steven T. Cua. The Hearing by Congress is the result of the two marathon TWG Meetings the previous week to straighten out kinks shareholders may have in their role when the Extended Producers Responsibility (EPR) bill is passed into law.

Chairing the Hearing is Ecology Committee Head Rep. Glona C. Labadlabad (top, 2R) together with Deputy Speakers Camille Villar (upper rightmost) and Rufus Rodriguez who were co-authors of this Joint Bill. Congress finally passed it on third reading after years and years of hearings to effect laws on plastic waste management.

Ms. Nanette Medved-Po explained the role of PCX (Plastic Credit Exchange) which she heads in monitoring collection & recycling efforts of its members as posted on screen.

Chaired by Committee Secretary for Ecology Atty. Dilbert Quetulio, it was aided by Deputy Speaker Rufus Rodriguez who stayed on the whole afternoon. On this day, the Bill was srutinized by 98 stakeholders word for word, line by line.

Presentations were made by WWF's Atty. Ina Guingona and PARMS' Atty. Bonar Laureto on their proposed structure for the EPR (see attachments). The public sector was represented by NSWMC Commissioner Crispian Lao and authorities from the DOST, DENR, DOF, BOC, BIR, DBM, MMDA, CHED and staff of Congress/Senate.

The private sector had Nestle, Unilever, Mondeliz, SM Prime, Jollibee, Alaska Milk Corp., Absolute Sales Corp. (for bottled water), KFC, McDonalds, PepsiCo, PCCI's Alfredo Yao (well-known manufacturer and packaging man), PPIA, Recyclers' Groups and PAGASA's Pres. Steven T. Cua.

For the academe and NGOs, there was U.P., Atty. Raul Academia of FPI/BCCP/Joint Foreign Chambers, PCX's Nanette Medved Po, CCC, Sonia Mendoza of Mother Earth Foundation, Greenpeace, Ecowaste Coalition, JSPC, PCAPI, AFPMP and other cause-oriented groups.

For a wholistic solution to plastic waste management in this country, producers would set up recycling facilities over time and a monitoring system would see to it that they minimize the plastic components of their manufactured products and collect the plastic wastes from these products for recycling.