BOTTLE RETURNS
The bottle is not finished
when the juice is.
Rinsed and returned, an empty Pure Nectar becomes eco-lumber. Shelters, school chairs, planks, all of it made here. What looks like the end of a bottle is closer to the middle.
Cold-pressed juice is a live product. No preservatives, no heat, nothing added to help it survive a shelf, which means the bottle is doing real work. It holds the cold, keeps the juice safe, and gets it to you exactly as it left the press.
That work ends the moment you finish drinking. Everything after that is up to where the bottle goes next.
From your kitchen
to something structural.
The Philippines is among the largest sources of ocean plastic in the world, and most of that plastic never enters a recycling system at all. A bottle that leaves your kitchen with the household trash has a good chance of reaching a waterway within the year.
We work with The Plastic Flamingo, a Filipino company based in Muntinlupa that collects hard-to-recycle plastic and turns it into something structural. Your bottles are shredded and put through extrusion, a heat and pressure process that reshapes plastic into eco-lumber. That lumber becomes emergency shelters, school chairs, posts, planks and furniture.
An eco-board, pressed from plastic that would otherwise have gone nowhere useful. Photo courtesy of The Plastic Flamingo.
The whole process happens here, which matters to us. Filipino waste, handled by Filipinos, returned to Filipino communities as something useful.
Three small steps,
and we take it from there.
Rinse and dry
Empty bottles only, washed and fully dry. Separate the caps into a bag and label it with your name.
Bring them back
Drop them at Katipunan or San Antonio, or hand them to our in-house delivery team on your next delivery date.
That is your part
We collect, sort and deliver everything to The Plastic Flamingo ourselves.
Two branches,
open every day.
Pure Nectar Katipunan
G/F MQI Centre, 42 Esteban Abada corner Rosa Alvero St., Quezon City. Beside RCBC.
Pure Nectar San Antonio
G/F San Antonio Place, #1 Capitol Hills Drive, Quezon City. In front of the Robinsons Supermarket entrance.
Nowhere near Quezon City?
Send them somewhere else.
Two branches cannot cover a country. If Katipunan and San Antonio are nowhere near you, we would much rather your bottles reach any recycler at all than sit in a bin because ours were too far away. These take PET bottles, and none of them require you to have bought anything from us.
Go straight to our partner
The Plastic Flamingo runs its own nationwide network of collection points, with a live map so you can find the one closest to you. You can also courier clean, dry bottles directly to their hub at 24 RMT Industrial Complex, Tunasan, Muntinlupa City. No need to message them first.
Find a collection pointTrash to Cash, at almost any SM mall
SM runs a recycling market on the first Friday and Saturday of every month, 10am to 2pm, across 86 malls nationwide. Bring your bottles, they weigh them, and you are paid cash on the spot at the going rate. Whether you are in Cebu, Davao, Baguio or Bacoor, there is very likely one near you.
See how it worksYour barangay MRF or local junk shop
The least glamorous option and often the best one. Most materials recovery facilities and junk shops take clean PET, and the money goes to someone in your own community.
A wider map
Nestlé Philippines maintains a public directory of plastic collection points across Metro Manila and beyond, useful if none of the above are close to you.
Browse the directoryRinse them, dry them, keep the caps separate. After that it barely matters who receives them, as long as somebody does.
Sourcing better produce, pressing cleaner, keeping the cold chain honest, choosing partners who do the work here at home: all of that is ours to get right, and we will keep working at it.
The bottle coming back is the single step that belongs to you. A rinse, a little space in your bag, and a stop on a trip you were probably making anyway. Small enough to forget, and the whole thing depends on it.
Bring it back, and we will take it from there.