CALAMBA CITY, Laguna, October 8 (PIA) — In line with its efforts in promoting a greener environment for the community, SM City Calamba commenced October 6 its first Green Retail Agenda.

The SM Green Retail Agenda is a yearly event offered for every mall tenants across all SM Supermalls. This year, the conference highlights the SM initiatives as a steward of the environment and emphasizes on the social, economic and environmental benefits of green retail through inviting some of the biggest names across various industries.

Held at Cinema 1, mall tenants of SM City Calamba benefited from what has been shared by Chito Macapagal (VP for Corporate Affairs) from Unilever Philippines about Solid Waste Management.

The Laguna Lake Development Authority and REPESA Corporation were also invited as keynote speakers. Loida Humarang, the city environment and natural resources officer, was present in the event and showed her support in this endeavour.

The symposium is geared towards not only helping the environment, but helping business flourish. SM has always made it a point to encourage mall tenants and concessionaires to simultaneously increase earnings and create a greener future with the use of environment friendly materials and other greener strategies. (Joanna Carla Meneses – Saquilayan, SM City Calamba/DVL, PIA-Calabarzon)