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What is PPP or Papemelroti Planet Patrol? It is a club that promotes awareness on
different environment protection issues like waste disposal, recycling, endangered
animals, power and water conservation and others.
The club started in 1990 when people started to respond to one of the journals we send to our customers. It was meant initially to just let people know how important it is to conserve our natural resources, but since many letters came in, it was decided that a club be formed.
"Do what you can, where you are, with
what you have." This means that whoever you are, whether young or old; wherever
you are, in the city or countryside; whether you have a lot of resources or not, YOU CAN
MAKE A DIFFERENCE in saving our planet! It doesn't matter if what you can do is to
invent a machine to reuse plastic or just simply throw your garbage in the proper place,
it is all very important!
What do we do? What does it mean to be a PPP officer? PPP officers communicate through the mail. Thus, there are no meetings (since we have members from different provinces). Although you may be called upon for special projects. Our first project was to collate the addresses and contact numbers of junkshops and recycling centers which we could use to know where we could bring all our recycleable paper, metal scraps, wood, and bottles. For our list click here. Other activities include participation in the International Coastal Cleanup initiated by the International Marinelife Alliance group every year. Papemelroti distributed Data Cards for the cleanup. Each PPP officer has his own ID and encouraged to write what he is doing for the environment. In turn for these, the Planet Patrol headquarters sends PPP Posts which have articles, quizzes and games, & news on what other PPP officers have done. PPP updates and activities by individual PPP members are included in Papemelroti Journals which one can get at all Papemelroti branches for free. Our Papemelroti E-Mail Newsletter also carries environment news from time to time. One can also look at the PPP Projects Bulletin Board found at every Papemelroti branch for new activities. For PPP officers who'd like to meet other PPP officers, there is a Friendship List which has the name, age and addresses of other PPP'ers wanting to correspond with each other. We encourage everyone, PPP officer or not, to participate in our Earth Forum, our message board for everyone to contribute ideas in saving our environment. Click here to go to our Earth Forum. Click here for current Projects
How do I become a member of PPP? At the moment, our membership has reached its limit - we're already about 800 across the nation - with a handful abroad. But everybody who wants to join shouldn't be discouraged. Everybody IS, in essence, a Planet Patroller since we all have the responsibility to care for this world that God has given us, plus all PPP activities and publications are open to the public so everybody can really join in and take part in all PPP does.
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