Trining Climaco Earns Millions|The Garbage Collector's Story
Trining Climaco Earns Millions|The Garbage Collector's Story
Trining Climaco, a grade school dropout turned garbage collector, proves that garbage collections will let you earn millions. She is a junkshop owner, who makes millions by sorting bottles and scrap metal everyday.
On ABS-CBN's My Puhunan, Climaco tearfully recalled and shared to Karen Davila how she worked hard to make sure her children would never experience the hardships she endured at a young age. She said, she used to sell vegetables before and after school. At the age of 11, her grandmother brought her from Aklan to San Juan in Metro Manila. Every day for 12 years, Climaco had to clean and fix whatever garbage she finds in their family's junk shop. It didn't take long, Climaco met her husband Cesario, who was also a garbage collector. They soon had eight children.
At one point, Trining Climaco and her husband decided to start their own junk shop. "Starting out is never easy," Climaco said. They would wake up at 4 a.m. every morning to work at their shop. They employed three men and they provided them with cash and let them use their pushcarts to collect bottles, newspapers, scrap metal and paper. At the end of the day, they would buy the junk from them, and in turn re-sell them.
Every week, they earn thousands from the collected junk materials. For instance, they would buy old newspapers for Php5 a kilo, but sell it for P6 a kilo. They buy scrap metal for Php14 a kilo and sell for Php15.20, and plastic is Php15 a kilo and sold for Php16 a kilo. A truck of metal junk can yield Php8,000, a truck of plastic can be sold for Php2,000, and a truck of paper can earn then Php1,500. In a week, they earn Php18,300 or more.
Her business now has 3 trucks for garbage collection and 6 employees. Climaco showed off her home that she bought with the money she earned from her junk shop. The 3-storey "dream" house has 9 rooms and costs around P2 million. Trining also managed to provide each of her eight kids with a college education with the youngest currently living out her dream of studying law. Climaco, who remains as simple as ever, did not incur any debts, even when building her house.
Do you want to know the secret behind her success? Just watch this youtube video.