18. September 2023Team GREIF cleans up

This year’s World Cleanup Day took place on Saturday 16.9.2023. GREIF has tested at its location in Augsburg how well such a project is accepted within the company. A total of 14 adults and 8 children voluntarily invested a little of their free time in our environment and collected waste together at Augsburg’s Kuhsee recreation area. Despite an already very clean area around the lake, 2 large bags of rubbish were filled. Mostly cigarette ends and crown caps were to be found, but also broken children’s trousers or cycling gloves were disposed of. All in all, it was a great event, which was surprisingly fun for all participants and which is also planned to take place at other locations in the coming years.

The “World Cleanup Day (WCD)” is a project of the citizens’ movement “Let’s Do It! World”, which originated in Estonia in 2008, when 50,000 people worked together to rid the entire country of rubbish in one day.

In 2022, 15 million people worldwide participated in the “WCD” and sent a strong signal for a clean, healthy and waste-free environment through their Cleanups.