Beach cleanup campaign with multinational helpers in Greece
In the beginning of the year 2021 our four big beach cleanups were so successful, mainly with the participation of traveling campers from Germany, Holland and Switzerland, that another beach cleanup took place on March 21st 2021. This time Tina and Ralf from oeoo and the Greek organization Save your Hood organized a cleanup on a large stretch of beach outside of Kalamata. By the way, the two have hit the bill and were able to encourage helpers from the travelers‘ camp. In addition to some camper vans, globetrotting sailors participated in this cleanup, too.
With the support of Save your Hood, many Greeks were able to take part in this action. Safe your Hood (Neighborhood) is an organization platform of Greek members, who quickly and easily arrange to meet via Facebook, to carry out a cleanup twice a week in the regional area of a city. Save your Hood has so far collected 2.9 million bags of rubbish and plastic waste in almost 1.000 campaigns with 9.500 volunteers in 138 Greek regions. Hence it was inevitable that Tina and Ralf from oeoo and Save your Hood planned a common cause on 03/21/21.
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A very special day, because a multinational team of 30 environmental activists and environmental friends from Greece, Germany, Austria and Holland joined up. They collected 40 large bags of plastic waste (95% only small parts) in only 2 hours on a four kilometers long beach. The removal will be organized by the local authorities after a short telephone call.A valuable experience from this activity was, that you necessarily don’t have to schedule a whole day to clean up. If cleanups are performed regularly, several times a week in each regional unit, not only the long-term success is guaranteed, but also the ongoing motivation of the activists.
The participants of Save your Hood were very happy about the support from oeoo and and were delighted that their commitment was so much appreciated.
A great day in action for the oceans and the environment!