In accordance with the idea of the campaign,
which has been organised annually since 2012, the income from the utilisation
of collected items and retrieved raw materials is assigned for charity. This
year’s edition was held by the EKON „Disabled for the Environment” Association,
which was also the beneficiary of this year’s campaign. The funds generated on
the sale of plastic and recyclable materials will be assigned for the statutory
activities of the organisation, namely social and vocational rehabilitation of
the disabled. The Association estimates that income generated from the
collected e-waste will amount to approximately PLN 30 thousand.
„The opportunity to co-operate with you was a
great challenge for us, for the reason of the territorial reach of the
campaign, but we were happy to undertake such challenge, in order to expand our
experience and vocational competence of our employees. The EKON Association is
a non-profit organisation, which creates jobs for the persons with disabilities
who may suffer from social exclusion, including for persons with mental illnesses.
We are happy that we have stood up to the challenge and additionally we have
obtained financial aid. The funds generated during the waste collection will
help us continue the accomplishment of our statutory tasks, therefore we would
like to express our gratitude for your trust and the offered possibility to work
hand in hand in this campaign.” – Jacek Czuryło, the co-ordinator of the e-waste
collection on the part of EKON Association, says.
„We are happy that once again we teamed up within the real-estate sector
for such a good cause. This time we have managed to expand the reach of our
campaign by other buildings, which number increased to 100. Along with the EKON
Association, which organised the collection in a very professional and
efficient manner, we have managed to remove from the buildings almost 27 tons
of e-waste, which is going to be recycled. It is our contribution – as a real-estate
sector – to the practical accomplishment of the “less waste” idea. The e-waste
collection has always been and remains a very important campaign for us,
because we merge the education of the tenants and their staff in the aspect of
environment – friendly attitude with the promotion of helping others.” – Izabela
Miazgowska, Director of the Real-estate Management Department at Knight Frank, says.
This year, the campaign has
been carried out in a new formula – #ElectroTrashChallenge, which refers to the
popular social media campaign #TrashChallenge”. The EKON Association gathered
the data about the quantity of e-waste in the individual buildings, and thanks
to such information, we have managed to indicate for the first time the winner,
namely a building that has contributed with the highest quantity of waste for
recycling. The leader of the #ElectroTrashChallenge was Rondo 1 office building.
A round of applause for the tenants of the building, who took part in our
campaign.
The „Get rid of unnecessary kilowatts” campaign
is related to the celebration of the International Earth Day. Thanks to this
initiative, the employees of the buildings in the Warsaw area may dispose in
the assigned places of unnecessary electric equipment, such as computers, TV sets,
telephone sets, batteries, audio equipment or small size electric household
appliances. The idea of the campaign is to educate and promote the recycling of
e-waste.