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Luxembourg: Dennemeyer Group Supports The Fight Against Plastic Waste With A €20,000 Donation
For its 2018 IP Quiz donation campaign, the Dennemeyer
Group again partnered with the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).
This year the donation amount supports WWF's campaign to reduce
the input of plastic waste in our oceans and see nature be
plastic free by 2030. In less than two weeks, more than 80
registrants played 2,481 games. For each correct answer, Dennemeyer
donated two euros to WWF till the target amount of €20,000 has
been reached.
Our planet is choking on plastic! We need to recycle more, drink
from reusable bottles and gradually replace plastic recipients with
eco-friendlier solutions. Businesses need to make their customers
aware of this issue because we can make a difference only through
collective actions. WWF is campaigning for the ban of
single-use plastic, and Dennemeyer supported the campaign by
donating the amount generated through the winter edition of
Dennemeyer's IP Quiz.
On Friday, January 25 2019, the donation check was handed over
to Dr. Bernhard Bauske, representing WWF Germany, in
Dennemeyer's Munich office by the Managing Director of global
IP law firm Dennemeyer & Associates, Dr. Robert Fichter,
Dennemeyer's Chief Commercial Officer, Tobias Diebold, and
Chief Financial Officer Alexander Mühlberger. Dr. Bauske,
Senior Advisor Marine Litter Reduction for WWF Germany, presented
some of the fund's current projects and detailed how the
donation sum will be used.
WWF will use the donation to support various projects with the
purpose of banning single-use plastic, to reduce the input of
plastic waste in the oceans and to see nature be plastic free by
2030. WWF Germany works primarily with WWF Vietnam on this and is
supporting a project in the Mekong Delta. "In the province
of Long An, we are working with the authorities to develop a waste
management concept and to implement a model project,"
said Dr. Bernhard Bauske. "By collecting the different
waste fractions separately, the organic fraction can be sold as
compost and plastic can be recycled. This will reduce treatment
capacity needs for residual waste dramatically. This is accompanied
by education measures to increase the awareness for the environment
of the population and to inform about the new waste collection
system."
"Our planet is as healthy as its oceans, and that's
why we believe businesses need to support initiatives like these
that go well beyond borders, as does our work," states
Alexander Mühlberger. "We want to be part of the
change and work toward a cleaner environment, together with our
clients and business partners. For this reason, we decided to
donate the amount generated by our 2018 IP Quiz edition to the WWF
and support their effort to clean the oceans of
plastic."
Dr. Robert Fichter adds: "With almost 2,500 played
games, our IP Quiz campaign 2018 was another huge success and a
great way to raise awareness on the dangers plastic waste brings to
our planet. I am glad our donation supports this important
cause."
For each correct answer given in Dennemeyer's IP Quiz, the
IP Group committed itself to donate two euros to WWF. More than
10,000 correct answers were given in 2,481 games. Like every year,
the IP Quiz ended with a championship, and the winner received a
laptop made of environmentally-friendly resources. Although the
campaign ended, you can still play for fun.
Last year, Dennemeyer donated €20,172 through the IP Quiz
to WWF for their projects to protect nature's values. In 2015
and 2016, Dennemeyer donated the funds from this quiz to Doctors
without Borders for their humanitarian projects in the Congo and
Iraq.
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