World Cleanup Day took place on Saturday, 21 September 2020. In Lenzburg, employees, customers and the two founders of NIKIN collected waste and disposed of it properly. A total of 75.5 kilograms were collected.
World Cleanup Day took place on Saturday, 21 September 2020. In Lenzburg, employees, customers and the two founders of NIKIN collected waste and disposed of it properly. A total of 75.5 kilograms were collected.
The motivated helpers collected litter for just under three hours. Lenzburg is home to the headquarters of NIKIN, which is why the company decided to give something back to this town and organise a cleanup.
Every helping hand counts
After an appeal on social media, several volunteers came forward to support the NIKIN team with the cleanup. The cleanup team consisted of 23 people, including three children who actively helped. Divided into four groups, they collected for about three hours. Afterwards, they carried the waste to the waste disposal point, separated it and disposed of it properly.
The two NIKIN founders are collecting with
The two founders of NIKIN, Robin Gnehm (CPO) and Nicholas Hänny (CEO/CMO), also took part in the collection. Together with customers, they formed a collection group and took care of Lenzburg's old town. "We are very pleased that we were able to do something for our home town of Lenzburg together with our community," says Nicholas Hänny. "And of course we also hope that our efforts will make as many people as possible aware of the waste problem," adds Robin Gnehm.
The two founders of NIKIN, Robin Gnehm (l.) and Nicholas Hänny (r.) on Cleanup Day.
Cigarette butts as a particular environmental burden
Cigarette butts on the streets are a particular environmental burden, as they contaminate around 40 litres of groundwater - per butt. The neurotoxin nicotine is very soluble in water. And it only takes 30 seconds for it to be flushed out of the cigarette filter. On Cleanup Day in Lenzburg, participants collected 10,850 cigarette butts. This means that 434,000 litres of groundwater could be protected. This corresponds to about 2,893 full bathtubs, as the average volume of a bathtub is about 150 litres.
The most important figures summarised
- 23 participants, three of them children
- 75.5 kg of waste collected, separated and disposed of properly
- of which 55.5 kg are recyclable
- 10,850 cigarette butts, equivalent to 2.5 kg
- 304 aluminium cans were collected
- 434 PET bottles
- 68 Glass bottles
- 41 Batteries
- 113 Masks
