{"id":7364,"date":"2019-10-21T14:25:40","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T12:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retalgroup.com\/retal-team-cleans-up-with-wfo-in-cyprus-2\/"},"modified":"2022-02-01T11:35:30","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T09:35:30","slug":"retal-team-cleans-up-with-wfo-in-cyprus-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retalgroup.com\/es\/retal-team-cleans-up-with-wfo-in-cyprus-2\/","title":{"rendered":"RETAL Team cleans up with WFO in Cyprus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"lead\">\n<p>The first of RETAL\u2019s clean up events took place in Cyprus, on 12 October, with over 30 volunteers removing plastic waste from the coastline to be repurposed into meaningful products.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-offset-1 col-md-10\">\n<div class=\"news-text-wrap\">\n<p>Joining forces with international Waste Free Oceans, RETAL employees and their families collected discarded plastic waste from the Lady\u2019s mile area coast in Limassol, highlighting the role of plastic packaging companies in the fight against plastic pollution.<\/p>\n<p>The group of volunteers was bolstered by 13 members of the RETAL-sponsored Apollon Ladies\u2019 Football Club, including vice president George Ollandos, who were delighted to join together with RETAL and WFO to show how a strong team spirit helps make challenging situations far more positive.<\/p>\n<p>RETAL\u2019s clean-up event was combined with the annual Environment &amp; Recycling Festival in the Molos area of Limassol, with the strapline \u2018Build Good Habits\u2019 aiming to raise public awareness. Here, RETAL\u2019s stand offered \u2018Raising Awareness\u2019 brochures, with many local people visiting the stand to discuss recycling, circular economy and future of positive plastic. Hagai Golan, RETAL Cyprus General Manager, says, \u201cThis was a true team event; bringing together RETAL people, WFO and the Apollon Ladies F.C. made for an impressive group that showed how positive action can create a ripple effect. The festival was also an excellent opportunity to show our local community what RETAL is doing to mitigate our environmental impact.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retalgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Clean-up-Competence-article.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read\/download the article (PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.petnology.com\/competence-online\/news\/retal-team-cleans-up-with-wfo-in-cyprus.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read online version on comPETence<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first of RETAL\u2019s clean up events took place in Cyprus, on 12 October, with over 30 volunteers removing plastic waste from the coastline to be repurposed into meaningful products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111,98,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-personas","category-article","category-all"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retalgroup.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retalgroup.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retalgroup.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retalgroup.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retalgroup.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.retalgroup.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7368,"href":"https:\/\/www.retalgroup.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7364\/revisions\/7368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retalgroup.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retalgroup.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retalgroup.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retalgroup.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}