{"id":7370,"date":"2019-10-24T14:10:18","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T12:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retalgroup.com\/retal-cleans-up-with-wfo-in-cyprus\/"},"modified":"2022-02-01T11:38:51","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T09:38:51","slug":"retal-cleans-up-with-wfo-in-cyprus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retalgroup.com\/fr\/retal-cleans-up-with-wfo-in-cyprus\/","title":{"rendered":"RETAL cleans up with WFO in Cyprus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.retalgroup.com\/fr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RETAL<\/a>\u2019s clean-up events has taken place in with more than 30 volunteers removing plastic waste from the coastline to be repurposed into meaningful products.<\/p>\n<p>Joining forces with <a href=\"https:\/\/waste-free-oceans.prezly.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Waste Free Oceans<\/a>, 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 VP George Ollandos, who were keen to show how a strong team spirit helps make challenging situations far more positive.<\/p>\n<p>Hagai Golan, RETAL Cyprus General Manager, said: \u201cThis was a true team event bringing together RETAL people, WFO and the Apollon Ladies FC and making 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>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.<\/p>\n<p>Emmanuel Duffaut, RETAL\u2019s Sustainability Director, added: \u201cWe are determined to be active and responsible in our role in the circular economy. By partnering with Waste Free Oceans, we are able to see how collecting visible plastic waste from our coastlines helps promote a positive second life for plastic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>RETAL is a PET preform supplier and active member of Waste Free Oceans, which targets converters, governments, companies, and the public to inspire recovery, recycling and reuse.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.retalgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Clean-Up_eppm_article.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read\/download the article (PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eppm.com\/materials\/retal-cleans-up-with-wfo-in-cyprus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read online version on EPPM.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first of RETAL\u2019s clean-up events has taken place in with more than 30 volunteers removing plastic waste from the coastline to be repurposed into meaningful products.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,103,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-personnes","category-all-fr","category-article-fr"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retalgroup.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retalgroup.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retalgroup.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retalgroup.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retalgroup.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7370"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.retalgroup.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7382,"href":"https:\/\/www.retalgroup.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7370\/revisions\/7382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retalgroup.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retalgroup.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retalgroup.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retalgroup.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}