Trimo’s 11th Community Day: We participated in the campaign “Let’s clean Slovenia in a day!”

Trebnje, 17 April – Today Trimo combined the 11th Community Day with the all-Slovenian “Let’s clean Slovenia in a day!” cleaning campaign. Around 80 employees of the Slovene section of the Trimo Group, and their families, joined the campaign and cleaned the Trebnje area, altogether collecting 28 cubic metres of waste or, in other words, they cleaned 5 waste dumping grounds. In this way, Trimo continues the tradition of combining pleasure with usefulness on Community Day – namely, each year Trimo employees, together with their families, friends, and neighbours, take part in various activities to maintain their health and strengthen bonds, while simultaneously doing all they possibly can to help the local environment.

 In the framework of Trimo’s Community Day, around 80 Trimo, Akripol, Tinde, CBS Inštitut, and Trimo Investment employees, and their families, joined the campaign “Let’s clean Slovenia in a day!”.  

Around 75% of the other employees joined the campaign in their home towns (Ljubljana, Novo Mesto, Maribor, and elsewhere). 
Trimo employees cleaned the Vinja Gorica area, from Dolenja Nemška vas to the Lukovška stream, along the railroad and the road running by Trimo and, in two and a half hours, altogether collected 28 cubic metres of waste. In the spirit of Trimo’s tradition, the company made good use of the ecological tone of that Saturday morning for pleasant socialising with colleagues.

Aleš Jarc, in charge of Environment and Security at Trimo, said at the end of the campaign: ”We were not only collecting waste today, but we were also recycling it. I estimate that around half of the bags that we collected can be recycled and half of the waste that will end up at a garbage depot.

I hope that my colleagues and I will participate in this kind of campaign again.  
At the same time, I wish that there were fewer of them; not because we do not want to participate, but because we should be more environmentally aware, so in the future they would not be necessary.”

Participating in projects like “Let’s clean Slovenia in a day!” is in line with the actual direction Trimo is taking, which systematically invests in the development of environmentally friendly products and technologies, and pursues a systematic environmental protection policy. Trimo, for example, was the first Slovene company to receive the Planet Positive mark for Trimoterm products and so joined a group of prominent European companies that pay special attention to the environment. Together with the commitment to future development of environmentally friendly products and business systems, by membership of the Planet Positive association of Great Britain, Trimo actively supports global projects that create a positive balance in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Trimo is also a member of the UN Global Compact (UNGC) network of organisations and uses the business processes and goals that follow the UNGC principles requiring a preventive approach to environmental issues.  
In doing so, Trimo encourages a higher level of environmental responsibility, propagates new environmentally friendly technologies, and at the same time develops even more modern, and more environmentally focused, construction methods.

On Trimo’s Community Day the entire Trimo management also participated in the campaign “Let us clean Slovenia in a day!”.  At the end of the campaign, Daniel Zupančič, MSc, management representative for the environment, and Tatjana Fink’s Deputy General Manager for the Technical Sector, stressed his satisfaction with what was achieved: “I am glad and proud that such a large number of employees responded to the cleaning campaign invitation. I thank the employees of Trimo, Akripol, Tinde, the CBS Inštitut, and Trimo Investment, for the support and good spirit in the event, which enabled the revival of the Community Day in the real sense of the word. We have again proven that we know how to support campaigns which confirm our commitment to sustainable development in practice.”

General Manager Tatjana Fink, MBA: “We believe that this campaign is of exceptional importance. Not only literally cleaning Slovenia, but also in the notion that we will be more alert in the future, so that such waste will be minimal and that we will dispose of it in places where it belongs.”