World Cleanup Day 2025: Record participation at ERGO worldwide

ERGO broke several records on this year's World Cleanup Day on 20 September: more than 5,000 participants from Germany and 14 other countries took part. With a total of 1,124, the number of full rubbish bags collected doubled compared to last year!

More than 5,000 ERGO colleagues, family members, friends and customers active worldwide

It wasn't only at the German ERGO locations in Berlin, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Cologne and Munich that many volunteers grabbed shovels, rakes and grabbers and filled bin bag after bin bag. Many employees in Belgium, China, Denmark, Greece, India, Luxembourg, Norway, Austria, Singapore, Sweden, Spain, Thailand and Czechia also took part – and mobilised family members, friends, sales staff and customers. The campaigns were organised and implemented by the local companies.

HDFC ERGO in India reported outstanding participation: more than 4,000 participants collected around 6,000 kilograms of rubbish. ERGO Life China had just under 780 volunteers, the German locations had more than 130, and DKV Seguros in Spain had around 90.

Rubbish collection as an event for a strong community

The ingenuity with which some ERGO locations set to work also shows that rubbish collection can combine the important commitment to a cleaner environment with a lot of fun, strengthen the sense of community and thus inspire the idea of ‘‘ERGO. Grow together.’’

For example, ERGO Hellas in Greece organised a Climate Walk with interesting facts and valuable tips for greater sustainability in dealing with nature and the environment. And in Belgium, colleagues took to the water under the motto ‘‘More canoes instead of rubbish’’ to collect as much waste as possible in the port city of Ghent in the north-west of the country.

Donation goes to Healthy Seas

To ensure that our commitment to a better world is not just a sign of the threatening state of our environment, but also makes a tangible contribution to further environmental protection measures, the ERGO Group is donating five euros for each full bin bag collected. The donation amount will also be rounded up and doubled. The recipient is once again the marine conservation organisation Healthy Seas, which was founded to rid the oceans of ghost nets and use them as a valuable resource. Healthy Seas ensures that the nets can be recycled and processed into new materials.

Pictures from World Cleanup Day