Daycare children tidy up
10.05.2024 – More than 500 children from 10 daycare centers took part in this year's Clean Children's Day in Offenbach. The nationwide environmental campaign has been organized for more than 20 years, and Offenbach has been involved from the very beginning.
The young participants cleaned up the sidewalks, flowerbeds and tree grates around their daycare center. Stadtwerke Offenbach had equipped the children with tongs, gloves and garbage bags via its Stadtservice. Although it was mainly smaller items of waste such as cigarette butts, tissues and packaging that ended up in the bags, in the end it was a large pile of filled garbage bags that the Stadtservice collected and disposed of properly.
The aim of the campaign is to teach the little ones from an early age that garbage should not be thrown on the street, but should be placed in the appropriate waste garbage cans. As a thank you, Stadtwerke's resource and waste advisory service then handed out badges with the words "Weltretter" (world savers) and flower seed mixes for plants that provide insects with food during the warmer months.