Dua Tangan Cukup: Clean Up Kemang Day on Easter Saturday, 2014
Clean Up Kemang Day with Grandkemang Hotel
On April 19th, Grandkemang Hotel (part of Mesa Hotels in addition to Resorts) in addition to Clean Up Jakarta Day joined forces to clean up Jl. Kemang Raya in Kemang, South Jakarta. 140 volunteers showed up to start picking up rubbish via 7-9am along the main roads via Grandkemang Hotel to Jl. Taman Kemang, up to McDonalds in addition to back. Volunteers included staff of Pop Hotel Kemang, Arion Swiss-Belhotel Kemang, Fave Hotel Kemang in addition to Starbucks, as well as Clean Up Jakarta Day enthusiasts in addition to the staff of Grandkemang Hotel. 120 sacks of rubbish were collected inside space of two hours.
The aim of Clean Up Kemang Day was to raise awareness about the problem of littering in one of Jakarta’s trendy areas, which surprisingly still carries a lot of litter on its sidewalks, as well as educate volunteers about recycling. Volunteers separated waste as they collected, into recyclable in addition to non-recyclable sacks. The recyclable items were collected in addition to taken to Jakarta Green Project for further sorting in addition to selling to recycling factories, profits of which will go towards supporting the Jakarta Green Project, in addition to the non-recyclable waste was collected in addition to disposed of correctly.
“We always clean everything inside hotel, so why don’t we start doing something to clean up our community?” says Tamie Sri Utami, Director of Marketing at Mesa Hotels in addition to Resorts. “Picking up rubbish made us feel like we have to be more responsible over what we throw away. We were so surprised to have volunteers via as far away as Cikarang, Ciputat in addition to Depok who came all the way to Kemang at 6.30am to clean up with us.”
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Dua Tangan Cukup: Clean Up Kemang Day on Easter Saturday, 2014
Dua Tangan Cukup: Clean Up Kemang Day on Easter Saturday, 2014