Keeping up with our recycling tradition, this year’s coast clean-up took place on the 1st of October at the “Ahinos” beach in Piraeus. While scientists, governments and environmentalists try to figure out how to clean up tons of garbage on the coasts, Danaos employees and their families participated to the International Coastal Clean-up initiative, coordinated by HELMEPA.

 Our day started with a visit at the Hellenic Maritime Museum where about two thousand items are exhibited in such a manner that our naval tradition came to life in a chronological order before our eyes.
After completing our cultural visit, we moved on to the beach where we proactively started our mission. We wore our cleaning gloves, we opened the giant bags and we kicked off with the cleaning and the monitoring of our findings. All sorts of trash was collected such as plastic bottle, broken glass, plastic bags, straws, cigarette butts, beer cans and even a necklace with a stuffed scorpion!
It's exciting to see the cleanup participation grow each year especially when so many children are involved. Volunteers are not only contributing to the environment by removing trash from the beaches but they are doing their part to promote a clean, healthy and sustainable environment while at the same time they are increasing awareness on the issue. Because, here, at Danaos we do believe that every little counts!