NIPIGAZ employees' eco-games brought together over 50 participants
4 june 2021
Employees of St. Petersburg-based NIPIGAZ implemented a volunteer campaign entitled "Eco Games. The Champignon Town" with the aim of cleaning up trash along Idritskaya and Porkhovskaya Streets. This project was chosen as one of the winners of the 6th Contest of SIBUR Employees’ Volunteering Projects carried out as part of SIBUR’s Formula for Good Deeds social investment program.
56 people aged 3 through 73 signed up for the eco-campaign! Before the start of the eco-games, their participants were given an initial safety briefing. Everyone was assigned a bib number and issued an eco-volunteer’s starting kit that included bags for separate waste collection, gloves, sweep nets for fishing out trash from ponds, rakes, and shovels.
Maria Oborina, the campaign’s mastermind and supervisor and a Category 1 design engineer at NIPIGAZ, briefed everyone on the basic rules of separate waste collection. Journalist Ksenia Molochnikova shared her years of experience in sorting garbage at home.
Every campaign participant was awarded points for each bag of garbage collected. All in all, the campaign helped collect more than 200 bags of unsorted household garbage, 50 bags of plastic waste, and 30 bags of glass. Following the cleanup, signs were put in place urging people to keep the city tidy.
The games’ participants competed in four categories: as individuals, as families, as friends, and as coworkers. Evgeny Adorov who ended up collecting more than 20 bags of sorted waste and many items of bulky waste such as tires and construction materials, was named the eco-games’ absolute champion. The second place went to the Khadeyevs family – Maria and Nikolai, whereas the third place was awarded to Yulia Khalikova.
One of the top spots was awarded to Anna Kudryashova, born in 1945, who took part in the campaign together with her family.
All winners and active participants of the eco-games received certificates of appreciation and gifts with the project’s logo and signage. After the awards ceremony all participants were offered light refreshments and soft drinks.
I would like to thank all the participants who found the time and came to our first eco-game! Campaigns like this and their results motivate people to treat nature with care. Many thanks to the company and its Formula for Good Deeds program for the opportunity to organize such useful events, Maria Oborina, Category 1 design engineer at NIPIGAZ, the campaign’s supervisor, commented.
Background information:
SIBUR's Corporate Volunteering Program was launched on September 25, 2017 to be implemented in all cities where the company operates as part of the Formula for Good Deeds, SIBUR’s social investment program. In 2017-2020, 122 projects from 22 cities – from St. Petersburg to Svobodny in Amur Oblast – were chosen as winners of grant contests for employees’ volunteering projects. SIBUR's volunteers have used the grants to hold city-wide environmental events to collect garbage and plastic waste, organize festivals and creative master classes for children going through a difficult period in their lives and for the elderly, and to implement animal conservation and protection campaigns.
Find out more about SIBUR's volunteering program at https://www.formula-hd.ru/volonteer/.