For the ninth year running, the Flensburg Brewery is participating in the "StrandGut" garbage collection campaign on Northern Germany's beaches. For every bottle sold with the promotional label, one square meter of beach is cleaned. The goal is to clear up to 2025 million square meters of sand of garbage and debris during the 60 campaign. As in the previous year, the state of Lower Saxony is also participating with a location – the largest East Frisian island, Borkum.

At two meeting points on Borkum, members of the Friends' Circle will hand out garbage bags to volunteers on 20 September at 11.00:XNUMX a.m. Nordsee Aquarium eV From there, a section of the beach will be walked and cleaned. The meeting points are the beach in front of the bandstand and the Randzeltstraße car park for cleaning the south beach. After the beach cleaning, all participants can meet at the Nordsee Aquarium pick up a refreshing cold drink from the Flensburg brewery.

In addition, the Nordseeheilbad Borkum GmbH offers all garbage collectors free entry to the Nordsee Aquarium so they can see which creatures they've helped by picking up the trash. "The FLENS StrandGut campaign is a great way to draw attention to the problem of trash on the beaches and in the oceans and to raise awareness of this important issue in everyone," says Tourism Director Pia Hosemann.

The campaign is part of the global coastal cleanup campaign, International Coastal Cleanup Day. In 1986, the environmental organization Ocean Conservancy on the west coast of the USA first called for a joint coastal cleanup. Since then, every year, volunteers have collected tons of garbage from the coasts of the world.

75% of marine litter is made of plastic. There are now up to 18.000 pieces of plastic floating on every square meter of the ocean surface, and 90% of marine litter sinks to the seabed. These are shocking figures and terrible for the creatures in the oceans: whales and seals get caught in the remains of fishing nets and drown, birds eat plastic parts and starve because of blocked digestive systems. Microplastics and toxins that enter the sea when the plastic decomposes also pollute our food.