With Aegean Rebreath for single-use plastics

Limiting the consumption of single-use plastics and raising the awareness of the people of Thessaloniki on marine environment issues will be the main issue of EYATH S.A. cooperation and Aegean Rebreath, as part of a Memorandum of Cooperation (MoU) signed today between the two sides at the company’s headquarters.

As agreed, the two sides will cooperate in the fields of education – training, raising awareness among institutions and citizens, promoting volunteering and developing know-how through pilot projects and specific collaborations, both contributing in experience, expertise and primary data that each one owns. The joint actions of EYATH and Aegean Rebreath will aim to protect the marine environment and mainly to raise social awareness in matters of sustainability and circular economy, issues that have taken on an urgent nature due to the climate and health crisis.

“Everything that has to do with the environment, especially the marine, concerns us as EYATH. We manage waste, we produce water, in a city with a wide sea front and a rich aesthetic and ecological reserve. We want our actions to always create added value in the local community. With Aegean Rebreath, we will explore possible areas cooperation, starting with the limitation in relation with our excellent tap water, for the benefit of the environment and of course… the consumer’s pocket”, pointed out the managing director of EYATH S.A., Anthimos Amanatidis, to add: “The principles of recycling, circular economy, reuse are inherent in our own corporate ecosystem and therefore we share the same values ​​with Aegean”.

“The cooperation with EYATH is a great pleasure for our organization, taking into account our joint efforts to promote the use of tap water”, pointed out the president of Aegean Rebreath, George Sarelakos. In relation to the first cooperation between the two sides, he emphasized that “it is clear the need to ensure the correct quality of water at the national level and to encourage its responsible consumption. Let’s not forget, after all, the significant burden that Greece and the Greek islands face from the use of plastic and the extremely negative effects on the marine environment. In this direction, we aim to combine the know-how of EYATH with the innovative ideas that characterize our organization”.

Aegean Rebreath is a cooperative of a social nature, which undertakes targeted marine clean-up initiatives by mapping, harvesting, collecting, recycling marine waste based on the principles of the circular economy. In 2022 it was awarded the Economist’s “Green Award” and as the best environmental organization of the year. It had also collaborated with EYATH in 2018, in a double action of underwater and coastal cleaning in the port of Aretsou, again with the aim of highlighting the need for decontamination of seas and coasts on the one hand and for recycling and reuse of waste, on the other.

From the left, the managing director of EYATH, A. Amanatidis, with the president of Aegean Rebreath, George Sarelakos