GreenKayak
Support this projectGreenKayak co-founders Tobias Weber-Andersen and Oke Carstensen have concocted a fun yet effective way to keep our waterways clean – rent a kayak for free and explore your local river or coastline, while collecting trash and sharing your experience on social media.
Keen kayaker Tobias started cleaning up Copenhagen´s canals during private tours, but soon realized that a more durable solution was needed. His vision? People collecting waste from their local rivers, harbors, lakes and coastlines every single day during the summer. And so, in 2017, the first GreenKayak was launched and quickly pre-booked months in advance. Oke joined the team in 2018, helping take the movement global and the number of kayaks from 3 to 58.
More water, more waste, more locations
Since 2017, more than 25,000 volunteers have paddled for our rivers and oceans under the hashtag #GreenKayak, collecting a total of over 42 tons of waste. The initiative has now reached Sweden, Germany, Norway & Ireland, offering local citizens from Hamburg to Dublin an enjoyable way to do their bit to protect nature. A mobile fleet of 10 GreenKayaks are used for activations and events to share and engage with school kids and other groups.
Working in partnership with local companies, GreenKayak is keen expand with the aim of hitting at least 100 locations across the globe in the next few years.
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