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Blue Belt Movement – A Bosphorus

Project

“Borusan Ocean Volunteers” formed by Borusan’s volunteering employ-
ees undersigned a collaboration project with Clean Sea Association TUR-
MEPA. Under the scope of the project with the hashtag slogan #KoyVer-

meBoyVer (Don’t Slack Up, Just Check the Depth), the Borusan Volunteers
joined the TURMEPA educational programs and became voluntary train-
ers in informing people in their companies and their surroundings about
the seas.

In this Project where Borusan Mak-
ine ve Güç Sistemleri assumed the 90% of the liquid waste on
Ocean Group Leadership, 27 em-
earth is dumped into the
ployees from Borusan Makina ve
Güç Sistemleri, Bukoli, Borusan rivers and seas untreated,
Danışmanlık, Borusan Oto/Otomo-
whereas the 50-70% of
tiv, Borusan EnBW Enerji, Borusan
Manheim, Borusan Mannesmann, the oxygen in the world is
Borçelik and Kerim Çelik joined in
provided by the planktons
a three-day training program and

received “Trainer’s Training” certif- living in the seas. 80% of the
icate to become a “TURMEPA Vol-
pollution in the seas is made
untary Trainer”.
directly by humans.

Borusan Ocean Volunteers briefed
876 students and 36 school teachers about the importance of seas in
Borusan Asım Kocabıyık Vocational and Technical High School, Gebze
Balçık Primary, Emirgan Primary, Sarıyer Mehmet İpgin Secondary ve
Borusan Oto Zehra – Nurhan Kocabıyık Secondary schools in a total of

nine-hour training through March, April and May. The pupils of Borusan
Asım Kocabıyık Vocational and Technical High School organized a shore-
line cleansing event after the training they received. They also did a de-
sign work by utilizing waste materials.

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