ACCIONA team in Qatar starts the volunteer program with the clean-up beaches

As part of the ACCIONA’ sustainability commitment, the ACCIONA team in Qatar started yesterday the volunteering program with the first of the activities, which consisted of collecting waste on the Al Wakrah public beach which is located in Al Wakrah city coastal line between the Umm Al Houl (UHP) and Ras Abu Fontas (RAF A3) desalination plants.

This initiative has helped to collect 57 industrial rubbish bags which means more than 120kg of waste during the 2 hours in which around 70 volunteers have participated, all of them from the Operation &Maintenance team of the UHP and RAF A3 plants as well as members of the office in Doha.

This volunteer program is part of the social management in which the ACCIONA team participates with both plants and is carried out in coordination with the Municipality of Al Wakrah.

“The impacts of mismanaged plastic waste on the climate, as well as on livelihoods and ecosystems, are an urgent development challenge. Cleaning up beaches has a visible impact on preserving our environment and these kinds of activities highlight ACCIONA’s commitment to corporate social responsibility in the community,” said Guillermo Hijós, O&M Desalination Middle East and Oceania Director for the water business of ACCIONA.

ACCIONA supports a sustainable business model that seeks economic growth, social progress and environmental balance with the goal of improving the lives of present and future generations.

To achieve this, we design solutions that address the major global challenges facing humanity: decarbonisation of the energy system, the climate emergency, water and sanitation shortages, the need for resilient infrastructures, and innovation and the development of more sustainable cities.