Worldwide Support for Olympus Environment Month

This past June, Olympus offices worldwide celebrated the internal celebration Environment Month. Employees joined a number of events to promote recycling, preserving nature, and supporting the local community.

Here are seven examples of Olympus employees helping the planet.

Olympus China

In late June, Olympus China held a country-wide flea market event for the first time at offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Xi'an, and Chengdu. The high quality and affordable second-hand goods were a big hit with employees!

Olympus Europa - Hamburg

Olympus' Hamburg offices celebrated our Environment Awareness Month by volunteering for the Loki Schmidt Foundation in Hamburg's Alten Land. They preserve and promote about 70 specimens of old fruit tree varieties. Fifteen volunteers from Olympus helped maintain the orchards.

Olympus Japan - Hachioji, Shirakawa, and Tokyo

Olympus regularly donates desks, shelves, chairs, and other uneeded items to NPOs and civic groups. Recently, the Hachioji office donated 551 items to 22 local organizations, and received recognition from Hachioji City and Hachioji Citizen's Activity Council.

Olympus employees from the Shirakawa office joined a tree-planting event at a former ski resort in nearby Nishigo Village, Fukushima Prefecture. 17 volunteers from the company participated, deepening the company's ties with the local community.

26 Olympus employees volunteered at the Showa Rock Trash Pickup at Enoshima, an island southwest of Tokyo. With the event’s live music in the background, they collected plastic trash off the beach. Thank you for the hard work!

Olympus Korea

Olympus Korea held a charity bazaar called "A Beautiful Day." It featured a variety of items donated by employees for sale, including clothes and books. A total of 3,143 items were donated, and all proceeds were donated to a fund to create forests in local communities.

The company also was a sponsor of the "Going-on Walk" beach clean up event organized by the Korean Cancer Society. Approximately 100 people, including OKR employees and cancer survivors, collected 1,270 kg of trash.

Thank you to all employees who supported the Environment Month events!