FedEx Express volunteers take part in massive beach clean-up

Teams of volunteers from FedEx Express have been active across the Asia Pacific, Middle East, and Africa (AMEA) region conducting beach cleaning activities as support the company’s commitment to make the communities in which it operates more sustainable.

More than 455 FedEx volunteers and their family members joined in a pan-AMEA beach cleaning initiative that ran four months up to December 2022 across 21 beaches in Australia, India, Japan, and Singapore.

The volunteers put in a total 870 hours of hard work and removed a massive 142,987kg of garbage and plastic waste from the environment.

FedEx Express said it is estimated that 81 per cent of ocean plastics come from Asian rivers. Beach clean-ups play a critical role in not just protecting marine biodiversity, mitigating the impacts of climate change, but also supporting sustainable economic growth around the coastlines which support the livelihoods of millions of people.

“Building a sustainable future doesn’t happen overnight. It requires a collective behaviour change,” said Kawal Preet, president of Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa (AMEA) region at FedEx Express.

“At FedEx, we are not only working hard to achieve our organisational goal of carbon neutral global operations by 2040 but are also actively building meaningful programs to get our employees involved in solving some of the most pressing environmental issues in our society,” Preet said.

“The beach clean-ups are an excellent opportunity for our team members to contribute to turning the tide on ocean plastic and building cleaner and more sustainable coastal communities for the future,” she said.

Giving back to local communities has always been part of FedEx culture. The company is using its ongoing FedEx Cares program to reach its goal of positively impacting 50 million people around the world by its 50th birthday in April 2023.