World Clean Up Day 2025
20 September 2025: World Clean Up Day 2025
The Thai-Norwegian Chamber of Commerce (TNCC) would like to invite you to join the World Clean Up Day campaign at Starboard’s HQ on Taco Lake, hosted by Starboard, one of our premium members, and Trash Hero Bangkok, aiming to create a significant and lasting positive environmental impact in the community on Saturday 20 September, 2025.
World Clean Up Day is an inspiring global movement that brings together millions of people in 191 countries to tackle today’s pressing environmental challenges, such as plastic pollution, waste mismanagement, and ecological degradation, with individuals, organisations, and communities joining forces to remove litter and champion environmental sustainability.
Norway is well known for promoting environmental conservation through its robust policies and commitment to sustainability, raising strong public awareness on waste management, plastic reduction, and environmental protection. This initiative offers a valuable opportunity for you to take part in safeguarding our planet’s future.
- Date: Saturday 20th September 2025
- Time: 09:00 – 11:30 hrs.
- Venue: Starboard Co.,LTD. 175/5 Moo 12, Bangna- Trad Km. 13 Rd., Bangplee Yai, Bangplee, Samutprakran, 10540, Thailand
Starboard will provide paddleboards, and will work together to clean up the canal and the streets of Bang Phli. Participants will meet at Starboard’s HQ on Taco Lake, Bang Phli. If your company would like to sponsor or support the event, please email [email protected].
Last year, almost 500 kg is collected in just under 2 hours. This year, we want to increase our impact!
What to expect:
- A chance to try our Canal cleanup with Starboard’s stand-up paddle boards
- You can choose to stay on land and participate as well
- Free refreshments and water refill – please bring your own reusable water bottle
- Being part of an amazing team of motivated individuals!
Everyone is welcomed to join, we’d love to have as many people as possible, so please share around to your friends, family, and colleagues.
Plastic Impact Programme
Additionally, your company, team and organisation has the opportunity to expand your impact further by donating towards the year-round Starboard Blue Impact Programme that pays vulnerable community members to pick up plastic as income opportunities along with our education programme. Your team can choose how many tonnes to fund the removal of.
About Starboard
Svein Rasmussen founded starboard in 1994. It all came from the vision of bringing innovation, quality and inspiration to the world of wind and water. Together with riders and partners around the world, Starboard and Tiki strive to be the best in the world and for the world. And today is the World’s leading Windsurfing and Paddleboarding brand, based in Thailand. Innovation is what drives us at Starboard, coupled with the idea that limits are often in our minds. No matter the context, our team will double down and keep designing equipment we believe can lead to an exciting future, challenge today’s status quo and bring forward innovation.
About Trash Hero
Trash Hero is a global volunteer movement, led, supported, and governed by Trash Hero World. At our heart is a growing grassroots network of chapters: unincorporated, community-based organisations that run our programmes. Each is affiliated to Trash Hero World and their national Trash Hero organisation if one exists. Currently, the network extends to 20 countries around the world: Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Czech Republic, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Switzerland, Poland, Holland, Georgia, Germany, USA, Australia, and Japan.
For more information about how to organise a cleanup event, please click here. The link also contains some safety precautions.
For other interesting articles from our members and chamber activities, please visit our website.
