REVO Insurance and Legambiente together to clean up Voltri Beach

Genoa, 14 September 2023 - As part of its commitment to environmental and social sustainability, REVO Insurance organised an initiative yesterday that saw its employees go to work on cleaning up Genoa Voltri Beach. The goal of the volunteer work was to make a concrete, useful contribution to the community and area. The project, entitled "Beach Litter", was organised with the support of Legambiente and is part of the larger volunteer programme REVOlunteer day 2023, which involved all the Company's employees at the national level, demonstrating with concrete actions the attention and care devoted to the community and areas in which they work.

REVO employees dedicated a day of work to the beach in Genoa, joining the volunteers from Legambiente in cleaning up and cataloguing the waste present on the beach. At the end of the day, about 15 kg of waste had been collected, including 2,000 cigarette butts, 80 pieces of plastic and various pieces of glass. These are all materials with long environmental degradation times.

Voltri Beach, on the far western outskirts of Genoa, is one of the most popular on the Ligurian coast. Cleaned up just before the start of the summer season, the beach lies at the meeting point of the eastern and western sections of the Ligurian Riviera.

“We are very pleased with the work done today. We would like to thank the employees at our offices in Verona, Milan, and Genoa, as well as the volunteers from Legambiente, with whom we hope to collaborate again. The effort made today to restore neglected public areas to citizens is the same as that reflected every day in our work alongside our brokers and for our clients,” emphasised Alberto Minali, REVO's Chief Executive Officer.

The Beach Litter project promoted by Legambiente aims to monitor the health of coastlines, river banks and urban green areas, surveying the amount and type of waste found in public areas. Over the past eight years, Legambiente has monitored more than 450 beaches in Italy and the Mediterranean. In the study published in 2022, the monitoring of a sample of 47 beaches, totalling about 200,000 square meters, found an average of 783 items of waste per 100 linear meters of beach. Of this, 84% is plastic (92 items of waste per 100 m) and for one beach in three the percentage of plastic equals or exceeds 90% of the total waste monitored.

REVO's volunteering aims to create value for local communities, through the active participation of employees, who are personally involved in projects to safeguard the local area and society. For this reason, REVO intends to continue to promote environmental protection through similar actions in the future, committing itself to the community in which it operates.