Strong together for our Ruhr!

Thank you for your valuable support this year! Let's work together to keep our waters clean and healthy. The next date is September 14th, 2024!

Together for clean rivers

RhineCleanUp ensures that the garbage does not get out of hand on the rivers. We are committed to protecting the environment and keeping rivers and oceans clean. Be there and support us. Please motivate your friends, colleagues and neighbors too. We support you!

Along the Ruhr

The Ruhr is a 219.3 km long, right and eastern tributary of the Rhine in North Rhine-Westphalia with a catchment area of 4,485 km².

 

The river runs for around 124 km in the area of the Ruhr regional association and gives its name to the largest agglomeration in Germany - the Ruhr area.

 

Industrialization in western Germany began here in the river area at the end of the 18th century. But the Ruhr always had its scenic charms - for example immediately after the source in Winterberg (Sauerland) or in the Kettwig area.

Join a cleanup

 

You want to join an existing cleanup

close to your home?

Select a location and let us know

how many of you will be there.

Organize a CleanUp

 

You want to organise your own cleanup?

Define a route, reach out to your community

to get material and assistance.

Our results

  • 180

    events

  • 9793

    warriors

  • 22538

    kg recovered

Prime Partner

Deutsche Postcode Lotterie

Working together for a greener future: Deutsche Postcode Lottery is actively committed to our environment as a main partner.
 

The mission of the social lottery is to create a better world for us humans and to preserve our planet. The RhineCleanUp not only strengthens social togetherness, but also triggers a rethinking of environmental pollution and its associated consequences. After our employees have already actively supported the big "Rhine CleanUp" in 2018, 2019 and 2020, with the help of our participants we are again financially supporting the project from source to mouth this year. In addition to measures to promote the campaign, work equipment such as trash bags, high-visibility vests, gloves and grabs will be provided for the many thousands of helpers to clean up Germany's second-largest river and its tributaries. And the best thing about it is that anyone can join in and make their contribution to a clean environment.

Partners

River Cleanup

River Cleanup has partnerships all over the world and activated more than 180.000 people in 80 countries along 161 rivers. By connecting people, businesses and governments, the non-profit creates involvement and commitment to work together for a clean environment. The combination of people and technology is an efficient and effective approach to stop the 11 billion kg of plastic that ends up in our oceans, every year.

IGSU

Newly formed in May 2007, the IGSU is an Interest Group for a Clean Environment in Switzerland. The initiative was taken by two private sector recycling organisations, the IGORA Cooperative for Aluminium Recycling and PRS PET-RECYCLING Switzerland. The two organisations have been working together against littering since 2004. Nonetheless, they sought to support activities against littering on a larger scale and have therefore founded the IGSU.

concepts and creations

The advertising agency "c&c concepts and creations GmbH" from attaches great importance to environmental protection. That is why she supports various projects for a clean and healthy environment. With the agency we have found a reliable partner for the maintenance and further development of our website, who is committed to a good cause together with us.