The PNO office and workshop in Helsingborg established the project “Operation Green Friday” in November 2018. 21 PNO employees spend their day collecting trash in the local area to improve the conditions for wildlife and local citizens. A total of 240 kg trash was collected during the work day.

The project was the first of PNO’s Local Community Days.

PNO Office & Workshop in Helsingborg have taken over the second-hand shop Erikshjälpen two times during 2019 to support the organization.
Every day Erikshjälpen sorts over 3000 items – furniture, clothes, shoes, toys, books, kitchenware, fabrics etc. Donated goods is sold at the shop to generate funds for social and humanitarian efforts. Approximately 6 million SEK is donated yearly though the NGO. Through initiatives for education, health, safety and protection, they give children and young people around the world help and the opportunity to dare to dream about the future.

In July 2020, our Swedish team had its first volunteering day of the year – which was postponed due to Covid-19. The mission was to help the Red Cross loading 1200 sacks of textiles in a truck, which is now on its way to TEXAID in Germany for recycling.

Some of the clothes are trying to be resold, while garment that is either broken or too dirty recycles to cleaning rags, isolation material etc.
The overall goal is zero waste.

Our Swedish team’s mission this Monday was to load textiles that could not be sold. According to the Red Cross, PNO SE set a new record in loading time and loaded highest weight of textiles (13,200 kilos) in the truck.

PNO Finland has from the beginning teamed up with the Municipality of Sipoo to ensure that their efforts were placed where they mattered the most in the local community. So far, two working days have been used on projects focusing on cleaning up natural sites. In the spring 10 employees spent their working day on collecting construction waste from the backyard of an old hardware store and afterward sort the materials for recycling. In the fall they cleaned up a non-authorised junkyard used for organic waste in the residential area of Söderkulla.

Team PNO Denmark supported the Municipality of Horsens in preserving historical burial mounds (gravhøje) located in Underup. Our Danish team spent a day cleaning up the mounds from invasive plant species, useful to preserve both the area’s cultural history and nature.

PNO Group Office spent the day helping the keepers of Sydhavnstippen in southern Copenhagen to remove invasive plant species that threaten the original flora and fauna of the urban natural area. The initiative also turned into a great opportunity to learn about the history and purposes of the area, and of its four-legged inhabitants, while creating better user access for the local community