FxPro Financial Services – Green & Clear
LEMESOS, CYPRUS – 13 JANUARY 2010. Lemesos Municipality and FxPro Financial Services Limited have launched Green & Clean, a major new environmental campaign for the city, on 23 December 2009. Lemesos Municipality is the largest in Cyprus, and FxPro is a leading online FX broker, with headquarters in Lemesos. The purpose of the campaign is to deliver greater and more efficient Environmental Health Services for Lemesos, for the benefit of improving the public health and hygiene standards of the city. The launch includes FxPro donating to Green & Clean two new ‘Green Machines’ – eco-efficient street sweepers – at a cost of ?50,000.
Lemesos’s Green & Clean is unique for being the first Cyprus Municipality major environmental campaign. Its strategy is to help drive and deliver continued improvements in the public health and environment. The first initiative to be launched is the delivery and services of street cleaning services using Green Machine sweepers, which are also being used for the first time by a Cyprus Municipality. In only one hour, both machines can clean the equivalent of two football fields – work which, done manually, would instead take two whole weeks to do. The Green Machines are high-specification, eco-friendly and perfectly suited for congested and confined public spaces. They have fuel-efficient Kubota diesel engines, and shred and compact waste by 66% of its original size. These sweepers will operate all day in the Lemesos Municipality, six days a week, and be run by two of Lemesos’s existing Environmental Health team, trained especially to work the machines.
Speaking about the campaign, Lemesos’s Mayor Andreas Christou, and Louiza Protopapa, spokesperson for FxPro, said, “As the largest Municipality in Cyprus, together with FxPro, one of the most successful Lemesos-based global financial services companies, we are proud to be launching Green & Clean, a major new envrionmental campaign. It is the first of its kind in Cyprus, not only for its comprehensive strategy and commitment to improve the public health and environment, but also for the use of Green Machines in a Cyprus city.