Plogging – Jogging and collecting waste with Audi Environmental Foundation

The idea is to collect trash lying along the running track while jogging and then dispose of it properly at the end of the jogging session. Plogging combines active environmental protection with physical exercise and the opportunity to meet new people and to do good things together. A positive side effect: there is less waste along running tracks, roads and forest paths!

The Audi Environmental Foundation will once again be offering several plogging events this year. The dates will be announced here on the website in good time. Registration is requested. All interested parties are invited, regardless of whether they are Audi employees or not.

• Registration by e-mail to info@audi-stiftung-fuer-umwelt.de
  Subject: "Plogging - I'm in!"

• Thursday, July 25, 2024, 6 p.m., in Ingolstadt
• The respective meeting points will be announced.
• Please register by email to: info@audi-stiftung-fuer-umwelt.de
  Subject: "Plogging - I'm in!"

We have already held a good dozen PloggMIT! events with numerous motivated runners and have thus been able to do something good for ourselves and the environment.

At the end, everyone always proudly presents their haul: the filled bright red bin bags. Ploggers attract attention and remind passers-by and pedestrians to dispose of their garbage properly. They may even motivate them to collect a little garbage themselves on their next walk.

The Audi Environmental Foundation was once again represented with several projects at the GREENTECH Festival 2023. As in the previous year, project partners of the environmental foundation and employees met again for a joint plogging session in Berlin, demonstrating their commitment to environmental protection even after the trade fair had closed. 

In September, we took World Clean-up Day as an opportunity to free the environment from garbage together with committed ploggers in Germany and Thailand. During the last hours of sunshine of the day, we plogged through Klenzepark in Ingolstadt together with employees of the city of Ingolstadt and through Stadtpark along the Sulm river in Neckarsulm. For the first time, dedicated ploggers were also out and about in Bangkok as part of our cleanup mission with the garbage collection boat in Thailand.

Another highlight was the joint plogging with FC Ingolstadt 04 and Audi BKK. After a short warm-up, we set off jogging. The route ran around the Auwaldsee lake and everyone was very enthusiastic. The participants from the soccer club and the health insurance company found the dual benefit of the activity ideal, as plogging combines the two aspects of picking up litter for the environment and doing something good for your own health by jogging together.

With around a dozen plogging campaigns carried out, a major contribution was made to keeping Ingolstadt's paths and popular jogging routes clean. Ingolstadt's municipal services have honored this campaign in 2019 and 2022.