Since 2008, Alcoa has invested more than US$23 million in environmental nonprofit organizations such as Conservation International, Global ReLeaf, The Nature Conservancy, World Resources Institute and World Wildlife Fund.
Green Works service projects around the world:
Brazil: Across the country, Alcoa volunteers are planting trees, encouraging recycling and educating students about how to protect the environment.
Canada: Employees are participating in the largest awareness-raising and mobilization campaign for the fight against climate change in Quebec. In support of Alcoa’s Ten Million Trees program, 4,200 trees will be distributed to employees and five tree planting activities will be completed this spring.
China: Alcoa Beijing, Bohai and Kunshan employees are partnering with community-based organizations to plant trees in Alcoa communities.
Europe: Alcoa employees in Germany will clean a forest in the community of Kelkheim and engage in several ACTION projects focused on environmental issues. In Hungary, Alcoa volunteers will host an electronics recycling drive, landscape schools and participate in a neighborhood clean-up.
Jamaica: Jamalco is partnering with Protect the Environment Trust and Hear the Children Cry to launch an on-site recycling program.
Russia: Alcoa employees in Samara are partnering with local schools to help them green their territories. Volunteers in Belaya Kalitva are continuing their signature project at the center for elderly and disabled people, a big part of which is landscaping. Alcoa employees in Moscow are participating in the annual Moscow Parks Festival and planting trees in a local park.
United States: Lancaster, PA, employees and community members are planting a blight resistant American chestnut breeding orchard. In Davenport, Iowa, more than 5,000 trees will be distributed to Alcoa employees as part of the Alcoa's commitment to plant 10 million trees by 2020. Alcoa Intalco Works had its second annual electronics recycling drive in celebration of Earth Day.
Learn more about Alcoa Foundation's focus on the Environment and commitment to bring about meaningful and systemic improvements in environmental sustainability by supporting research, dialogue, standards, and actions.
