CSR projects of the Plopsa Group

To help our employees sort even better, we set up waste islands at strategic locations. Here, all employees can dispose of different types of waste. It is a similar system to the bins you can find in the stations. We focus on the selective collection of PMD, paper and cardboard, organic waste and residual waste. But we have also had separate collection points for electronics, batteries, green waste and surplus food from our catering outlets for several years now. With these waste islands, we hope to raise the company's recycling rate even higher and thus be able to recycle even more waste.

Through various means, we try to support several charities with our proceeds. We do this in a few different ways. For example, we support individual charities such as Move For Life, Make-A-Wish, Everyone Deserves Holidays and so many others. Besides individual charities, we also participate in Trooper. That is a platform where various local associations can earn an extra penny from sales through their platform. For every ticket sold through their platform, Plopsa donates a piece of the proceeds to that association. A win-win for both parties.

A lot of items are unfortunately left behind after visiting one of our parks. When we fail to find the owners after a while or the lost items are not collected, we collect them to donate to charity. For instance, clothes and similar items are collected for various poverty organisations near our parks and electronics are collected for the Cliniclowns.

During the Police Band Days, our visitors could enjoy various demonstrations by Police, Fire Brigade, the White Yellow Cross and Defence. In this way, we not only introduce children to the various emergency services disciplines, but also bring them closer together. Our visitors were given a lot of information on how the disciplines work and what exactly the emergency services can do for them.

Over the years, we have already made many efforts to generate our own sustainable green electricity. However, we are taking this effort one step further by doubling our solar panel capacity. Additional solar panels will be installed on our Plopsaland De Panne, Plopsaland Village, Plopsaqua Landen-Hannuit and Plopsa Coo Ardennes sites. With these, we are trying to meet our increasing need for electricity ourselves and generate energy in a sustainable way.

Commitment to quality education is one of the 17 UN sustainability goals. To further pursue this, we have several sustainability panels in our queues together with Eneco. We also commit to different types of ‘classes’ in our parks. For instance, we have spread across all our sites: energy classes, traffic classes, farm classes, bee classes and dino classes. We use this offer mainly for our youngest visitors, but we also work closely with various colleges and universities to help train young people and offer them the chance to take an instructive internship within our magical Plopsa classes. This also includes training our staff on Plopsa's sustainability policy.

At our sites in De Panne, Landen-Hannuit and Holiday Park Germany, we have built our own water treatment plants. Thanks to these installations, we have already purified 25 000m³ of water ourselves, which we can reuse in our parks. In this way, we reduce our primary water consumption and relieve the burden on local water treatment plants. Our plants remove organic pollution load, nitrogen and phosphorus from wastewater. Thus, we are fully committed to water treatment and quality and reduce our ecological footprint even further.