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.
“We recognise the importance of local government and private businesses, as well as all of the public, to come together to make a positive difference to the local environment. In 2010 and beyond we look forward to announcing and delivering a range of Green & Clean services, to benefit all of us who live and work in Lemesos and enjoy its environment.”
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About Green Machines
Green Machines are versatile sweepers allowing you to clean congested sidewalk, parking lot, road or downtown areas beyond the reach of larger and more traditional street sweepers. Green Machines are compact suction sweepers used throughout the world for cleaning outdoor shopping malls, pedestrian streets, sidewalks, roads and other high litter areas where larger more traditional street sweepers can't reach. Feel free to browse our website to learn how the Green Machine range of sweeper machines can clean any sidewalk, parking lot, road, downtown areas and any other congested outdoor areas that you may have to clean. For further information, please visit: www.greenmachines.com.
About Lemesos Municipality
Lemesos is the second biggest town of Cyprus and the biggest Municipality. After the tragic events of the Turkish invasion occurred in 1974, it has become one of the greatest Mediterranean harbours for the transhipment of goods. Since 1974, Lemesos has developed rapidly and is actually one of the most important maritime, commercial, tourism and service centres in the area.
Lemesos is also known for its long tradition in cultural issues. It gives the possibility to the visitors to attend a great number of activities and visit many museums and archaeological sites, which they are interested in so far and it combines, in a unique way, ancient, Frank, Byzantine and other modern historic influences.
For more information, please visit: http://www.Lemesosmunicipal.com.cy/index_en.html.
About FxPro
FxPro is the brand name of FxPro Financial Services Ltd. Founded in 2006, FxPro is a leading global company competing in the forex markets, trading in derivatives with the use of leverage. Our goal is to become the world’s preferred FX broker, while at the same time achieving high returns for shareholders. FxPro is authorised and regulated by the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission and operates under the EU Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID). We serve clients in more than 120 countries, with trading and customer support 24 hours a day, five days a week. For further information, please visit www.FxPro.com.
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