Donate your deposit – A campaign by Faruk Ünal and the mail centre in Gutleutstraße

Mr Ünal has been supporting the Frankfurt Foundation for Children with Cancer for many years. At his employer – the Deutsche Post AG postal logistics centre in Frankfurt’s Gutleutstrasse – he noticed that employees often disposed of their returnable bottles on site without collecting the deposit. This gave him the idea that these bottles could be collected and the deposit donated. With the agreement of the shift manager, Mr Ak Sakal, a large cardboard box was built from existing materials and labelled with an appeal for donations for the Frankfurt Foundation for Children with Cancer. In the beginning, the bottles were placed individually in the supermarket deposit machines, but later, with the support of Metro in Frankfurt, they were handed in by the carton. The campaign ran for a total of 18 months. An impressive 2,150 euros were collected.

To ensure that the employees at the logistics centre also know where their deposit money goes, the two visited our research centre on their behalf and got an idea of the work on site. They also came up with the idea of establishing the deposit boxes in other postal centres.

We would like to thank Mr Ünal for this great campaign and all (bottle) donors for their great support for research into new cancer therapies for children and young people.

Photo (from left): Mr Faruk Ünal, Managing Director Mr Marcus Klüssendorf