🌍 Hand- / footprint
Making an impact together: Acting instead of just talking.
With Plastic Fischer, your company becomes part of the solution to plastic pollution - with a sustainable handprint and minimal footprint.
What does hand & footprint mean?
The sustainability debate is no longer just about reducing emissions (🦶footprint), but also about actively contributing to a positive impact (✋handprint).we help companies to combine both aspects - through sensible measures that specifically stop environmental pollution.
- Reduce footprint through CO₂ compensation, waste avoidance
- Increasing our handprint, e.g. by supporting projects such as Plastic Fischer, which actively remove plastic waste from rivers
🦶 The ecological footprint
Definition
The footprint describes the negative impact that a person, company or product has on the environment - specifically: the consumption of natural resources and the emission of greenhouse gases.
Examples of a footprint:
- CO₂ emissions from travelling, production or energy consumption
- Waste production
- Water consumption
- Surface sealing
Goal in sustainability management:
Reducing the footprint by increasing efficiency, avoidance and offsetting - classic example: CO₂-neutral operations.
✋ The ecological handprint
Definition
The handprint describes the positive contribution you make to solving global challenges beyond your own behaviour - in other words: how you actively do good.
The term was developed by the Centre for Environment Education (CEE) to expand the narrative from renunciation to active impact.
Examples of a handprint:
- Inspiring others to act more sustainably
- Introduce technologies or processes that conserve resources
- Support environmental protection projects financially or with personnel
- Create structures that have a long-term impact (e.g. cleanups, educational programmes)
Goal in sustainability management:
Increase your own handprint to not only cause ‘less harm’, but to do ‘more good’.
Application in the company
HR & CSR managers can use the handprint for e.g:
- Employer branding: Employees want to be part of a meaningful movement.
- Compensation measures with storytelling: instead of just planting trees, for example, visible rubbish is collected from rivers.
- Team events with impact: employees become co-creators of change.
Our offers for companies
Whether as a CSR measure, sustainable gift or team event - we offer various formats to make your commitment visible:
🎁 Sustainable employee gifts: e.g. donation certificates with customised branding
📊 Transparent impact measurement: You will receive reports and materials for internal & external communication
🌍 Plastic compensation for companies: Make targeted investments in our cleanups - e.g. per product, per employee or campaign
💛 100% traceable impact that Plastic Fischer makes in rivers in India & Indonesia
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✅ The most frequently asked questions about the ecological hand/footprint
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The footprint measures how much damage we do to the environment - e.g. through CO₂ emissions or resource consumption.
The handprint shows how we actively do something good - e.g. by removing plastic waste, inspiring others or creating positive structures.
Not quite. Traditional offsetting (e.g. CO₂ compensation by planting trees) compensates for damage.
A handprint project like ours goes one step further: it makes a concrete and immediate difference - regardless of your own consumption.
We attach great importance to transparency. You receive:
- Reports on the amount and type of plastic collected
- Photos and videos of the missions
- Certificates with your donation amount
- Materials for internal and external communication
🐠 Warum ist Plastic Fischer eine fundierte Lösung für dein Unternehmen, um Greenwashing zu vermeiden?
Du erhältst Nachhaltigkeit mit messbarem Impact:
- Wir entfernen Plastik aus Flüssen – direkt messbare Umweltwirkung, die du genauso kommunizieren kannst
- Du erhältst transparente Berichte über deine gesammelten Plastikmengen
- Wir übernehmen soziale Verantwortung - mit deiner Unterstützung sorgst du ebenfalls für lokale Arbeitsplätze und förderst nachhaltige Prozesse
- Wir integrieren deinen Impact in ESG-Berichte - Ideal für die rechtssichere und glaubwürdige Kommunikation von Umweltmaßnahmen
Unsere Partner:innen profitieren von messbaren Ergebnissen & glaubwürdiger Nachhaltigkeit.
Auf der Suche nach einer vertrauenswürdigen Partnerschaft?
Schreib uns und schaffe mit Plastic Fischer eine fundierte Basis für dein Nachhaltigkeitsmanagement und Employer Branding
💻 Komm jetzt mit Karsten in Kontakt und hol dir Beratung, für eine mögliche Zusammenarbeit
Alles unverbindlich. Kein Spam.
Karsten Hirsch
Geschäftsführer, Plastic Fischer GmbH
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