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July 2024 Trash Hero co-founder, Roman Peter, discusses the impact of plastic waste, including littering, health risks and the recycling industry’s deceptive practices. The article is in German but can be translated by all major browsers.

July 2024 Trash Hero Da Nang are featured in the Vietnamese national news and a popular YouTube channel. Both highlight the community spirit of the movement.

January 2024 A big beach and underwater cleanup organised by Trash Hero Kota Kinabalu was so impressive, it was featured in several Malay newspapers, who highlighted the community’s efforts and their 480kg haul of trash.

October 2023 Trash Hero Jakarta’s cleanup was featured on AFP news! Volunteers shared their motivations for reducing plastic pollution.

June 2023 The hard work of Trash Hero Pattaya is celebrated in this article. by Asia & Pacific CN news. They also highlight the need for collective action and community engagement

May 2023 Trash Hero Office Manager Vanessa Rieser shares some great tips for reducing plastic consumption in our daily lives and why the goal is not for everyone to be perfect but for everyone to try.

May 2023 In an interview with Beobachter Society  Trash Hero Co-founder Roman Peter shares an insight into his motivation to cleanup and what he does to reduce waste. [German article]

May 2023 Trash Hero Koh Mak discusses the need to reduce plastic production and limit tourist activity to protect the island. You can read the full article from Asia Nikkei here

May 2023 In an article in the South China Morning Post, Trash Hero Programme Director Seema Prabhu discusses how cleanups cannot solve plastic pollution, but are an important tool for educating local communities and holding corporate polluters accountable through collected data.

March 2023 Trash Hero Da Nang’s hard work running regular cleanups for over six months in Vietnam has been featured in a national newspaper, that praised their success in bringing together strangers to form a civic-minded community.

February 2023 “Let’s Recycle Glass Bottles” challenged primary schools to collect 10 tonnes of glass in a local competition. The goal was smashed, and a total of 24 tonnes was collected, with the help of Trash Hero Mersing at their weekly cleanups. The success of the initiative has inspired a yearly event.

October 2022 Trash Hero Basel shares their experience on a Swiss sustainability blog

August 2022 Trash Hero Mersing will help teach five schools about plastic pollution. Their great initiative was announced in The Star 

August 2022 Trash Hero Koh Phangan is featured in a sustainable travel blog as an activity to join to help tourists their impacts and give back to communities.

July 2022 Co-founder Roman Peter discusses Trash Hero’s visions and goals and how we plan to achieve them with The Good Initiative. Read the full article on their website

June 2022 Tele 1 reporters joined the Trash Hero Luzern volunteers at their 25th cleanup in the Swiss city. The team conducted a cleanup and a brand audit. A brand audit records information about the companies producing the plastic found at cleanups and contributes to global research on corporate polluters. The full video, currently only available in Swiss German, can be watched here

June 2022 Dragana Katić, the founder of Trash Hero Beograd, explains why citizens are not to blame for the current plastic crisis and what can be done to improve the situation. Read the full article in Balkan Green Energy News

April 2022 The Luzerner Zeitung publishes a story about Trash Hero World’s accreditation to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). The news is also featured in Pilatus Today [both articles in German only].

October 2021 The Bank of Thailand magazine, BOT Phra Siam, features Trash Hero as “inspiration” in its “Sustainability Issue”, with an interview with Trash Hero Bangkok’s Warawat Sabhavasu.

July 2021 Rahel Schaub, President of Trash Hero World, gives her perspective on a proposed ban on single-use plastic in Switzerland to news site, SWI Swissinfo.ch.

June 2021 Germany’s ZDF channel visits Bali and features Trash Hero Canggu’s volunteers in Hallo Deutschland, a mini documentary on visiting the island and its post-Covid recovery.

May 2021 Trash Hero’s action in Switzerland to collect discarded PPE is highlighted in Blick, the national news tabloid. The article also mentions  reusable masks as the wiser alternative [in German only].

May 2021 Dr. Nattapong Nithi-Uthai is featured in the Thai national press, with an interview in Thai Rath newspaper about his volunteering with Trash Hero Pattani and his social enterprise, Tlejourn, that creates shoes from waste collected on cleanups. [in Thai language only]

April 2021 The Swiss magazine, Tierwelt, interviews Trash Hero co-founder, Roman Peter, at the Trash Hero World headquarters in Luzern [German language only].

March 2021 National Geographic runs a story on a webinar held by the Indonesian government on the issue of waste during the pandemic, at which our Trash Hero Indonesia chairman, I Wayan Aksara, was a speaker [in Indonesian language].

March 2021 Trash Hero Bangkok volunteer, Warawat Sabhavasu (Bibb) is featured on the cover of Thailand Tatler magazine, along with other Thai “eco-warriors”. Inside, he recounts the story of how he was inspired to take action.

March 2021 Die Presse: Endet die große Party der Menschheit im Plastikflaschen-Kater? Die Trash Heroes schreiten ein – der Kampf gegen Plastikabfall durch gemeindebasierte Kräfte.

January 2021 The work of Trash Hero Indonesia in Bali is showcased by Deutsche Presse Agentur in an article in German, syndicated widely to, among others, Die Zeit and The Weather Channel [auf Deutsch: “Trauminsel versinkt im Unrat: Müllhelden von Bali kämpfen gegen Abfall-Alptraum an”]. February update: English version available in the South China Morning Post.

December 2020 The Saigon Times profiles Denise Truong, the leader of the recently formed Trash Hero Ho Chi Minh, our second chapter in Vietnam.

September 2020 French documentary makers Bluetopia interview Carl, the leader of Trash Hero Myanmar for a series called L’Autre Confort showcasing people taking positive action to stop plastic pollution.

August 2020 Channel News Asia reports on the success of the collaboration between Trash Hero Thailand and social enterprise, Tlejourn, that creates new shoes from discarded flip flops found on our cleanups.

August 2020 The amazing “Trash Hero Grandmas” of our Putrajaya chapter feature in the Malay Mail, who covered their Independence Day cleanup. The article is later picked up by Yahoo News.

August 2020 Trash Hero Freiburg are interviewed in the local newspaper, Badische Zeitung.

May 2020: The Taiwanese national cable TV station, Sanlih E-Television, visited Flores in Indonesia for its popular show “The Borderless World”. They featured the work of Trash Hero Komodo and interviews with some of the volunteers [in Chinese language].

May 2020: Trash Hero Jihlava are the subject of an article in Idenes.cz, the online platform of MF Dnes, Czech Republic’s popular national newspaper [Czech language only].

April 2020: On Earth Day, Trash Hero Bangkok is showcased on Facebook.com’s official social media account as an example of “communities coming together to create positive change.”

April 2020: German national TV station, ARD, features Trash Hero Langkawi in their documentary Sehnsucht Segeln, shown on Das Erste. The video is available online and the Trash Hero segment begins at 23 minutes.

April 2020: Hong Kong’s Green Queen includes Trash Hero Thailand in their article “How Asian Grassroots Activists Are Tackling The War On Plastic Waste“, as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story.

March 2020: Trash Hero co-founder, Jan Bareš, is interviewed for Denik.cz, an online magazine (Czech language only).

Feb 2020: Italy’s Corrierre Della Sera publishes a piece from journalist, Luca Zanini, about his experience volunteering with Trash Hero Koh Mak in Thailand (Italian only).

Feb 2020: The work of Trash Hero Ao Nang in Thailand is featured in an article in Germany’s Allgemeine Zeitung: “Thailands Müll-Helden” (German only).

October 2019: Indonesia’s Republik Online interviews Trash Hero Lembata’s leader, Theresia Wi, about the movement and their work in Nusa Tengara Timur (Bahasa Indonesia).

Sep – Dec 2019: One of Trash Hero Bangkok’s volunteers, Lilly, is featured in several global media outlets, for her personal campaigns against climate change and single use plastic. Her age and her focus see her dubbed as “Thailand’s Greta Thunberg”.
– ABC News, Australia
– South China Morning Post
– Agence France Presse
– Le Nouvel Obs (in French)

August 2019: The Bangkok Post covers the collaboration between our partner, Tlejourn and famous Thai shoe manufacturer, Nanyang. The upcycled, limited edition flip flop was produced with trash collected by our volunteers.

August 2019: NBC News publishes a feature and mini-documentary on plastic pollution in Bali, and efforts to combat it – including an interview with Trash Hero Kertalangu’s Putu Evie.

July 2019: The popular Thai kids’ news programme, Kids Tan Khao (คิดส์ทันข่าว) on the ThaiPBS channel interviews Trash Hero Hua Hin for a feature on plastic pollution (Thai language only).

The Thai language national newspaper, Daily News, runs a full page feature on Trash Hero, focusing on efforts in Langsuan.

May 2019: The Bangkok Post is impressed that the Provincial Chief Prosecutor of Prachuap Khiri Khan cleans beaches with Trash Hero on her day off.

March 2019: A report on the work of Trash Hero Beograd, filmed at one of their weekly cleanups from BBC News Serbia [in Serbian].

February 2019: Malaysia’s Star TV broadcasts a short feature on Trash Hero, filming a cleanup in Sungei Lui and interviewing one of our Malaysia coordinators, Faisal.

February 2019: News report on France’s TF1 channel about the closure of Maya Bay in Thailand, featuring Trash Hero Koh Phi Phi and their cleanup efforts on the islands [in French].

August 2018: Thailand’s Prime Minister features Trash Hero Thailand on his weekly address to the nation, Thailand Moving Forward. He praises their work and asks how big the impact would be if the whole country of 60 million were to become Trash Heroes.

July 2018: Trash Hero is featured on prime time TV, on the wildly popular Myanmar Idol! Part of the American Idol franchise, the show’s contestants did a cleanup and interview [starts at 24:00].

July 2018: Thomson Reuters Foundation interviews Trash Hero Indonesia Chairman, Wayan Aksara for a feature on Bali’s “garbage emergency”.

June 2018: BBC News “The Travel Show” interviews Trash Hero Songkhla leader, Yupin Limtrakool.

June 2018: UN Environment article on “5 Ocean Heroes” features Trash Hero alongside inspirational figures such as Stiv Wilson, Hugo Tagholm, Afroz Shah and Tiza Mafira.

January 2018: 247 Magazine cover story entitled “Trash Hero – Heal the World” (Thai language)

27 October 2017: Sky News “Sky Ocean Rescue” campaign – Meet Thailand’s Trash Heroes

September 2017: SWISS Magazine (Swiss Airways inflight publication) profile of Roman Peter, co-founder of Trash Hero.

September 2017: New Strait Times highlights the growth of Trash Hero Borneo.

June 2017: MYANMORE Magazine features Trash Hero Myanmar coordinator Phone Kyaw Moe Myint (Carl) in its cover story ” The Hero of Inla Lake” 

March, 2017: Thairat TV Thailand about Trash Hero Thailand.

January 5, 2017: An article in the Swiss Luzerner Zeitung about the launch of the Trash Hero @Work program.

December 17, 2016: Press release for the first office to embrace the Trash Hero @Work program.

November, 2016: Thairat TV Thailand about Trash Hero Thailand.

October 25, 2016: The Swiss newspaper Rontaler writes an article about the global movement and Trash Hero World’s vision of a world free from plastics.

June 14, 2016: Seed & Tell writes an article about our organisation and our launch in Bangkok.

August 08, 2015: Krabi Magazine publishes an article on the Ao Nang chapter

June 22, 2015: Article about the movement in the Bangkok Post

June 10, 2016: Article in the Bangkok Post about the new chapter in Bangkok

March 25, 2016: Krabi Magazine publishes an article about the Koh Lanta chapter

November 3, 2014: Announcement of 2014 Thailand Green Excellence Awards. Trash Hero Thailand’s press release here.

October 23, 2014: Article in local Swiss newspaper Regionalzeitung Rontaler AG

May 20, 2014: Wonderful article on the Matador Network about the founding and the progress of our project since the start.

January 31, 2014: The first ever documentation of our Trash Hero Mondays (after 4 Mondays) on the Backpacking Asia Network