Jörg and Laura Wontorra not only share sport as a common passion. It is particularly important for father and daughter to protect the environment.
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree: Like her father Jörg (74), Laura Wontorra (33) has been working as a sports journalist for several years. But that’s not the only passion that the father-daughter duo shares: environmental protection and sustainability are also close to their hearts.
“I came into contact with the topic of environmental protection very early on,” explains Laura Wontorra as part of the educational initiative “Show team spirit. Recycle light.” by Lightcycle. Her mother was very careful to only buy organic quality and to separate waste properly. Environmental protection and sustainability also played a major role when I was at school. “That influenced me a lot.” Even as adults, environmental protection is still an important part of their everyday lives.
The biggest environmental sin for Laura Wontorra
According to Laura Wontorra, one of the most important aspects of environmental protection is avoiding food waste. A particularly formative experience for the 33-year-old: “I have just traveled to Africa and visited various villages there that are characterized by periods of drought and have no more land to grow food and almost no drinking water. (…) Climate change has already arrived.” It is therefore particularly important not to waste or throw away food. “We have to be very careful, sustainable and very careful with our food and our resources,” says Wontorra.
Father Jörg Wontorra sees it similarly: You have to reduce consumption in order to conserve resources. “We should make sure that we don’t cut down more trees than are replanted,” the sports journalist continued. “We shouldn’t produce more products than are used.” For him, throwing away food is “the greatest evil in the whole world.”
Recycling, for example of old lamps and lights, is also very important. Because: Up to 90 percent of the components of old lamps can be recycled. If you lined up all the lamps that are recycled in Germany every year on the edge of a soccer field, you could surround 100,000 soccer fields. Together with Lightcycle, father and daughter Wontorra show how easy it is to put old or defective LED lamps back into circulation.
Dispose of old lamps properly: Here’s how
With a high quality of the lamps, unnecessary waste can be easily avoided. The higher the quality of lamps and lights, the more sustainable they are. Because lamps made of durable materials usually shine longer. Good LED lights often last at least ten years. But if they stop glowing, it’s time for recycling.
LEDs and energy-saving lamps do not belong in household waste – they should be handed over to an environmentally friendly collection point. Numerous hardware stores, drugstores and electronics stores offer old lamps to be returned free of charge. Consumers can find an overview of participating shops on the sammlungstellensuche.de website.
Source: Stern
I am an author and journalist who has worked in the entertainment industry for over a decade. I currently work as a news editor at a major news website, and my focus is on covering the latest trends in entertainment. I also write occasional pieces for other outlets, and have authored two books about the entertainment industry.
