Towards a sustainable lifestyle and greener environment, the GET-Green initiative aims to increase public awareness on the importance of environmental protection for a better quality of life. Programs under this pillar play a role in fostering environmental friendly lifestyle practices while introducing various green initiatives such as recycling and upcycling as well as effective waste management.
In commemorating the World Cleanup Day and World Ozone Day 2023 celebration, Great Eastern Takaful Berhad (GETB) participated in the cleanup activities at Pantai Saujana, Port Dickson as a part of its corporate social responsibility (CSR) efforts.
In collaboration with SMW Environment and Jabatan Alam Sekitar Negeri Sembilan, the beach cleanup activities and raising awareness about protecting the environment to the community involved over 360 volunteers various organisations including university students.
The volunteers collected a total number of 19,260 solid waste including cigarette butts, plastic utensil, plastic waste, water bottle as well as the bottle lid from the cleaning process that have been done.
Great Eastern Takaful took the opportunity to introduce its upcycling initiative and carried out the upcycling machine demonstration in hope to raise awareness on managing plastic waste and producing high-quality upcycled items from it.
Great Eastern Takaful Berhad (GETB) had conducted an environmental awareness briefing and introduced the upcycling initiative to a total of 257 students from SK Subang, Hulu Langat on 7 September 2023.
Great Eastern Takaful Berhad (GETB) was thrilled to be able to share the knowledge via the environmental awareness briefing whilst introducing the upcycling initiative to 183 students from SMK Abdul Jalil on 12 September 2023.
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Great Eastern Takaful Berhad (GETB) continues to embed the upcycling culture amongst employees by organising a GETB-wide upcycling competition called GET-Up Battle in its quest to encourage all employees to make good choices when it comes to managing plastic usage and waste.
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Great Eastern Takaful Berhad (GETB) was pleased to be able to raise awareness on the environmental preservation to more than 230 mySalam crews located in Putrajaya and Sarawak in March 2023.
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Along its environmental movement, GETB conducted an awareness programme to 100 students of SMK Lembah Subang on 26 January 2023, in collaboration with Eco Garage and Sea Monkey Project for an engaging environmental talk and hands-on activities to produce upcycled items and plastic pouch from different types of plastic waste.
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Themed 'dare to be different, we do it right', Great Eastern Takaful sets new Malaysia Book or Records with Malaysia’s largest turtle sand sculpture built in Cherating, Pahang in conjunction of its Agency Headstart 2023 event in January 2023. With the presence of around 1,200 agency force, the event witnessed the great
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Great Eastern Takaful in collaboration with Sea Monkey Project had organised an upcycling workshop for 167 students of University Malaya in December 2022.
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Great Eastern Takaful in collaboration with Sea Monkey Project organised an upcycling workshop with the local community and visitors of Taman Tugu Malaysia in October 2022.
Great Eastern Takaful had taken a more proactive step in curbing the issue of plastic pollution by holding several technical training sessions on the use of 2-in-1 upcycling machine among its employees.
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Tapping on the digital and sustainable business practices, Great Eastern Takaful (GETB) is taking a big step into embarking a sustainable business journey as per Value Based Intermediation Takaful (VBIT), rolled out by Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM).
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