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Portal www.budiekofin.com (Novi Sad) and Centre for Sustainable Development (CENOR, Subotica) launched the "Say yes to eco bags - Kaži da eko torbama" campaign, aimed at raising the environmental awareness, and pointing out the plastic bags usage problem as well as the local eco-brand introduction - ecological bags made from recycled post-consumer PET bottles instead of plastic bags. Post-consumer PET bottles recycling made polyester fiber is widely used in the textile, automotive, and furniture industries, with Campaign donated eco bags to the citizens being 100% made out of the polyester fiber. Campaign was executed in cooperation with Greentech Ltd. Novi Sad, the plastics recycling company in the Novi Sad city center on Saturday, November 26 (between 11.00 and 16.00). All of the citizens of Novi Sad bringing at least two PET bottles and disposing them into Greentech/Sekopak dedicated bin received an ecological bag containing the Campaign slogan. Approximately 1.000 post-consumer PET bottles were collected, meaning that about 50 kg of post-consumer PET packaging were recycled in a Greentech’s Mladenovo facility. The Campaign round table held in the "Sonja Marinkovic" local community premises involved representatives from environmental organizations, the business sector and the media. Participants of the workshop dedicated to the possibilities of reducing the plastic bags usage utilizing the 3 R (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) principle were asked to make their recommendations in terms of creating good habits of citizens contributing to plastic bags pollution reduction, with further discussions on cooperation possibilities between civil, public and business sector on green ideas promotion as well as raising the public awareness on harmful plastic bags usage. The Campaign is supported by the Novi Sad City Administration for Environmental Protection and the Ministry of Environment, Mining and Spatial Planning. |
