packaging waste

A major cleanup action was organized at Pionirski Grad in Belgrade’s Košutnjak forest by Ekostar Pak and the SBB Foundation under the auspices of the Ministry of Environmental Protection to…

North Macedonia will soon be catching up with the global trend of waste recycling through deposit refund schemes as local packaging waste management firm Pakomak is preparing to install the…

Coca-Cola has revealed for the first time it produces 3 million tonnes of plastic packaging a year – equivalent to 200,000 bottles a minute, The Guardian has reported. The data…

Serbia has handed the second draft negotiating position for chapter 27 to the European Commission, and the authorities expect the opening of the chapter, which deals with the environment, to…

Serbian Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA) Director Filip Radović has announced that the introduction of a deposit system in Serbia to regulate the return and disposal of packaging waste could be…

As cities around the world start deploying deposit systems, Istanbul, with a population of nearly 15 million, has taken its efforts to increase recycling rates a step further. It now…

Slovenia’s Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning has drafted a bill aimed at tackling the problem of piled up packaging waste and tomb candles at waste management utilities by…

A lack of a reliable and simple recycling system and unmotivated users result in a low percentage of recycled packaging waste. Serbia’s Solagro, a participant in this year’s clim@ competition…

Sokobanja has become the first city in Serbia to put in place a complete source separation system for packaging waste, as part of a project jointly implemented by the municipality…

The Association for Packaging and Environmental Protection (SEPEN) has been admitted to the membership of the European Organization for Packaging and the Environment (EUROPEN). EUROPEN brings together industries from the…

Author: Prof. Dr Aleksandar Jovović, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Waste is first of all a community and health hazard, and secondarily a resource – the problem needs…

Macedonia is still far from its goal of recycling 60 percent of packaging waste by the year 2020 and the Association of Secondary Raw Materials Collectors and Recyclers wants to…