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Spring 2018 / Issue 57
Spring 2018 / Issue 57
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a general paying organizations. If they
are not, they have to pay retroactively
and be sanctioned according to the law.
Also, utility companies should not become
an obstacle in the processes for primary
waste selection.
If we do not solve these problems, we
will hardly reach the European targets for
the quantities of recycled packaging waste
that we have an obligation as a country to
fulfil, which are much higher than those we
currently manage.
“The culture of separating and recycling
packaging waste is something to be nur-
tured continuously. Our results say that we
achieve progress and success year after
year, but until each household and catering
businesses adopt this common practice
we can’t claim that we have achieved our
goals. We are still in the process of devel-
oping an application of this idea. Through
various projects, we want to educate and
guide primarily the younger ones educating
them about the importance of recycling but
also informing the wider community.
It would be ungrateful to not feel satisfied
considering the overall progress from the
beginning to date. When we started this
eco-trip, we came across a situation on
the ground where the separation of waste
was at a very low level, and it the topic was
not subject of public discourse. Today the
issues are discussed and awareness has
been raised on a high level, but there is still
room for work.
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