Life projects
Project name: LIFE E-waste management
Slogan: E-cycle
Year of implementation: 2016 – 2020
Co-financed by: European Commission / Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning of RS
Purpose and objectives:
- Raising awareness of the target groups on the importance of proper management of WEEE/WPBA and contributing to a change in their behaviour
- Establishing an infrastructural network throughout Slovenia to make separate collection of WEEE/WPBA easier and more accessible
- Organising various activities and supporting events
Target groups:
- households
- consumers (youths, families, senior citizens)
- general and international public
Activities:
- Green corners: establish an infrastructural network for collecting WEEE and WPBA in larger stores selling EEO throughout Slovenia
- Street collection bins: establish an infrastructural network for collecting WEEE and WPBA at waste bin areas throughout Slovenia
- Mobile collection: providing the opportunity for correct disposal of WEEE and WPBA in rural areas, where the population is dispersed and the options for disposal are limited
- Other activities (competition, professional meetings, conferences etc.) and supporting events
Project name: Slovenian OEEO campaign
Slogan: Separate out
Year of implementation: 2011 – 2013
Co-financed by: European Commission / Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning of RS
Purpose:
- Long-term awareness raising for target groups
- Monitoring of positive effects of the correct management of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) and waste portable batteries and accumulators (WPBA)
- Raising awareness of the target public on correct management of WEEE and WPBA
- Increasing the quantity of collected WEEE and WPBA in RS.
Target groups:
- Students and their teachers
- Households throughout Slovenia
Activities:
- E-transformer: travelling classroom with a multimedia demonstration of the process of correct management of WEEE and WPBA / over 210 participating educational institutions throughout Slovenia
- ECO terminals – recycled terminals from health facilities with the awareness-raising quiz application / 80 ECO terminals installed (application)
- Open door day: action with local public waste management companies / raised awareness in 65% of all households in Slovenia
- WEEE conference: conference for the professional public
European Commission awarded the project with the title Best of the Best in the field of environmental education and informing..
