On Saturday, June 5 Ekopak marked the World Environment Day in an appropriate way.

Ekopak representatives in cooperation with students from Student Center Bjelave. Sarajevo cleaned green areas in front of the dormitory, planted a beautiful flower island, set up containers for separate collection of packaging waste and introduced the this Student Center into Ekopak recycling system.

Through its activities, Ekopak develops awareness about importance of environmental protection and implements actions with citizens. It is through this activity on World Environment Day that we want to raise awareness about importance of packaging waste recycling and environmental protection in general.

"In order to establish a system of separate collection and recycling of packaging waste, it is necessary to work in two directions at the same time. One is the education of the population where we try to bring out the importance of change in the treatment of packaging waste closer to the citizens. That is why Ekopak carries out activities with children and young people. Because it is from them that the change and acceptance of a new culture of living begins, which means the separate disposal of packaging waste ", said Amela Hrbat, Managing Director of Ekopak.

Despite the extremely challenging situation due to the coronavirus pandemic, Ekopak with its partners - consisting of 21 collectors from all over the Federation of BiH and on behalf of more than 700 producers, importers, distributors and traders who transferred the obligation to manage packaging and packaging waste, send 11,911 tons of packaging waste for recycling. Since its establishment in 2012, Ekopak has sent a total of close to 90,000 tons of packaging waste for recycling.

Ekopak is a non-profit company founded in 2012 with the aim to take responsibility for fulfilling legal obligations in recycling and utilization of packaging waste in Federation of BiH on behalf of clients of packaging manufacturers, importers, fillers, distributors and traders.