Enhancing awareness & employment through recycling

Activities

Rodiek, a German recycling company, will provide its expertise to support a selected Serbian small-medium recycler to build its organisational and technical capacities. Jointly they will establish a sound business plan and develop options for additional recycling flows, including the identification of necessary technical equipment, mandatory skills, and standard operating procedures.

At the same time, Help – Hilfe zur Selbsthilfe e.V., an international non-government organisation, will identify informal waste collectors from vulnerable groups which shall eventually be employed through the Serbian recycling company. To enhance their capacities, the waste collectors will be trained and provided with adequate protective equipment to ensure secured working conditions.

Furthermore, an informative awareness-raising campaign on plastic waste will be created and launched in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia. Besides, sensitizing the population about plastic waste and its impact on the environment will also provide access to information about recycling centres that receive waste.

PREVENT Waste Alliance

PREVENT Waste Alliance serves as a platform for exchange and international cooperation. Organisations from the private sector, academia, civil society, and public institutions jointly engage for a circular economy. The PREVENT members contribute to minimising waste, eliminating pollutants, and maximising the re-utilisation of resources in the economy worldwide.

They strive to reduce waste pollution in low and middle-income countries and work together for the prevention, collection, and recycling of waste, as well as the increased uptake of secondary resources.

This project was selected in a call for innovative and scalable solutions to build a circular economy.

The PREVENT Waste Alliance was launched in 2019 by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development.