BUSINESS BOJANA PERIĆ, GENERAL MANAGER, EKOSTAR PAK
We Create Preconditions For The
UTILISATION OF WASTE
Ekostar Pak is a national Operater of packaging waste management system. In terms of its number of clients, which exceeds 800, it is the Serbian market leader, with a market share of 34% in total amounts of packaging placed on Serbian market economy’s integration into the circular model. Finally, the willingness and readiness of all of us to approach waste responsibly, in accordance with regulations, but also natural law, ensures the cycle of the circular economy is complete. The European Union adopted an action plan in 2020 that should ensure that there are no emissions of greenhouse gases at the level of the entire European community by 2050.
In our country we should start introducing the model of collecting three separate categories of waste: paper/ cardboard, plastic/metal and glass
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omparative data collected over the course of the past decade show that the amount of waste recycled in Serbia by Ekostar increases every year. Provided the direction of growth is maintained, the full scope of national targets linked to the reduction of packaging and packaging waste could become achievable.
between these two models is reflected in the way they treat waste: does it end up dumped in landfill sites, where it slowly decomposes, polluting water, soil and air, before returning to nature; or does it, instead, through recycling, return to the production process to be used again for the same purpose or a similar one. The way waste circulates is dependent on all of us.
We often here talk of the circular economy, which is something that citizens actually know very little about. What lurks behind this notion? The circular economy represents the “product-waste-product” model and is an ecological alternative to the inefficient “take-make-use-discard” system. More simply put, the key difference
Is waste management the first step towards a circular economy? The state and institutions are creating a normative framework that should integrate circular economy principles from the local to the national level. The principle of extended responsibility of the producer towards the packaging in which its product is sold represents a key pillar for the
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Green Serbia 2022
With this goal in mind, the Government of the Republic of Serbia adopted its Programme of Waste Management in the Republic of Serbia for the 2022-2031 period, which should enable the creating of preconditions for utilising waste in the circular economy. This ambitious policy certainly famous numerous challenges in practise, but successful examples aren’t a rarity either. We often think that everything can be recycled. However, in order for waste to be able to become a resource, it is essential for its disposal to be controlled through the existence of clear rules of separation. If we carefully examine the packaging we use, we will see that every package displays codes in letters and numbers that the producer is obliged to highlight, as instructions for proper disposal following use. There are multiple benefits of adhering to this disposal rule. Could you illustrate that to us with some specific statistics?
