"Let's Do It – Million Seedlings for 1 Day" Press Conference
For every ton of
cardboard packaging that Ekopak deliver for recycling saves 17 trees.
The press conference
took place in UN building in Sarajevo on the occasion of activity called: "Let's
Do It – Million Seedlings for 1 Day". It is a huge voluntary activity of tree
planting primarily dedicated to the reforestation of forest land, but also to tree
planting in parks, yards, etc. It will take one day of synchronized work in all
parts od B&H starting on Saturday, October 25th 2014 at 9:00am.
The activity is organized
by citizens Association „The Hands“ from Sarajevo and citizens Association „Mosaic
of Friendship“ from Banja Luka in partnership with the government sector,
public and private companies, schools/ universities and other non-governmental
organizations/associations, also supported by international community, academic
community, public and private media and dignitaries from social and business circles.
Ekopak has also
collaborated on previous Project: "Let's Do It – Clean the Country in 1 Day“
the spring's cleaning activity, the waste was selectively collected and
separated for the first time and Ekopak make sure that all waste collected is delivered
for recycling. Collaboration has continued on the project of tree planting, whereby
Ekopak focused on the importance of forest conservation – because it is much
more useful to use recycled materials for makeing new packaging then to use forest
trees, and on importance of separate waste disposal – in order to save the
trees by reycling the paper that would end up on landfills.