The project “Recycling the paper in elementary schools”

This project started in November 2003 by organizing the competitions in elementary schools in Canton Sarajevo, Pale, Trnovo and Prača.  This project lasted for six months and around 30.000 kg of used paper was collected. The aim of this project was to educate children in elementary schools about the necessities of the recycling and other aspects of environmental protection.

The project ended in June 2004 by the manifestation “Urban Green Days” which was the symbolic action of planting trees in front of two elementary schools (those who won second and third place in competition) in Pale and the visiting the protected area of Bijambare Caves, around 20km from Sarajevo, with hundred students from the school which won the first place. This area where these caves are located is treated like the protected sightseeing.
Actions of planting trees were covered in media.
This project was organized by “Ekotim” with the participation of “UM” Pale, “UM” Trnovo with the support of UNV/UNDP and OSCE.

Broshure published in this project can be downloaded here in .pdf form.