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Hunedoara is home of one of the most beautiful and well-kept castles in Romania, but also for a WEEE collecting center, established by RoRec in March, in partnership with the local municipality. „The Hunedoara city hall has entered, on March 26th, 2010, the first county-wide partnership with the RoRec Association, on establishing a WEEE Drop off centre, within the RoRec’s WEEE Drop off Centers National Network. It’s vital, for mankind’s future, that selective...

RoRec, the Romanian Association for Recycling, has had an active contribution to the actions organized as part of the Romania’s Green Capital project, which took place in Cluj Napoca, Braşov and Sfântu Gheorghe over the last month, benefitting from the support of the local authorities. The RoRec volunteers have established temporary drop off points in the three cities. Each stage of the programme lasted for three days. Over 600 deponents have turned in old or out-of-order...

In the last week-end of September, the RoRec team also went to Sinaia, for the Sinaia Forever Festival. There we have collected WEEE, for three days, in the RoRec Drop off centre, established in partnership with the Sinaia Municipality, and also in a temporary drop off center placed in the festival area. The people in Sinaia have appreciated a RoRec WEEE drop off centre being set up in their town, as well as the WEEE harmfulness informing and awareness actions carried on by the team of...

RoRec, the Romanian Association for Recycling, has been directly involved in the Bucharest City Marathon on October 17th. Several thousand amateur athletes have attended this event, while their supporters have remained by their side throughout the day. The RoRec Association has been directly represented, in this marathon, by our colleague Iuliana Niculescu, running with no. 10 t-shirt. „I chose to run in the colors of the association I represent, so as to send a message to the...

Starting September, the RoRec Association provides a new collection service, designed for WEEE collection from enterprises and institutions. By simply filling-in an online form on www.rorec.ro, the client can take the three steps to order their used equipment to be retrieved. The collection is accompanied by dedicated disposal papers. Orders are managed by the transportation team and are answered as soon as possible. Click here for the form. The new service has been promoted during the...

RoRec, the Romanian Recycling Association, has begun the October collection actions in Prahova and Ilfov counties. By the end of the month, RoRec and the local authorities have already planned more actions in Hunedoara, Călăraşi and Ilfov counties. With the support of Eurosun Power, RoRec has organized on October 9th two WEEE collection actions in the Prahova and Ilfov counties, in 21 localities, around the Drop off centers established in partnership with the municipalities from...

A new „Time to Go” campaign is taking place until the end of September in all DOMO and Technomarket retail chains. To get involved in this campaign, the buyer must return to one of the RoRec drop off centers, at one of the stores enlisted in this campaign, or to the transporter delivering the new product, a large and old house appliance in full integrity. Once the old appliance is delivered, the buyer has his/her effort rewarded. The benefit of 100 lei (VAT included) is associated...

We’d like to welcome our new members, Com Electro Construct and Power Electric, to the RoRec community. The two companies have joined our association in the last month. SC Com Electro Construct has been established in 1997, having as a main scope of activity the sale of electrical appliances and low, medium and high voltage equipments. Since 1998, it represents, on the Romanian market, several multinational brands.  

Teka, one of our association’s members, donated a dishwasher to General School no. 4 in Săcălaz, Timiş county, as a reward to the pupils who repeatedly got involved in WEEE collection activities. The pupils of the Săcălaz school, including those from the Step by Step special needs class – who prepared a collage illustrating the way they see the reduction of the carbon footprint – took an active part in information and greening activities organised by the Săcălaz...

The last in the series of conferences entitled ‘Solutions for local administrations in the context of the economic crisis’, organised by BTL Design in partnership with the Romanian Federation of Local Authorities, the Romanian Municipalities Association and the Association of Romanian Towns, took place at the end of June. More than 400 representatives of local authorities were present at the four conferences organised in Bacau, Cluj, Ploiesti and Timisoara. ‘We are here to...