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The Green Initiative Association and its partners, including the RoRec Association, organised on Friday, 21st May, the ‘Terra, our only home’ Awards Gala Ceremony, dedicated to the schools and high schools which obtained the best results in the project’s 2009 – 2010 edition. The ceremony took place at the ‘Gheorghe Şincai’ National College in Bucharest and gathered the members of project teams representing the 15 secondary schools and high schools in the...

Faithful to the strategy promoting the actions organised by our association and by its members, the RoRec team has created a new section on our site www.rorec.ro. This is ‘the media room’, a space where we meet our readers and a continuously updated source of information regarding the latest news about the association. All news can be found here, with the latest at the top, so the history of the activities can be easily followed. The <Press Releases> section contains official...

The Romanian Association for Recycling RoRec is happy to announce that the number of drop-off centres for used batteries and portable accumulators has increased. There are now over 250 locations in Romania where consumers can bring used batteries. ‘We are delighted that our partners are open to the RoRec Association’s Project for the collection of portable accumulators and batteries, so our network is expanding all the time. As of May, we have increased the number of...

Our ‘Invitation to Recycling’ Programme has a prestigious ambassador. Analia Selis has joined the town hall partnerships campaign dedicated to setting up RoRec Drop-off Centres, because she strongly believes that awareness-raising activities are needed in order to change old mentalities.   As she has recently become a Romanian citizen – having passed the citizenship exam – Analia Selis has now an additional reason to support this campaign.   ‘Here...

For many of us, getting rid responsively of waste electrical and electronic equipment can be a problem in the absence of a space dedicated to selective collection. This is why the Romanian Association for Recycling RoRec continues to extend the WEEE Drop-off Centres Network all over Romania, coming up with initiatives which allow for continuous WEEE collection. One such initiative is to ensure that Drop-off Centres work permanently in as many of the towns where RoRec has launched partnerships...

At the end of March, the partnership between RoRec and the Hunedoara Town Hall setting up WEEE Drop-off Centre no. 13 was launched. The people from the neighbouring town, Deva, got involved as well, so we managed to gather almost 6.5 metric tons of WEEE, meaning over 608 appliances handed over by 367 people. This campaign was further proof that the involvement of the local authorities, particularly the Town hall team led by Mayor Ovidiu Hada, can make a difference. Thus Hunedoara has joined...

Finmedia organised in mid-March a conference entitled ‘Competitive and efficient waste management at national level’, on a range of topics that are extremely important for Romania’s future evolution, from an environmental point of view: waste management in Romania and financial aspects of the waste market at national level. The Romanian Association for Recycling RoRec was invited to participate at this event and presented a series of viable solutions to one of the major...

More than 100 representatives of local authorities in Transylvania as well as representatives of the civil society gathered in Cluj at the Local Public Administration Symposium, organised by BTL Design together with the Romanian Local Authorities Federation and the Association of Romanian Municipalities.   The Romanian Association for Recycling RoRec, as official partner in the event, brought to the fore the waste electrical and electronic equipment Drop-off Centres, as a waste...

On 20 April, the well-known magazine ‘The Diplomat’ organised the second edition of an important event for the environment, the National Waste Management Forum. The Romanian Association for Recycling RoRec was one of the event’s supporters.   The meeting was opened by Mr. Mircea Ioan Cotosman – Secretary of State in the Ministry for the Environment and Forestry – who underlined the government’s concern with regard to the transposition into the...

The agenda aimed to include many activities, in order to answer concerns related to a wide range of issues. Some of the technical committees meetings took place in parallel with those of the specialised working groups. The collection project was discussed in the plenary meeting and it was an item of great interest for the associations represented here, as it was to be expected in the context of the challenge facing producers as the European Directive is being revised. The reports on the...