WIthin the project “Not In My Back Yard”, workshops with stakeholders (local communities and NGOs, and students at the Elementary School “Vladimir Pavlović”) were held.
The workshop for local communities and NGOs was organized in the Hotel “STORIJA” – Tasovčići in the presence of representatives of the Center for Civic Cooperation from Livno.
The main goal of the project is: “To contribute to efficient waste management at the level of the City of Čapljina, with the integration and creation of a common policy of waste management and treatment at the level of Herzegovina-Neretva Canton“.
The participants were introduced to the issue of waste management by scientific and professional associates who presented the topics:
- sc. Marlena Ćukteraš – Waste recycling and management;
- Zdenko Mandić – recycling yards and regional centers for waste disposal;
- Elma Zukić – application of new technologies in waste collection.
The main goal of the workshop was to bring closer, to acquaint key stakeholders about the system of collection, selection, recycling, final disposal of waste to new technologies used in waste collection.
Demystify the NIMBY Effect Syndrome – Not In My Back Yard that occurs to locals at the slightest thought of waste being dumped near them.
Education and concretization of the problem of waste management until its final disposal are crucial for every local community, including the City of Čapljina, which has been fighting to solve this problem for many years.
Little attention is paid to this topic, although it affects all local communities, and that local media and JKP Čapljina in cooperation with NGOs and city administration must devote more time to education and raising public awareness of this problem.
One of the key elements in this whole process is continuous education of local stakeholders, students and businesspersons to establish a single database on quantities and illegal landfills to establish a green phone as a tool for reporting all illegal actions on natural resource devastation and environmental pollution.
Students of the Elementary School “Vladimir Pavlović” Čapljina had an opportunity to find out more about waste, selection and recycling and the ways and possibilities of including them in the whole process of waste management.
The school, teachers and students expressed great interest in this workshop and supported the initiative to get involved in solving this problem through concrete actions to collect secondary raw materials (paper, plastic and glass packaging, various types of nylon and plastic bags).
The lecturers supported the students’ initiative and promised to provide one such project initiative of the school and students about their concrete participation and contribution to environmental protection in the area of the City of Čapljina.
