10.07.2010.
Within "Collection and separation of municipal solid waste (a pilot project in Icheri Sheher)" project in partnership with "Tamiz Shahar" JSC we are carrying a program on creation and usage of the design eko-bags. The project of "EkoSfera" is implemented within the framework of Civic Action for Security and Environment (CASE) Small Grants Programme administered by the OSCE Office in Baku and financed by Statoil and the Government of Austria.
Unfortunately, an urban progress and development of trade in Azerbaijan causes that the amount of plastic packaging and the packets is constantly growing. It is convenient and advantageous to both buyers and sellers of retail trade. But we should keep in mind that the packaging of synthetic polymers hardly degradable under natural conditions. While leaving the city, we often see how all the open spaces are gradually transformed into "plastic fields". On average the plastic bag is in use some half an hour, and then became rubbish on the ground.
The topic of banning or reducing the use of a plastic bag is worldwide under the discussion. But what is the best replacement? In each study, which measures the environmental, economic and social impact of handbags, the reusable bags became winners over the simple bags in each category. They even became known as "eko-bags".
Our "Eko-bags designer" campaign is held under the slogan: "I am against plastic bag!"
First of all we hope to attract the attention of youth (as well as through the children - their mothers, women, women customers) to the gradual replacement of plastic bags with reusable shopping bags, and the participation of some supermarkets in Baku and Sumgait in "anti-plastic package" campaign.
The representatives of the international meeting in Gabala were the first participants of the campaign. Edith Wenger from Belgium, Veronica Kiss from Hungary, Johannes Forster from Germany during our trip to Gala on July 9 decorated eko-bags with nature conservation and biodiversity subject-matter pictures.
On July 10 the participants of the SAMP working meeting while visiting our organization creatively made their eko-bags on the interrelationship between culture and environment subject. They were: Elizabeth Cordova-Lao, Monaliza Diez, Reynaldo Sarona, John Cris Kendall Katalbas from the Philippines, Chance Adam Ezekiel, Annastasius Liwewa, Vivien Nsao Shalua, Gertrude Patrick Mtenga from Tanzania, Juan Azcarate from Colombia, Kedar Uttam and Elisabeth Olofsson from Sweden. Together with them worked the representatives from Azerbaijan: Alla Bayramova, Nigar Allahverdiyeva, Ilona Knyazihina, Gulara Alakbarova, Lana Khasanova, and Ruhiyya Ismayilova.
