“Flowers for Garbage” in Pazardzhik collected thousands of kilograms of waste for recycling

Nearly 600 people joined the Pazardzhik Municipality’s “Flowers for Garbage” campaign. Textiles, plastics, paper and electronics were collected during the initiative for separate collection and recycling of waste.

In just a few hours, campaign participants collected 540 kg of textiles and 280 kg. Plastic, more than 1,400 kilograms of paper and 2,060 kilograms of obsolete electrical and electronic equipment, with which a new record was achieved in the initiative that has become a tradition in Pazardzhik.

Thousands of flowers, saplings and bags of compost were distributed to the participants by the municipality in gratitude for the responsible separate collection of waste, which became the subject of the campaign days before the International Earth Day.

All waste has been sorted and removed with the assistance of partners of the Pazardzhik municipality and will be recycled as part of a program to promote environmentally friendly behavior of institutions and society. The whole world celebrates Earth Day, which this year is held under the title “Planet against plastic”, raising the increasingly important topics for society – climate change, environmental protection and biodiversity.