RecycleGames – the largest educational program to support the collection and recycling of electrical waste and batteries in Slovakia arrived to the new school year with a new partner - Orange Slovensko - and a special SMS competition – “Starý Mobil Sem” (Bring your old cell phone).

Every year, only 20% of the generated electrical waste is recycled in the world, whereas up to 80 percent of the material can be recycled from each electric appliance. Producer responsibility organisation ASEKOL SK invites you to the International eWaste Day with the main mission to promote recycling and to educate the general public on the correct handling of waste electrical and electronic equipment.

On 10th-11th October 2018, the eleventh annual exhibition of consumer electronics and home appliances called FAST DAY 2018 was held in Zvolen. This exhibition also involved an interactive training which was intended for the professional public - retail customers and business partners of FAST PLUS s.r.o.

The International eWaste Day shall also help in the fight for recycling. The International Association of Electronic and Electrical Waste Collection Systems the WEEE Forum announced the 13th of October as the International eWaste Day. The initiative was joined by 20 countries, including the Slovak Republic, through ASEKOL SK, the only Slovak member. The main idea of this initiative is to promote the recycling of electrical waste and to educate the general public in this area.

The first week of September was announced by the European association of national collection schemes for batteries EUCOBAT as the European Week of Battery Recycling. The purpose of this event is to raise public awareness of the need to sort and recycle used batteries. The Slovaks quickly learned how to handle the used batteries. Since 2015, the ASEKOL SK organization helped sort and recycle 495,278 kg of used portable batteries.

Producer responsibility organisation ASEKOL SK, a member of the European Association EUCOBAT, is pleased to invite you to the European Week of Battery Recycling in Bratislava.

Producer responsibility organisation ASEKOL SK become the partner of Fabulous Castle for the sixth time. This event took place at the Bojnice castle.

Banská Bystrica is the second county city where special red and white containers are placed for sorting and collecting, especially small electrical appliances, such as hair dryers, mixers, cell phones, batteries and accumulators.

The closure of a sale of a 100% equity stake in RETELA, s.r.o. between the Electrical and Electronic Association of the Czech Republic (EIA) and ASEKOL on 27 April 2018 completed the process of selecting the best candidate among the parties interested in taking over all the business activities and obligations connected with operating the RETELA compliance scheme. The EIA owned RETELA from its foundation in 2005.