The amount of packaging waste is steadily increasing around the world, seriously damaging health, lives, the economy and the planet as a whole. It is precisely for this reason that the EU has decided to step in and tackle the problems associated with the increase in waste and the problems associated with fly-tipping. In 2019, […]

Late last year, the European Commission presented a proposal for a new packaging regulation. A few months later, in March 2023, the Commission also adopted a proposal for a Directive on environmental claims, which addresses the issues of greenwashing and consumer and environmental protection. The absence of common rules for companies making voluntary green claims […]

The Regulation on batteries and waste batteries contains a number of important changes. One of these changes is the introduction of stricter recycling requirements, collection and collection targets for batteries and accumulators. The Regulation provides that the producer of portable batteries or, where applicable, a producer responsibility organization (hereinafter referred to as PRO) acting on […]

In waste management, the smaller the waste, the more likely it is to end up where it shouldn’t. For example, in the wild, in public spaces, in mixed municipal waste, i.e. unused in a landfill or incinerator. This rule also applies, of course, to electrical appliances or e-waste. What are the main problems associated with […]

More than 263,000 kilograms of e-waste were collected in 2022 with the help of red-white containers, which are distributed in selected towns and villages in Slovakia. At the end of 2022, there were 323 red – white containers for the collection of small e-waste and waste batteries on the territory of Slovakia. This number of […]

The Batteries and Waste Batteries Regulation contains a number of significant changes, including a change in reporting to Member States. The Regulation defines minimum data reporting requirements in Article 75. Both producers and producer responsibility organizations will have to adapt their record-keeping to the new requirements and report the newly required data in a new […]

Late last year, the European Commission presented a proposal for a new packaging regulation, which brings with it a number of changes. Among them are new labelling requirements for packaging and packaging waste collection containers. In particular, the labelling changes relate to the introduction of an obligation to include a label on the packaging containing […]

According to the estimates of the producer responsibility organization ASEKOL SK, which deals with the collection and recycling of e-waste and batteries, more than 2 billion kg of electrical appliances have entered the Slovak market since 1993, generating approximately 1.5 billion kg of waste in that time. E-waste is the fastest growing type of waste […]

During the school year 2022/2023, 39 new schools signed up to Recyklohry, the environmental education programme of the producer responsibility organization ASEKOL SK, and Recyklohry recorded a total of 1,318 registered schools across Slovakia. The aim of the non-profit organization RECYKLOHRY is to educate pupils in schools through the creation of environmentally oriented tasks. This […]

The proposal for a regulation on batteries and waste batteries contains several changes, including the creation of a passport for batteries. The creation of a battery passport is intended to increase transparency and maximise the exchange of information, to enable the tracking and tracing of batteries, and to provide information on the carbon intensity of […]