Environmental education and public education campaigns - Interzero report 2023

As Interzero Organizacja Odzysku Opakowań S.A. and Interzero Organizacja Odzysku Sprzętu Elektrycznego i Elektronicznego S.A., we carry out educational campaigns for entrepreneurs who have transferred their packaging recovery obligation to us as part of their statutory obligation. We invite you to read the report on our educational activities in 2023.

In 2023, we have been active in the area of implementing educational projects and campaigns aimed at both children and young people and adults, including businesses and consumers.

• As part of the project Eco-friendly without the frills, we educate Poles about ecology, environmental protection and waste segregation. We have realised 7 episodes of the podcast (also available in Apple Podcasts, YouTube i Spotify), and we were able to gather a wide reach on our social media profiles on Facebook i Instagram.
• EcoPakThe educational materials for schools, including lesson plans, colouring books, games and art materials related to raw materials, were distributed to the 120 nursery schools that were most active in the local authority campaign. Cycling in May.
• We have also developed our own educational game 'Action-fraction!which teaches young and old about correct waste segregation in an accessible way. The game was available at events supported by Interzero.
• As part of our collaboration with the Mamy Projekt collective, we became the content patron for one of the rooms of the newly opened education centre Turning point at 88 Jagiellońska Street in Warsaw, where children and young people learn the secrets of fast fashion and learn about packaging. We also support the travelling exhibition EcoExperimentarium, which was visited live by more than 13,000 visitors last year alone; and 499,000 online players.
• Together with the Museum of Photography in Krakow we realised The project "Closed Circuit. Waste in Photography", based on journalism and photography workshops, while with UNEP/GRID-Warsaw - the a series of workshops in the Royal Baths Park and an exhibition of 10 collages encouraging waste reduction. The exhibition can be hired via the Cooperative.
• We also organised many activities during the next edition of Zero Waste Fair, and we also provided content support for three themed days in the Kindergarten Calendar programme, run by the It's Simple Foundation and Intersnack in the 'Don't Throw Away, Use' programme.
• Once again, together with UNEP/GRID-Warszawa and the Czepczyński Family Foundation, we have become a partner in the educational program implemented by the Maspex Group. Winnie the Pooh friends of nature, which has been in operation for 16 years and has reached 10 million children.

As part of its business education activities, Interzero prepared 8 online training courses on reporting, changes dictated by the transposition of the SUP Directive or waste management, and other training courses available on the Interzero Academy platform. We also held the 10th Anniversary Edition of the Interzero Environmental Conference, for the first time in an open format, where we focused mainly on the topics of SUP and the establishment of a deposit system. Our experts appeared in debates and other publications from titles such as Forbes, MyCompany and Rzeczpospolita, as well as in trade magazines (Now Environment).

We encourage you to read the details of the report HERE.