Environmental education and public educational campaigns – Interzero report for 2023

As Interzero Packaging Recovery Organization SA and Interzero Electrical and Electronic Equipment Recovery Organization SA, we carry out educational campaigns for entrepreneurs who have entrusted us with their obligation to recover packaging as part of the statutory obligation. We invite you to read the report of our educational activities in 2023.

In 2023, we were actively involved in the implementation of educational projects and campaigns addressed to both children and youth, as well as adults, including entrepreneurs and consumers.

• As part of the Eco no edges project, we educate Poles in the field of ecology, environmental protection and waste segregation. We have produced 7 podcast episodes (also available on Apple Podcasts , YouTube and Spotify ) and have also managed to gather a wide reach on our social media profiles on Facebook and Instagram .
• EcoPaka , i.e. educational materials for schools, containing lesson plans, coloring books, games and art materials related to raw materials, were sent to 120 kindergartens that were most active in the local government’s Bicycle May campaign.
• We have also prepared our own educational game ‘Action-faction!’ , which teaches children and adults about proper waste segregation in an accessible way. The game was available at events supported by Interzero.
• As part of cooperation with the Mama Projekt collective, we became a substantive patron of one of the rooms of the newly opened Punkt Zwrotny educational center at ul. Jagiellońska 88 in Warsaw, where children and teenagers learn the secrets of fast fashion and learn about packaging. We also support the traveling exhibition EkoExperymentarium , which was visited live by over 13,000 people last year alone. visitors and 499 thousand online players.
• Together with the Museum of Photography in Krakow, we implemented it project “Closed circuit. “Waste in photography”, based on journalism and photography workshops, and together with UNEP/GRID-Warszawa – a series of workshops in the Royal Łazienki Park and an exhibition of 10 collages encouraging to reduce the amount of waste. The exhibition can be rented via the Spółdzielnia portal.
• We also organized many attractions during the next edition of the Zero Waste Fair , and we substantively supported three thematic days in the Preschooler’s Calendar program run by the To Proste Foundation and Intersnack in the “Don’t throw away, use” program.
• Once again, together with UNEP/GRID-Warszawa and the Czepczyński Family Foundation, we became a partner of the educational program implemented by the Maspex group , Kubusiowi friends of nature , which has been operating for 16 years and has reached 10 million children.

As part of the educational activities of entrepreneurs, Interzero has prepared 8 online training courses in the field of reporting, changes dictated by the transposition of the SUP directive or waste management, as well as other training courses available on the Interzero Academy platform. The 10th anniversary edition of the Interzero Environmental Conference was also held, for the first time in an open format, where we focused mainly on SUP and the establishment of a deposit system. Our experts have appeared in debates and other publications from such titles as Forbes, MyCompany and Rzeczpospolita, as well as in industry magazines (Teraz Środowisko).

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