Description: Awareness and collecting campaign in Slovenia.
In the Library of Mirana Jarca in Novo mesto, the library of things will come to life this November. Since its shelves are still quite empty, its organizers have decided to organize the collection campaign "Bring useful things for the library of things" in the second half of October (from October 14 until 27, 2023). All collected, still useful things will be received by the library, where they will be available for free borrowing by all citizens. We at ZEOS are just one of the coorganizers, others are also Red Cross Novo mesto, Association for the development of voluntary work Novo mesto, LokalPatriot, association Library of Things (from Ljubljana) and Komunala Novo mesto, d.o.o.. 

Description: Collection of waste batteries in central Slovenia. A large awareness-raising campaign and prize contest for collecting waste portable batteries and accumulators called "Bring old batteries" will take place in Ljubljana form October 1^st-20^th 2019. Within the campaign, collecting of old batteries from 38 registered primary schools in Ljubljana will take place, schools will compete for a grand prize, which is concert of musician Zlatko at their school. Zlatko is an ambassador for the Life e-waste management project and a popular musician among youths in Slovenia. Campaign also includes school staff, parents, relatives, friends and colleagues. Concerts will be won by the school that will collect the most waste batteries, the school that will collect the most waste batteries per pupil and the school that organizers believe will make the most of their efforts to disseminate campaign information through its channels. Campaign coordinators at each school will also be rewarded.

The campaign can also be attended by all individuals, who can contribute their old batteries and shall be rewarded for their efforts. With several collection points, available for the disposal of waste batteries (technical stores and waste collection centres), the campaign is not limited only to schools. If participants bring at least 10 waste batteries, they receive a small present and can participate in a prize draw for several small domestic appliances. Individuals can also donate their old batteries to the participating elementary school of their selection, helping them win.

A special outreach event will be held at the Congress Square in Ljubljana on Monday, October 14^th, the 2^nd International E-waste Day.  The mayor of Ljubljana, an honorary ambassador of campaign will address the crowd, other contributing ambassadors of the project, Zlatko, Tesky and Mojca Mavec, all famous media personalities, will symbolically dispose of their waste batteries into the collector. Promotional activities at the event include: collection of waste batteries, tour of the E-Transformer (a special awareness vehicle), fun-educational E-cycle activities, cooking by MasterChef's contestant Tesky, experimenting with the House of Experiments. Local elementary schools are invited.

Description: In October, we will be participating in a children's magazine called Ciciban with content about e-waste and waste batteries. It is intended for kindergarten children and children of the first triad of primary school.

In the October issue, we will participate in their playful educational section called Cici Happy School, where a topic is presented every month, which enables a conversation about life and events in it. We will highlight the issue of e-waste and waste batteries and the possibilities for their proper handling.

Cici Happy School is also an all-Slovenian test of knowledge that does not encourage competition, but research and cooperation. This year it will be conducted in an online version, but only at the end of the school year, when the children who subscribe to the magazine will take part in the test, in which they will also have a question from our topic.

In this way we will cover approx. 70,000 children nationwide.

The campaign will also include some small parallel activities in the field or online, which we will adapt to the current situation in Slovenia due to the virus.

Description:

In Slovenia, we are setting up re-use corners, which are intended for everyone who would like to extend the life of their still operating appliances, which they no longer need. The most durable device is always the one we already have, so it makes sense to try to use it for as long as possible. We are placing the corners at the collection points of local utility companies. We want to use this year's International e-Waste Day for a broader media campaign that will support the corners as much as possible and ensure that the word about their locations reaches every small place in our country.

In the corners we collect appliances that are working, are undamaged and safe to use, such as washing machines, refrigerators, freezers, desktops and laptops, consumer electronics, small household appliances, toys, mobile phones, speakers, flat screen TV with remote control, LCD monitors, circular saws , drills, music towers, vacuum cleaners and other suitable electric or battery - operated appliances.

The corners are set up as part of the Life project Turn to e-circural under the slogan # I'm still useful! together with the project partners The Chamber of Public Utilities (a section of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slovenia that associates all Slovenian public service providers) and the company TSD, d.o.o. (waste transportation and collection company in the process of obtaining an environmental permit to prepare waste electrical and electronic equipment for reuse). The project is co-financed by the Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning of the Republic of Slovenia and the European Commission. The project extends the life of appliances through the implementation of various activities such as appliance repair, appliance reuse and appliance sharing.

Description: Collection of small e-waste and small still working appliances (some of them will be donated) in central Slovenia.

A large awareness-raising campaign and prize contest for collecting small e-waste and small still working appliances called "Bring small appliances" will take place in Ljubljana form October 1^st-21^th 2022. Within the campaign, collecting of small e-waste and small still working appliances from 30-40 registered primary schools in Ljubljana will take place, schools will compete for a grand prize, which is concert of musician Challe Salle at their school. Campaign also includes school staff, parents, relatives, friends and colleagues. Campaign coordinators at each school will also be rewarded.

The campaign can also be attended by all individuals, who can contribute their small e-waste and small still working appliances and shall be rewarded for their efforts. With several collection points, available for the disposal of small e-waste and small still working appliances, the campaign is not limited only to schools. If participants bring at least 1 small e-waste and small still working appliance, they receive a small present and can participate in a prize draw for several prizes. Individuals can also donate their small e-waste and small still working appliances to the participating elementary school of their selection, helping them win.

A special outreach event will be held in Ljubljana on Friday, October 14^th, the 5^nd International E-waste day. Promotional activities at the event include: tour of the renovated E-transformer vehicle and other ZEOS fun activities, free diagnostics of broken appliances, appliance exchange and many other interesting things.