Our responsibility towards preserving the environment is also expressed through the care we take of the packaging of the products we buy every day. That is why it is important to check the labels when purchasing products to see if the product is marked with the international Green Dot symbol. Products with the Green Dot symbol are included in the packaging waste management system through the system operator.

In order to inform and educate the population about the importance of the Green Dot sign for our environment, the first authorized packaging and packaging waste management operator in Bosnia and Herzegovina, “Ekopak”, and the company “Konzum BiH” held an interesting promotion last Saturday at the “Mepas Mall” Shopping Center in Mostar.

On this occasion, visitors to the shopping center could learn more about the importance of the Green Dot sign, as well as the social responsibility of companies that are members of the Green Dot, and all customers whose baskets contained three products with the Green Dot label were also given appropriate gifts. 

“Until now, I was not aware that there is a recycling system in BiH or what the Green Dot sign means. From now on, we will look at the back of each product to see if it has the Green Dot sign because we support environmental protection ,” said Jelena Rozić from Mostar. 

Otherwise, the operator Ekopak as a member of “PRO EUROPE” is the exclusive provider of rights to use the Green Dot on the market of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The owner of the Green Dot sign is the German company “Duales System Deutschland” AG. (DSD), which has entrusted the management and coordination of the use of this sign outside the German market to the umbrella European organization “PRO-EUROPE” based in Brussels. “PRO-EUROPE” grants rights to use the Green Dot sign to its members worldwide, and since 2013 Ekopak has been a member of this organization and the exclusive provider of rights to use the Green Dot on the market of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The following facts speak about the importance of the Green Dot:

• The Green Dot is the most widely used internationally protected symbol in the world, protected in more than 170 countries.
• More than 170,000 companies mark their products with the Green Dot symbol.
• Around 460 billion pieces of packaging are marked with the Green Dot symbol annually.
• More than 300 million citizens have access to separate disposal of packaging waste, which is financed by PRO EUROPE members, i.e. system operators.