Runi Baker designed and created the first ReciklirajBA application whose goal is to inform the citizens of Gorazde, a city in the east of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), about recycling and the locations where containers for separating recycling waste are placed. This sixteen-year-old says he wants to initiate changes in the city.
”My goal is to make citizens aware and to have a group of young people who will socialize, go out together and clean the environment, and at the same time send a big message to the city that they should recycle, ” told Runi Baker from Gorazde.
He started thinking about the application as a member of the environmental group at school.
The current version of the application consists of three sections where users can find out information about waste categories, disposal locations, and recycling symbols on product packaging.
Besides the markings of places for waste disposal in Gorazde, the application also marks such places in Sarajevo, Mostar, and Banja Luka.
Currently, the largest number of containers and bins for separating waste is located in schoolyards, in places where students usually do not pass and do not spend their time.
With the help of the World Vision organization, Runi should soon set up about 20 bins for waste separation, for plastic and paper, in all parts of Gorazde.
”An image will be created that in the future we need to move in that direction, to recycle, for the government to install bins that are safer and bigger and that there are more of them around the city so that citizens do not have an excuse for not recycling,” explained Runi Baker.
There are dozens of wild landfills on the territory of the municipality of Gorazde.
Citizens will be able to use the application from the beginning of May when it will be available for Android devices.
Runi is currently creating a plan for the collection and recycling of collected waste, Slobodna Evropa reports.
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