Paper Collection Day

We got up early in the morning to come to school and meet everyone for the paper collection campaign. On the way to school we could see many bottles thrown all around the streets in Mostar. As we were prepared, we decided to collect plastic bottles on our way and then to send them for recycling. Once we arrived school we started cleaning the fountain from plastic bottles.
We then split up in groups and went in every house, knocked at the door and asked for old paper to recycle. I still remember the lines I memorized that day. "Stari papira za recikliranje" -with this phrase we asked Mostar's citizens weather they had old paper or not. Yes, the language was a little bit of a problem as we didn't have a local language speaker but we could understand their reply. Everyone was willing to give their papers to recycle.
By the end of our mission we turned to school with a large amount of papers. We knew that the paper collection company would be delighted to help us. We then went home satisfied and glad of our work. As it was a good day we decided that next term we will do another paper collection campaign. I'm really looking forward to collection paper again.

Arlinda Rezhdo










UWCiM students
Paper collection day

Flea Market

Flea Market
18.11 the flea market group of the ecology service held its first flea market in the OKC Abrašević. In spite of small amount of visitors, I think many people gained something from today’s market: people who sold their stuff gained not only environmental satisfaction but also money. People who sold/donated their stuff have now good conscious and more space in their closet, not to mention those who bought something very unique, extremely cheap stuff.

Next flea market will be on Sunday 9.12 in the UWCiM’s Spanish Room from 3 to 6 p.m. Welcome! Next term we will probably have one flea market per month = don’t throw away your unnecessary stuff; one never knows who might need it. Apart from Abrašević we are hoping to have flea market also in the Spanish square and possibly other places as well to catch the whole city to recycle and think environmentally.

Money from this flea market donations is addressed to the Roma Service for shoes and clothes for winter for the Roma children; amount achieved is 43,2 KM! (In addition we received one winter jacket and one pair of shoes for Roma children.) We are very grateful to those who contributed to the flea market today and next time we wish to have even more participants!
E.A. Jewellery were desired souvenirs

Paper Collection

On Sunday 4th of November the Ecology Group of the UWCiM devided into four groups, in cooperation with other students of the school, and made a paper collection action. This means that we went from door to door collecting paper from households in four areas of Mostar, covering nearly 60 blocks of flats.




The result of the day was remarkable amount of recycklable paper, which is recyckled by a paper company unijapapir. I believe the participants of this action had fun and realized the importance of classifying the waste we produce.

-Ella Alin

Welcome to the UWCiM Ecology Group's Blog!

We are a group of students in the United World College in Mostar, who are interested in environmental issues. In this blog we hope to talk about our projects in Mostar and in Bosnia and Herzegovina, write about environmental issues and raise environmental awareness.

The group started its term on Saturday 29th of Septmeber with many ideas about environmental development of Mostar - recyckling programme, environmental awareness programme and second hand shop project are some of the projects we are about to start now. If You have any ideas about ecologial issues in Mostar, or you would like to help us in reaching our goals, please contact us to our e-mail address: uwcim.ecoloogy@gmail.com.

We hope to update this blog as often as possible! -Ella Alin