Historic View

Raising a public awareness about waste matters does not come from day to day. It has taken years of planning and repeting information about why it is necessary to recycle and sort waste at the source.

Up till 1960s almost all types of waste was dumped at city dumps - official dumps as well as unofficial dumps. However, as the environmental conciousness began rising on a national and international basis, also on a local scale the first initiatives to sorting waste was taken.