Clean the Serbia

"On June 4^th, 289,534 volunteers took part in the campaign "Big Cleaning of Serbia" and removed over 150,000 cubic meters of waste from 5,311  locations all over the country," said the Minister of Environment, Mining and Spatial Planning, Mr Oliver Dulić.

 "We are very satisfied with the results of the campaign and we would like to thank all the citizens, i.e. volunteers, who took part in the "Big Cleaning of Serbia". The Ministry and the local self-government units organized this campaign in order to celebrate the World Environment Day. The campaign "Big Cleaning of Serbia" was organized for the second year in a row with the support of numerous business organizations, civil society organizations, schools and media.  Please, allow me to express my sincere gratitude to the main promoter of the campaign, Mr Novak Djoković, as well as to our volunteers," - said the Minister Dulić.

Today, more than 270.000 volunteers took part in the "Let's Clean up Serbia" campaign by cleaning up over 3.000 locations in 169 municipalities in Serbia.

Traditionally, this year on 4^th of Jun the clean up of waste all over Serbia will be underway as a part of the "Let's Clean up Serbia" Campaign.   The Minister of Environment, Mining and Spatial Planning, Mr Oliver Dulić has invited the citizens, schools, businesses entities and other organizations to support and give their contribution to this environmental campaign.

The Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning declared Štrpce Municipality the most successful municipality in "Big Cleaning of Serbia" campaign, organized on Saturday, June 5^th, 2010.

- As many as 15% of Štrpce citizens took part in the campaign on Saturday and gave their contribution to the "Big Cleaning of Serbia" campaign. I am very glad that a Kosovo and Metohija municipality, where people have a number of existential and other problems, was voted the most successful municipality in our campaign. In this way the citizens of Štrpce showed that care for the environment should not be put off for some better and much happier times. As a reward for their success the Ministry shall donate a new garbage truck to Štrpce Municipality - says the Minister of Environment and Spatial Planning, Mr. Oliver Dulić.

More than 200,000 citizens of Serbia participated in the "Big Cleaning of Serbia ", marking the World Environment Day on June 5^th. Schools, public companies, private enterprises, employees of public administration services, NGOs and citizens took part in this campaign.

- The first results of the campaign are amazing. We are very satisfied with the response from our citizens. Only three municipalities were not able to participate in the campaign, one of them is Trgovište municipality which was unable to join the campaign due to the state of emergency caused by the floods. To those who did not participate in the campaign I would like to send the message that we did the cleaning on their behalf, said Minister Dulić and announced that accurate data on the campaign results would be available as soon as all reports from municipalities reach the Ministry.

The Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning has marked Earth Day by numerous manifestations held throughout Serbia. Minister Oliver Dulić has participated in wild-landfill cleanup activity on Ada Huja in Belgrade. He invited all citizens, institutions, non-governmental organizations and companies to join a huge Serbia cleanup activity on 5^th June 2010.

- We call upon all citizens to give their contribution to environment by cleaning their surroundings. There are thousands of locations in Serbia similar to Ada Huja, where waste has been deposited for years. Owing to "Let's clean up Serbia" campaign, 60 per cent out of 4.600 landfills registered last year has been cleaned. Nevertheless, citizens continued to deposit waste at some of those locations - said minister Dulić.

The campaign "Let's Clean up Serbia" continues by cleaning up the protected natural wealth Vlasina. The sites belonging to the first level of protection -the islands Stratorija and Dugi Del as well as the site belonging to the second level of protection - Bratanov Del were cleaned up during the first clean-up campaign. This was the first campaign in a series of similar activities which are going to be conducted on the territory of the special natural reserve of Vlasina.

"Let's Clean up Serbia" campaign continues by cleaning up one of the biggest landfills in Serbia situated between Laćark and Martinci. The Minister of Environment and Spatial Planning Oliver Dulić was present at the commencement of the campaign. While talking with the citizens, the Minister announced introduction of a new universal telephone service that would enable citizens to report incidents of illegal dumping of construction waste and other litter.

"Let's Clean up Serbia" campaign continues by clean up activities in the Nature Park Golija, more precisely in the area surrounding Dajićko Lake. The employees of the public communal company "Srbijašume" cleaned up the excursion site from PET packaging and other litter.

The Minister of Environment and Spatial Planning Oliver Dulić and Belgrade Mayor Dragan Đilas visited today the first Belgrade recycling yard located in Ada Huja.