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Inducing and l everaging social responsibil ity to combat the issues of wasteJaka Kranjc,Ecologists without borders, 2011TRANSCRIPT
Inducing and leveraging social responsibility to combat the
issues of waste
Jaka Kranjc,Ecologists without borders, 2011
Social responsibility
an ethical ideology or theory that an entity, be it an organization or
individual, has an obligation to act to benefit society at large.
Social responsibility
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VS.
Inefficency
Teeme ära 2008
“If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it!” Albert Einstein
LCSID project goals
1. 200,000 participants carry out the biggest environmental project in the
history of Slovenia.
2. Remove 20,000 tons of illegaly dumped waste.
3. The first countrywide digital registry of illegal dump sites.
4. Unite all the existing spring cleanup actions.
5. Spread awareness on environmental issues and aid in a positive long
term change in the environmental legislation.
Time frame: September 2009 to April 2010
Registry snapshot
Let’s clean Slovenia in a day!The big clean up, April 17, 2010
Results
1. 270,000 participants (13,5%) (+++)
2. 11,000 tons ()
3. The first countrywide digital registry of illegal dump sites (+)
4. Unite all the existing spring cleanup actions (+)
5. Spread awareness on environmental issues (+)
Secret of success● inspirational Baltic precedents
●existing tradition of cleanups in Slovenia
● inclusiveness – everyone was encouraged to participate
● longing for positive societal wibes
●coalition with the media
●project’s apolitical nature
●attraction of a massive 1day volunteer action.
● youthful core team
Let's clean the Balkans in a day!
SR lessons learned
1. Education
2. Education
3. Youth: step up, you are awesome
4. Bottomsup
5. Education
Inducing and leveraging social responsibility to combat the
issues of waste
Jaka Kranjc,Ecologists without borders, 2011