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Campaign against illegal waste dumps
2005. július 13.
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In the autumn of 2000, we started launching of our
campaign to eliminate illegal waste dumps. In our opinion, every group of the
society has to join to ’disarm’ the masses of illegally piled up waste and to
prevent the creation of new dumps. Our conviction is that programs initiated by
non-governmental organisations, educational institutions, and local communities
can be very successful in solving such an environmental problem. We believe
that only in 5-10 years’ the morals and the attitude of the society will be
changed regarding the culture of public hygiene. That is why our campaign will
have results only in long term. On the one hand, social collaboration and voluntarism
must be strengthened, and on the other hand, we must find sources to eliminate
illegal waste dumps. According to our conception, our program is primarily to
raise attention, to change attitudes and to educate people about their local
environment. Every year 150-200 groups apply for the campaign. In 2003 and 2004
altogether 1280 illegal waste dumps were mapped and 171 out of them were
eliminated. In the cities and villages participating in the program there have
been a moral and cultural change of attitude to the practice of waste
management. Public parks, playgrounds, and sports fields were built on the
cleaned sites and local orders were created to prevent illegal waste dumping.
The groups – often with the help of the local government – set and are still
setting up patrols to maintain the order on the cleaned territories.