{"id":3159520,"date":"2021-09-23T09:41:25","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T09:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webalkans.eu\/making-recycling-fashionable-in-kosovo\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T11:08:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T11:08:42","slug":"making-recycling-fashionable-in-kosovo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webalkans.eu\/en\/making-recycling-fashionable-in-kosovo\/","title":{"rendered":"Making recycling fashionable in Kosovo"},"content":{"rendered":"\nClosing the loop: an EU-funded project introduces a textile recycling concept in Kosovo\r\n\r\n<div>\n\n<span lang=\"EN-GB\">In Kosovo it is very rare to come across bins for separated waste, and recycling is mainly carried out by individual rubbish-pickers who collect metal, cardboard and plastic waste from regular garbage bins, and sell it on. However, thanks to an NGO called Let\u2019s Do It Peja, the collection of textile waste has taken off in Peja, a town in western Kosovo. <\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Arba Shehu is a young and passionate environmental activist who along with her colleagues at the NGO have identified this problem early on, and decided to contribute to a solution. They launched the \u201cPromoting circular economy as a sustainable model for social enterprise development &#8211; SEREC\u201d project, which is funded by the EU. Now Arba is the manager of the project. <\/span>\n\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n<div>\n\n<span lang=\"EN-GB\">Arba explains that the idea for it came because of the volume of textile waste generated and because public institutions have failed to develop a sustainable waste collection and management system in Peja or elsewhere in Kosovo. According to her, most local waste ends up in legal and illegal landfills, the vast majority of which do not comply with basic environmental and health standards. \u201cAlthough the legal framework is partially streamlined with that of the EU, waste remains one of the most significant problems in Kosovo,\u201d says Arba.<\/span>\n\n<\/div>\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<h2><strong>\u201cAlthough the legal framework is partially streamlined with that of the EU, waste remains one of the most significant problems in Kosovo.\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\r\n\r\n<h2><strong>Producing fashion from waste <\/strong><\/h2>\nThe project started in January this year, with the NGO placing a textile collection point in the centre of the city. To the delight of the project team, local residents are responding to the call for sharing their textile waste through such collection points.\n\nThe project is based on the so-called \u201c3R\u201d (\u201cReduce, Reuse and Recycle\u201d) concept. However, apart from its environmental contribution, the project also has an economic angle as they have opened a second-hand shop to sell the donated textiles that are in good condition.\n\nArba believes that there can be no long-term impact if younger generations are not involved actively. Therefore, the education component of the project is seen as the most important one by her and her colleagues. In cooperation with the art high school in Peja, Let\u2019s Do It Peja have launched an extracurricular design course where young students, mentored by experienced fashion designers hired by the project, work on designing and making new clothing using the collected textile waste. Arba explains that this is the most exciting part of the project for her: \u201cThe students are very passionate, and we have seen them come up with very interesting and attractive models.\u201d\r\n\r\n<h2><strong><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u201c<\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">I am very grateful to be part of the EU-funded SEREC project. I am learning many new things and expanding my professional horizons with new knowledge about the fashion industry.\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>About the project <\/strong>\n\nThe EU-funded \u201cPromoting circular economy as a sustainable model for social enterprise development &#8211; SEREC\u201d project was launched in January and will end in December 2021. The overall goal of the project is to support the development of social enterprises in Kosovo and enhance the employment of disadvantaged groups, primarily women and youth, through the application of circular economy concepts.\r\n\r\nYllka Latifi is one of the students participating in the extracurricular course launched by the project. She says, \u201cI am very grateful to be part of the EU-funded SEREC project. I am learning many new things and expanding my professional horizons with new knowledge about the fashion industry.\u201d\n\nThe SEREC project aims to be self-sustaining and continue with the activities even after the EU funding ends. The Let\u2019s Do It Peja NGO is currently working on registering and launching a social enterprise with the 3R concept and name. In this way they aim to ensure sustainability by turning this project into an enterprise with long-term economic and environmental benefit for the community.\n\nThe new social enterprise will aim to hire staff who will work on designing and sewing the recycled textiles as well as people to work in the second-hand shop. \u201cIn this way we aim to help people in need, as the new employees of the social enterprise will primarily come from vulnerable groups such as women, young people and minorities,\u201d says Arba.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Closing the loop: an EU-funded project introduces a textile recycling concept in Kosovo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3159521,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[694],"tags":[],"area-of-cooperation":[418,415,410,417],"country":[247],"opportunity-type":[],"class_list":["post-3159520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories","area-of-cooperation-business-and-sme-support","area-of-cooperation-climate-action","area-of-cooperation-employment-and-inclusion","area-of-cooperation-environmental-protection","country-kosovo"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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