{"id":13852,"date":"2018-10-05T02:37:37","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T23:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/?p=13852"},"modified":"2018-10-05T02:38:45","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T23:38:45","slug":"sofias-urban-environment-news-in-brief-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/sofias-urban-environment-news-in-brief-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Sofia\u2019s Urban Environment \u2013 News in Brief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13761 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/DSC05491.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/DSC05491.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/DSC05491-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/DSC05491-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/DSC05491-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/DSC05491-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/DSC05491-195x146.jpg 195w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/DSC05491-50x38.jpg 50w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/DSC05491-100x75.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 310px) 100vw, 310px\" \/>Sofia Municipality Starts Autumn Campaign to Collect Household Textile Waste<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The campaign is under the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">slogan <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt\u2019s time for wardrobe detox\u201d and aims to reduce textiles in mixed household waste, as well as to recall the importance of textile waste sorting for the environment, including air quality.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The campaign was launched with mobile stations <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">according to schedule <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in September and will end on November 25 with the Green Fashion Days show that will present a specially designed collection of clothes created entirely <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">with <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the textile collected under the campaign.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Locations of the stationary stations:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">South Park \u2013 at the entrance of Vitosha Blvd and at the entrance of Nishava St.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Borisova <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">G<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">radina \u2013 at the main park lane towards the summer stage<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The parking in front of Sofia Inspectorate at No 5 Paris St.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More than 2 tons of textile<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> waste were collected only a week after the pilot project was launched. At present, 12 waste flows are <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">being <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">collected in Sofia, including paper, plastic, glass, metal, green and bio wastes, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Information about where and how to separately dispose of your waste, including electrical appliances, toxic waste, Christmas trees, etc. is available on the website of Sofia Municipality <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sofia.bg\/waste\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">here<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>New Youth Innovation Lab Opens in Sofia<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the end of September, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Youth Innovation Laboratory opened doors in Sofia. It was created under the \u201cUnlocking the Potentials for Business and Social Innovation in the Danube Region by Equipping Young People with New Generation Skills\u201d <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">initiative<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The project is implemented by the \u201cEuropean Programs and Projects\u201d Directorate of Sofia Municipality and Sofia Development Association.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By developing the<\/span> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Youth Innovation Lab<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Sofia Municipality aims to support, promote and develop the entrepreneurial and digital skills of young people (aged 15-29) in Sofia. The project supports the implementation of the Smart Specialization Strategy of Sofia. The lab will also offer a digital reading room, as the project is implemented in partnership with Sofia City Library.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The leading partner of the project is <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Budapest Municipality, and the other partners <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">include <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PRIZMA Foundation (Slovenia), Maribor Municipality, NOVA (Austria), Accente (Austria), Cluj Development Association (Romania), DEX Innovation Center (Czech Republic), Mihajlo Pupin Institute (Serbia), Savski Venac Municipality (Serbia), North-West Regional Agency (Romania). Associated partners are Belgrade Municipality (Serbia), Graz Municipality (Austria) and Corvius University &#8211; Budapest (Hungary).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sofia Municipality Starts Autumn Campaign to Collect Household Textile Waste The campaign is under the slogan \u201cIt\u2019s time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":13762,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsletter-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}