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Tbilisi Recycling News: LED light bulbs Recycling! ♻️💡
September 2023
All collection points with indication of what can be dropped off there were added to our Recycling Map: https://cutt.ly/VRwDxYv . It has a wide geography, including Gori, Rustavi, Zugdidi, Telavi, Kutaisi, etc. Elit Electronics in East Point Elit Electronics in Tbilisi Centrali (Train station)
We also decided to start accepting LED light bulbs in all our Garages (only). You can bring them together with other waste. 
Addresses and working hours of our collection points you can find on eco-taxi.ge.
Please note: NO other light bulbs (incandescent or Edison) are accepted at this time for recycling.
Summer vacation ☀️
July 2023
With August fast approaching we would like to inform you that we will be on Summer Break
🗓 From 1 to 14 of August.
👉🏻 Our Garages will be closed
👉🏻 Eco-taxi service will not operate
👉🏻 We will not answer any direct messages.
We will be back on August 15 and will resume our work for even greater impact. 💚
Eco-Taxi & Garages Results in April - June 📣
July 2023
Another 3 months passed. We have had our hands full with recyclables during this period and want to share with you some results and highlights.
The biggest highlight of this period was the opening of the Third Parki ar minda Garage in Chughureti! It became possible thanks to the sponsorship support by the company Garage IT. It is located in the yard of Tamar Mepe 19 (entrance through the arch from Ninoshvili str.).
In April – June we collected and sent for recycling a little more than 26 tons of waste. Including:
7.9 tons of plastic of all types 4,8 tons of different paper products 240 kg of batteries Our Garages were visited 4637 times!!
During this period Eco-taxi team collected waste 600 times from our private and corporate clients. We thank everyone for choosing our service!
order eco-taxi check the schedules and location of our collection points see our sorting guidelines check our Recycling map, etc.
We are extending the pilot What I Recycle Challenge!
You may already know that we have the What I Recycle app. Its goal is to collect data on recyclable waste in Georgia, so that later, through machine learning mechanisms, it would be easier for people to determine by this or that package whether it can be recycled and where.
To test and improve the application, we invite you to take part in the Challenge.
Take 50 photos of different types of recyclables through the app, send us this data via the BuckitUp device (in garages or during the arrival of an eco-taxi), and get 1 Eco-taxi arrival for free!
How to take part?
1. Download the What I Recycle app. Available in Apple Store and Google Play
2. Take a photo of a recyclable sample through the app
3. Mark in the list of recyclables what type it belongs to
4. Collect at least 50 photos
5. Transfer photos to our buckitup device at any of our garages or at the time of Eco Taxi arrival using buckitup (how exactly?)
6. Fill out the eco-taxi order form on the eco-taxi.ge website and enter your unique identifier from the buckitup.app website in the promo code field.
For questions/suggestions about the application, please contact the designated telegram chat.
Collection updates: we now accept
new types
of paper products 
March 2023
Hard to imagine how many egg cartons and toilet paper cores were rejected by us during 3 years of waste collection. Will happen no more!
✨ We are happy to announce that from March 20 we accept all products made from pulp cardboard:
♻️ egg cartons, cup holders, inserts in the boxes, cardboard trays from fruits and vegetables, etc.
and
♻️ toilet paper/paper towels cores and other cardboard tubes.
❗️ The only thing is that we will collect them separately in Garages and via Eco-taxi so please make sure they are not mixed with other paper products.
We already made necessary changes in our sorting guidelines
These waste types will be processed in collaboration with the@greengift1 project.
Report 2022 is ready 🙂
February 2023
Here, with a bit of delay we are happy to share the 2022 Parki ar minda detailed progress report!
- Report shares financial and impact related quantitative data
- Discusses background, methodology, and impact
- Emphasizes bottom-up approach and challenges in regard to capacity building and fundraising
Download: 2022 Parki ar minda PROGRESS REPORT
Changes in the collection of paper
February 2023
From January 16 we are changing the Rules of paper sorting both in Eco-Taxi and in Garages.
We now separate by 3 types:
- Cardboard and craft paper: thick cardboard (boxes, etc.), thin, one-layer cardboard (food and other packaging), craft paper (delivery bags and other craft/brown bags), other paper bags
- White paper (makulatura): white paper, notebooks, flyers, leaflets without binding
- Printed products with binding: books, magazines, booklets, catalogs, notebooks, etc.
How to prepare all paper products for recycling with us:
- Remove all non-paper elements: staples, clips, bills, scotch tape, stickers, woven (non-paper) handles from bags
- Make sure it is empty and clean with no greasy stains
- Flatten everything as much as possible to reduce size
From now on all the paper and cardboard that we collect will be recycled locally in Georgia! It will be used to produce paper napkins and other sanitary paper products.
See full sorting guidelines here.
Parki ar minda 2022 Results: Eco-Taxi & Garages ♻️
February 2023
Eco-Taxi service and total amount of collected waste grew 4 times in comparison to the 2021.
We did 105 rides covering 1526 addresses. More than 4000 people visited our collection points. All in all during 2022 we collected around 70 tons of waste compared to only 16 during previous year.
10 tons of PET plastic. This waste type showed the biggest growth in volumes – 5 times more that in 2021 7,5 tons of paper waste went for recycling 1 ton of aluminum and 1 ton of tin
We also collected a lot of electronic waste and batteries. Last year we saw a significant increase in the amount of batteries that are brought to all collection points for recycling. We are happy that more and more people and companies participate in separate waste collection and trust us with handling it. We are working hard to make sure your waste is treated properly and the best way possible.
We will continue to work and create more opportunities for better waste practices in Georgia. All information about Eco-taxi services and Garages’ work you can find on our website: eco-taxi.ge.Eco-Taxi on Radio Tavisupleba
YouTube channel & Facebook
December 2022
On December 2 a video report on our Eco-taxi work was published on Facebook & Youtube of Radio Tavisupleba.
We are glad that our work is being covered more and more in the media. This is a sign of an important shift towards better waste management. We hope that through these publications more and more people will learn about the possibility and importance of separate waste collection and recycling and will join our movement!
Our second Garage
in Saburtalo is open!
November 2022
We are happy to announce that the second collection point aka Garage was opened late November in Saburtalo.
Now residents of this area have better access to separate waste collection. In the first week already 80 people visited it and brought their waste for recycling!
The Garage in Saburtalo also works on a volunteer basis and according to a flexible schedule. Please be sure to check the working hours before coming.
Address: Alexander Kazbegi avenue, 34a
How to find the Garage: behind the building with a big clock in Nanti Garden. Access from Irine Skhirtladze street. Grey garage with Parki ar minda sign.
Eco-Taxi & Garage:
September results
October 2022
In September we moved to a steady “3 working days per week” schedule. It means that more and more people and companies are joining our efforts to recycle as much waste as possible. And this is great!
This results in another record in collected recyclables – more than 10 tons in a month!
Breaking it down by types it was:
- a little more than 1 ton of plastic with record numbers for PET in our Garage.
- a little less than 1 ton of paper/cardboard
- 4 tons of glass for reuse/recycle
- The rest was divided between other waste types.
Separately we delivered 8 60l bags of plastic lids to Batumi for the Recycleaf project.
Last month 380 people visited our garage. We want to thank our volunteers who make this number possible by dedicating their time and effort to keep the garage open almost every day!
In August we collected more than
1 ton of plastic!
September 2022
This is the first time that we collected such an amount in just one month! And this happened despite our Summer break.
To be exact, we collecte 1005 kg of plastic. Most of them were plastic bottles.
Besides, we collected:
- 411 kg of paper and cardboard
- 70 kg of aluminum and 70 kg of tin
- 2865 bottles and jars for reuse
- 1 ton of glass for recycling.
All in all, around 5,5 tons of waste was diverted from landfills and sent for recycling and reuse!
Results of our work in June
July 2022
Gosh, June was hot! Luckily not temperature wise 😉
⚡️In June we collected 5 tons of waste! ⚡️
‼️And set another Garage record with 263 visitors. Thanks to all the volunteers who dedicated their time to keeping it open for longer hours.
Here are the numbers by waste types for May:
♻️ PET bottles – 482 kg
♻️ Other PET – 106,5 kg
♻️ HDPE & PP – 41,3 & 46 kg
♻️ LDPE – 12 kg
♻️ Aluminum – 62 kg
♻️ Tin – 70 kg
♻️ Paper/Cardboard – 738 kg
♻️ Glass for reuse – 4126 bottles & jars
♻️ Glass for recycle – 1 ton
Recycle with us but also don’t forget that reducing & reusing is always better. 😉
Important updates about 5 (PP) Plastic
June 2022
Today we want to share with you 2 important updates regarding recycling details of 5 (PP) plastic items:
1. We are now accepting soft plastic packaging with mark 5 (PP) in our Garage. Examples: soft packs with grains, rice, etc., bread soft plastic packaging, packaging for sweets/cookies.
Important: we accept only packaging with appropriate mark of plastic type
Please note: we don’t accept any soft packaging (even with the mark) that has shiny metallic cover inside (like a pack of chips has).
2. Do you have Matsoni/sour cream jars and cream cheese containers? If you do, we kindly ask you to remove the film covering most of the matsoni and sour cream containers and paper cover of some of cream cheese and other milk products’ containers.
How to remove the film/paper cover: cut the film/paper with the knife at the bottom of the container and remove the film. This change is the requirement of the recycler of this type of plastic.
Results of our work in May
June 2022
In May we collected 4 tons of waste! It is 1,3 ton more than in April.
And this is not because you created more waste, but because more people participated in the collection.
The Garage is becoming more and more popular. In May it was visited by 255 people, more than 100 people more than the previous month!
Eco-taxi did 7 rides this month and visited 100 addresses.
Here are the numbers by waste types for May:
PET bottles – 499 kg
Other PET – 84 kg
HDPE & PP – 40 & 46 kg
Aluminum – 72,6 kg
Tin – 102 kg
Paper/Cardboard – 671 kg
Glass for reuse – 4045 bottles & jars
Glass for recycle – 1,2 tons
Kudos to our Eco-Taxi team and volunteers for managing all this waste! And of course for all of you who sort and clean and take care of your waste!
Garage news:
now you can bring
your pill blisters
for recycling
January 2022
Garage news:
we accept bubble
wrap for reuse
January 2022
Do you have any bubble wrap at home that you don’t use as an anti-stress tool? 🙂 Bring it to us for reuse!
From January we start accepting in our Garage intact bubble wrap (with air in the bubbles) for reuse in the studio Modi Ceramic Project. They will use it to make sure delicate ceramic products are safely delivered to their new homes.
Please note that we won’t be accepting bubble wrap
via Eco-taxi pick up. ONLY in our Garage.
Do you have any bubble wrap at home that you don’t use as an anti-stress tool? 🙂 Bring it to us for reuse! From January we start accepting in our Garage intact bubble wrap (with air in the bubbles) for reuse in the studio Modi Ceramic Project. They will use it to make sure delicate ceramic products are safely delivered to their new homes. Please note that we won’t be accepting bubble wrap via Eco-taxi pick up. ONLY in our Garage. Bubble wrap is not recyclable in Georgia but it can actually be reused many times! Reduce its negative impact by extending its life 🙂 Check the Garage schedule to plan your next drop off.
