10 Yapomogaboxes are opened in Kyiv, which help animals and military personnel

10 Yapomogaboxes are opened in Kyiv, which help animals and military personnel
Katerina Belousova

Yapomogabox accepts plastic bottles up to 2 liters for processing

The tenth opened in Kyiv Yapomogaboks, which transforms plastic bottles to help homeless animals, special children and the elderly, as well as the Ukrainian military.

2 more boxes are functioning in Cherkassy and Volochysk, in Khmelnytskyi region, reports community organization Yapomoga on Facebook.

Yapomogabox accepts plastic bottles of up to 2 liters for processing and sends 10 kopecks from each collected bottle to help the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the same amount to the United24 program.

From now on, 10 boxes are operating in Kyiv:

  • 71 Illenko Street;
  • 15 Protasiv Yar street (SOCAR gas station) Yapomogabox 3.0;
  • 43 Petra Hryhorenko Avenue (METRO);
  • 36 Stepana Bandera Avenue (Socar gas station);
  • Stepan Bandera Avenue, 26 (METRO shopping center);
  • Ring road, 1B (METRO shopping center);
  • School No. 25, str. Volodymyrska, 1;
  • Technical Lyceum No. 157 Yapomogaboks 3.0;
  • Technical Lyceum No. 207 Yapomogaboks 3.0;
  • Technical Lyceum No. 287 Yapomogaboks 3.0.

Earlier, EcoPolitic wrote, that a joint project of the public organization Yapomoga, the trading company METRO UA and the processing industry enterprise Vtorma UA, will send money from each collected bottle to the aid of the Armed Forces and to the United24 program.

As EcoPolitic reported earlier, in Lviv a sorting ship was installed, which will help to collect 6 types of waste separately.

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