6 Yapomogaboxes, which turn plastic into good, have resumed work in Kyiv

6 Yapomogaboxes, which turn plastic into good, have resumed work in Kyiv facebook.com/Yapomoga.official
Katerina Belousova

Yapomoga is a completely charitable project

In Kyiv, the work of six Yapomogaboxes was resumed in a test mode, it is the donation boxes with which you can support charities and dispose of plastic.

Box accepts plastic bottles up to 2 liters for processing, Yapomoga public organization reports on Facebook.

Since the beginning of the full-scale war, the Yapomoga team has plunged into humanitarian aid, including bringing tons of fodder to Ukraine and helping animal shelters. In addition, the founder of the initiative lost your business, thanks to which, I help could work and develop, because it is a completely charitable project.

"But my mission is alive! I have to change this world - to turn plastic into good", noted Yapomoga.

There are currently 6 boxes operating in Kyiv:

  • St. Illenko 71;
  • St. Protasiv Yar 15 (SOCAR gas station) Yapomogabox 3.0;
  • 43 Petr Hryhorenko Ave. (METRO);
  • sq. Sports 1a (Gulliver);
  • 36 Stepan Bandera Ave. (Socar gas station);
  • Stepan Bandera Ave., 26 (METRO shopping center).

Earlier, EcoPolitic wrote, that in Kyiv, animal rights activists of the Yapomoga project accused a volunteer, who was a contact person for receiving cargo at the warehouse, of theft of a batch of humanitarian fodder for animals.

As EcoPolitic previously reported, KPI students collect used disposable electronic cigarettes, to turn them into an element of the drone drop system, which are then sent to the aid of the Armed Forces.

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