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26 Feb 2025

ÇEVKO Foundation 2025 Green Dot Student Awards Application Process Has Started

The application process for the 2025 Green Dot Student Awards organized by ÇEVKO Foundation started on February 10, 2025. Green Dot Student Awards aim to encourage university students to develop unique environmentally friendly products, applications and projects in the fields of packaging design, waste management and social responsibility.

ÇEVKO Environmental Protection and Packaging Waste Utilization Foundation is giving the Green Dot Student Awards for the third time this year. Stating that ÇEVKO Foundation is the representative in Turkey of the Green Dot symbol, which meets consumers on more than 400 billion packages worldwide annually, ÇEVKO Foundation Secretary General Mete İmer said, "The Green Dot indicates that the relevant company makes a financial contribution to the recycling of post-consumer packaging waste. Therefore, the Green Dot symbolizes the responsible producer and the respect and appreciation shown by the consumer to responsibility. As ÇEVKO Foundation, in addition to the Green Dot Industry and Press Awards, we also organize social activities for university students on packaging design, waste management and the environment." "We started the Green Dot Student Awards with the aim of encouraging product, application and project development in our areas of responsibility. In our opinion, the Green Dot Student Awards, which we are giving for the third time this year, are a very important step towards accelerating the energy of the youth towards sustainability and ensuring university-industry cooperation."

The Green Dot Student Awards aim to encourage the development of unique environmentally friendly products, applications and projects in the fields of packaging design, waste management and social responsibility, and to ensure university-industry cooperation. Cash prizes and incentive prizes are also given to the top 3 projects in each category.

All university students in Turkey can apply to the competition individually or as a group in three different categories: "Packaging Eco-design", "Waste Management System and Applications" and "Environmental Social Responsibility Applications". ÇEVKO Foundation 2025 Green Dot Student Awards application process will end on Friday, June 27, 2025. Applications will be received through the page https://ogrenci.cevko.org.tr/Account/Login

The award amounts to be given for the products, applications or projects that will be among the top three in each category in 2025 were determined as follows:

1st Prize: 20,000 TL

2nd Prize: 10,000 TL

3rd Prize: 6,000 TL

Incentive Award 4,000 TL

Detailed information and specification information about the ÇEVKO Foundation 2025 Green Dot Student Awards can be found at https://l24.im/vO9LX.

About ÇEVKO Foundation

ÇEVKO Environmental Protection and Packaging Waste Utilization Foundation was established on November 1, 1991, to contribute to the establishment and development of a sustainable recycling system in Turkey. ÇEVKO Foundation, a pioneer in its field, not only collaborates with municipalities and economic enterprises to collect and recycle post-consumer packaging waste separately at the source, but also focuses on activities aimed at increasing social awareness.

In recent years, ÇEVKO Foundation has focused on the transition to a circular economy and the fight against climate change in Turkey. Implementing the sustainable production, sustainable consumption and upcycling processes of the circular economy; It strives to raise awareness in society about climate change adaptation and mitigation.

ÇEVKO Foundation, which obtained the right to use the international "Green Dot" sign in Turkey in 2003, is also a member of extended producer responsibility organizations in Europe.

About Green Dot

The Green Dot was first used in Germany in 1990-1991 to symbolize the separate collection of packaging waste at the source.

In order to popularize its use, "Packaging Recovery Organization Europe - PRO Europe" was established in 1995. PRO Europe grants the right to use Green Dots to the recycling systems of member countries on a non-profit basis. The Green Dot has become an international model symbolizing the financial contribution of industry to the recycling system. A Green Dot on a package indicates that the company that puts that packaged product on the market fulfills its legal obligations regarding the recovery of packaging waste and makes a financial contribution to the recycling system.

ÇEVKO Foundation obtained the right to use the Green Dot sign in Turkey with the agreement it made with PRO Europe in 2003. The Foundation makes this symbol, which is common in Europe, available by making sublicense agreements with economic enterprises that want to use it in Turkey.

  • Information about the Green Dot: Recycling systems in 31 countries, mostly EU members, use the Green Dot symbol.
  • More than 150,000 affordable businesses have the Green Dot symbol on their packaging.
  • The amount of packaging containing the Green Dot has exceeded 400 billion pieces annually.
  • Approximately more than 500 million consumers benefit from Green Dot systems.
  • Green Dot is registered in more than 170 countries.

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