Macedonia: Christmas Tree Made of Plastic Bottles
Inspired by the example of Kaunas, Lithuania, Macedonian Twitter users made a Christmas tree from plastic bottles at the Skopje City Park on Dec. 25, to raise awareness of everyone's responsibility for the environment. The action's organizers used their blogs [mk, mk, mk, mk] as a starting point for the quick social media campaign #елкамк (elka = a fir tree). The tree has remained in place during the night, and if the poor people who gather plastic from the streets and garbage dumpsters for recycling don't harvest it, the authors plan [mk] to properly dispose of it after the New Year's.
Written byFilip Stojanovski
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Aleksandra Hristov published a photo gallery from the two days of the action. It.com.mk also reported [mk] on this event.
The predominant use of the notion ‘poor people gathering plastic’ adds a special class flavor to the responsibility for environment idea.