Поново / Ponovo

Поново / Ponovo is a project to repair and reuse electronics and batteries, ran by Pionir Free School.

We take in your unused, broken devices or electronic waste and give them a new life. We auction off the repaired devices and we buy saplings and fund our free school.

For every device you donate, you get a sapling/young tree in return (or we can plant it for you). More than 480 trees have been planted as part of our initiative, more than a tonne of e-waste has been repaired and at least a couple of thousand lithium cells have been recovered, refabricated and reused.

We reuse over 80% of all donated electronics, which means that less than 20% goes to recycling, which as we all know is a very labour and energy intensive process.

We fight for the right to repair and support degrowth, and we work on emancipating the masses on these ideas. We are advocating to make these principles regulatory, for the future of our planet where we, humans, are living on it in health and prosperity. Our ultimate goal is to develop, document and publish replicable methods and standards to prevent e-waste, by agitating for and building modular, sustainable and repariable devices.

We are most proud to be recepients of the "Zeleni list" - the most prestigious award for environmental protection and ecology in Serbia, for our work on Ponovo.