ABOUT US

ÇEKOOP is an environmental cooperative, founded by volunteer pharmacists in Izmir, in 2010.

Community pharmacists are directly responsible of collecting and disposal of unused or expired prescribed medications by law.

Without a proper disposal programme, not only we face severe environmental damage, there will be an increasing risk of drug abuse and drug poisining via prescription medication falling into the wrong hands, such as children. With these concerns, Sule Ilkkursunlu, Pharm. and her volunteer collagues started to run an EU funded take-back Project to collect unused household medication and send it to a proper licensed disposal facility.


Primary aim of the Cooperative is to contribute to a healthy society and to protect the environment for future generations.

Today CEKOOP is operating a country-wide drug disposal programme, the amount of the collected drugs had reached 420 tons by 2017.

GREEN SERVICES

  • DRUG DISPOSAL

    Proper disposal of household medicines, which are collected from public via volunteer pharmacists, in licensed disposal facilities. And disposal of expired or broken pharmaceuticals belonging to pharmacies which is the legal obligation of pharmacist by law.

  • PROJECTS

    ÇEKOOP runs innovative projects regarding public health and protection of environment.
    Everybody who wants to contribute is welcome to volunteer.

  • TRAINING

    ÇEKOOP organizes various training programs for different audience, primary aim of our work is to raise the awareness of public in medicine use and disposal.
    To teach proper use and disposal of medicine for elementary and secondary school students we run “Drug Detectives Project”, which won the first prize of the project contest of Ministry of Health in 2017. As a part of continuous Professional education we train our member pharmacists and pharmacy faculty students in the areas of Aromatherapy, Homeopathy pharmaceutical technology, magistral drugs, etc.
PRODUCTS
Oxo-biodegradable bio-bags, recyclable crafted paper bags, cleaning products without water pollution which produced by Turkish Marine Environment Protection Association (Turmepa) and organic aromatherapy oils are in the range of our environmental-friendly products.

Since ÇEKOOP is a non-profit cooperative, the income of this activity is funding social responsibility projects and the drug disposal which is collected from public for free.
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