Each month, our ZWE Changemakers campaign sheds a spotlight on one of our member organisations. This month, we are visiting our Estonian associate member, Let’s Do It Foundation. Let’s Do It Foundation (LDIF) was established in 2011 to support the growth of a civic movement of nation-wide cleanup actions, such [...]
Last week’s top acronym trending on my social media? INC-2. Feeling awkward that you do not know what that stands for? Don’t. The results of my backroom survey: half of the people attending the INC-2 meeting had a hard time saying what this acronym stands for. Still though, the many [...]
Zero Waste Europe (ZWE)’s Network-Wide Gathering was celebrated this year in Guimarães, a quiet and green little town in the north of Portugal, with just over 150.000 inhabitants spread over a diverse territory, from a beautiful historical city centre to the more rural parishes. This gathering is ZWE’s yearly event [...]
“Nothing left behind”. The title of the study authored by Equanimator and just published by ZWE nicely depicts the role that Mixed Wase Sorting (MWS) may play from now on. For at ZWE, we do give importance to all the highest levels of the hierarchy, including reduction, reuse, DRS, separate collection, [...]
Each month, our ZWE Changemakers campaign sheds a spotlight on one of our member organisations. This month, we head to Latvia to our member Zero Waste Latvija. Born out of a social media group of advocates to exchange zero waste tips, the organisation now grew into a leading organisation that [...]
Today marks the first-ever International Day of Zero Waste. As an organisation that goes almost by the same name, we ask ourselves how this relates to the different waste streams we deal with in our daily work on EU waste policy and, especially, what does this mean for one of [...]
Time: 11 May 2023 · 2:00-3:30 PM (CEST) Click here to register for the webinar Recycling has an important role to play in closing the material loop, as it keeps already used resources and increases the circularity of plastic packaging. To ensure the uptake of recycled materials, the European institutions [...]
Over the last decade, the concept of the Circular Economy (CE) has gained widespread popularity as a framework for waste reduction and management. The CE approach aims to close the loop by reusing and recycling materials, which reduces the demand for virgin materials and decreases pollution. This perspective has facilitated [...]
Friends of the Earth – SPZ, has been working in Slovakia since 1996, concentrating on the minimalization of pollution caused by waste and toxic substances. The organisation joined Zero Waste Europe’s network in 2021. It has been crucial in pushing for the separate collection of biowaste in Slovakia and has [...]
The European Commission is currently developing methods to calculate, verify and report recycled content in plastic bottles as part of the Single Use Plastics Directive (SUPD), and will continue this work for packaging. Indeed, the recently published Packaging, Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) proposal also includes recycled content targets. Once developed, [...]