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2016. január 06.
What a great competition we had this year! Schools, groups of friends, visionary individuals,entrepreneurs, professionals and organisations all submitted their videos for the “The Power of Compost” competition. We wanted to hear your composting stories, and learn more about the inspirational ways that you and your communities are taking action to reduce organic waste and we got plenty of them. Thank you to all of those who participated :-) |
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2015. december 10.
Air pollution problems from waste incineration activities across Europe may be “significant” and “serious”, a report produced for Zero Waste Europe claims. |
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2015. december 09.
At the conference “Zero Waste: A Key Solution Pathway for a low carbon future” that took place in Paris December 3rd Zero Waste Europe officially launched the ‘Zero Waste Cities’ map of European municipalities committed to moving towards zero waste. |
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2015. december 05.
Under proposed new law, European countries must recycle 65% of their trash, 75% of their product packaging and slash landfill dumping |
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2015. december 02.
They joined hands against climate change and violence |
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2015. november 29.
The European Commission’s draft waste and incineration laws to replace the package it axed under its drive for “better regulation”, has weaker targets for recycling and landfill than its predecessor. |
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2015. november 29.
While many countries struggle to get rid of household waste, Norway cannot get enough of it - to run its waste-to-energy incinerator plants. Oslo even has to import waste, and is blaming Sweden for its problems. |
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2015. november 23.
Weakened draft regulations omit a new law that would have obliged countries to reduce waste by 30% by 2025 |
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2015. november 18.
In a policy paper released today Zero Waste Europe warns against the use of landfill bans and advocates for the use of more effective instruments to reduce residual waste and advance towards a circular economy. |
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2015. november 16.
The European Commission is set to include mandatory separate food collections in its upcoming circular economy package, a leaked draft directive suggests. |