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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 with its network of members […]

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“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, recycling and composting – including […]

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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 educates on waste prevention practices, […]

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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 the most wasteful industries – […]

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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 introduced recycled content targets in […]

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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 the adoption of the CE […]

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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 supported two municipalities in joining […]

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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, the method will set a […]

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Double standards When it comes to general global public perceptions, there are clear double standards at play between the Global North and the Global South. And that is particularly visible when talking about the environment and social justice. In most news circles and dominant narratives of the Northern hemisphere and Western World, the northern part […]

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Time: 14 March 2023 · 2:00 PM (CET) Click here to register for the webinar The current model of fast fashion is one of the main drivers of overconsumption, resource depletion and social exploitation. Legislative initiatives aimed at restructuring the sector – like the EU strategy for sustainable textiles – focus on more sustainable products […]

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Zero Waste North West was set up in 2013 , when there was plans to build a municipal waste gasification facility in Strathfoyle. Following the successful abandonment of the proposal by the council, the organisation expanded to continue educating on and promoting zero waste measures, while collaborating with other organisations to advocate for clean and […]

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