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ZW Best practices: Hernani
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Hernani is one of the first towns in Gipuzkoa to have declared Zero Waste. As a result, since 2009 waste recycling has almost quadrupled whereas waste generation has been substantially...
Time to vote out waste at the People’s Design Lab
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One of the most challenging fractions of waste in a zero waste vision is all that is left over after recycling—because it is either too toxic to be safely recycled...
What to do with the “leftovers” of Zero Waste
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Zero Waste is about minimising waste generation, maximising reuse & recycle and redesigning the economy in order to phase out those products that are either toxic or not recyclable. However,...
From the 3Rs to the Zero Waste hierarchy
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Have you heard of the 3R, Reduce, Reuse Recycle? This was the first waste hierarchy that was popularised. Even Jack Johnson wrote a song about it, see: It is true...
Catalan Zero Waste network launches pilot bottle-deposit project in Cadaqués
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When waste has a value littering disappears and recycling skyrockets. This is in a nutshell what the deposit system for packaging waste is about; one pays a deposit when buying...
Rossano Ercolini, president of Zero Waste Europe 2013 wins the Green Nobel award
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The Goldman Environmental Prize, considered to be the “Green Nobel”, has been awarded to Rossano Ercolini, leader of the Zero Waste movement in Italy (Rifiuti Zero) and president of Zero...
Kick off of the Citizens Initiative for a Italian Zero Waste Law 2020!
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Capannori was the first European town to adhere the Zero Waste goal for 2020, will Italy also be the first EU country to pass a ZW law? On March 27...
How much plastic litter is currently in EU waters?
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Nobody knows. In fact, marine litter in European waters is not only of European origin, it stems from any other place in the world where trash is dumped into the...
Looking for solutions to single-use coffee-capsules
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Since the invention of coffee-capsules we have seen how this potentially recyclable item was filling up more and more waste bins. In places where waste separation is at highest levels...
Potocnik: “Zero Waste is the right aspiration”
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More than two hundred people including members of the European Parliament, mayors and local decision-makers, European Commission, the European Commissioner for the Environment Janez Potocnik and the famous actor Jeremy...
Recycling stagnates in the EU – lesson for EU waste & resource policy?
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Sad news for the European Union; 2011 statistics show how despite the economic downturn and the decrease in consumption waste generation stays stable, recycling and composting stagnate and so does...
Dopper, the bottle is the message!
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Dopper decided to give an alternative to the use of millions of single-use plastic bottles that are tossed away every minute. Indeed, the opposite of Zero Waste is using a...
Zero Waste goes to the European Parliament in Brussels!
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It was about time to bring the Zero Waste ideas to the European institutions. With the help of the Green group in the European Parliament and with the support of...
A Zero Waste world? Let’s Do It!
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From 1st to 3rd of February 175 -mostly- young people from all over the world met in Estonia to talk rubbish and ended up talking about zero waste The Let’sDoItWorld...
“TRASHED”: More than 600 people for the first screening in Italy
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The “Odeon” cinema in Florence was literally packed. Spectacular! The Italian premiere of TRASHED by english director Candida Brady – a wonderful film with crude images and at the same...
More incineration than trash to burn in the EU
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A study commissioned by GAIA concludes that in some member states such as Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Holland and the UK there is already more incineration capacity than non-recyclable waste generated...
Congratulations Alessio Ciacci, Green person fo the year 2012 in Italy
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The councilor for the environment of the town of Capannori, Alessio Ciacci, has been voted Personaggio Ambiente 2012 in Italy. Capannori, province of Lucca, Italy, was the first town in...
Final Destination Pata Rât – One man’s trash is another man’s treasure
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Want to see what is at the other end of our throw-away society? Read the guest article below written by our Zero Waste member in Romania. By Elena Rastei Photos...
Fantastic plastic
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Plastic represents one of the biggest contradictions of our society. One one hand it is a material that it is strong, cheap and light and hence its convenience means it...
Granel : buy food, not packaging
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Following the steps of Effecorta in Italy and Unpackaged in the UK, Granel is the shop to go in Barcelona if you want to buy food, not packaging. Granel (which...
