How can a festival help build a movement?

Cyprus’s environmental movement has grown from isolated advocacy into coordinated action. In 2021, four organisations united to form the Zero Waste Alliance Cyprus (ZWAC), and launched together food waste prevention projects, water refill stations, and zero waste city initiatives.

In 2025, they co-organised the Zero Trace Festival in Limassol, demonstrating that zero waste principles can work in real, public, urban settings, and that civil society, municipalities, cultural spaces, and citizens can genuinely collaborate. The festival was a gathering of people, artists, and communities, coming together not just to learn, but to connect, exchange, and imagine what comes next. A story of shared values turning into visible change.

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