Redesigning Producer Responsibility – Executive Summary

A new study commissioned by Zero Waste Europe finding majority of product waste is not covered by current Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) schemes and calling for redesign in order to move towards a circular economy.

Available in: English & Polish

The Potential Contribution of Waste Management to a Low Carbon Economy – Executive Summary

The Executive Summary of our report into the potential that waste management poses for the transition to a low carbon economy. This report commissioned by Zero Waste Europe, in partnership with Zero Waste France and ACR+  and conducted by Eunomia, highlights key problems with the current UNFCCC waste inventories, as well as providing recommendations for their improvement.

The Executive Summary includes key recommendations and findings from the full report.

Slovenian Trailblazers

In a country that until 2001 had no national targets for separate collection of waste, the case of the small municipality of Vrhnika in Slovenia shows how a community can make strides towards a Zero Waste objective in a short time.

How did this small area go from landfilling everything to recycling most of its MSW in 20 years?

Available in: Bulgarian, Catalan, English, Euskera, French, Italian, Polish, Romanian, Slovenian, Spanish.