Press Releases

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Published

19 Mar 2025

Large reporting discrepencies in Bulgarian waste collection data, new report says

Large reporting discrepencies in Bulgarian waste collection data, new report says

Published

10 Mar 2025

EU budget gap holding back municipal waste reform and decarbonisation in central and eastern Europe

EU budget gap holding back municipal waste reform and decarbonisation in central and eastern Europe

Published

26 Feb 2025

Consumption & Production

Zero Waste Europe calls for stronger circularity measures in the Clean Industrial Deal

Published

19 Feb 2025

Waste Framework Directive: Zero Waste Europe applauds waste cuts to food and textiles, slams weak EU ambition

Waste Framework Directive: Zero Waste Europe applauds waste cuts to food and textiles, slams weak EU ambition

Published

06 Feb 2025

Europe needs legally binding targets to drive progress in bio-waste collection and recycling

Published

01 Jan 2025

One year anniversary of bio-waste collection in Europe is a warning for recycling

Published

20 Dec 2024

Cities & Communities

Khmelnytskyi becomes second Ukrainian cities to join Zero Waste Cities certification

Published

09 Dec 2024

Cities & Communities

Lutsk becomes first Ukrainian city to join Zero Waste Cities certification

Published

21 Nov 2024

Chemical recycling

Still fifty years to commercially scale pyrolysis technologies, new paper finds

Published

14 Nov 2024

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Cities & Communities

Cities cannot afford to wait for governments to tackle fast fashion

Published

07 Nov 2024

Climate, Energy & Air Pollution

Civil society calls COP29 to deliver climate finance for waste methane leaving no one behind

Published

05 Nov 2024

Europe missing out on the potential of food waste, with almost 75% ending up in landfills or incinerated

Published

30 Oct 2024

Cities & Communities

Krk becomes first island in Croatia and second worldwide to become Zero Waste island

Published

03 Oct 2024

Cities & Communities

Plastic Change joins the ReuSe Vanguard Project in effort to cut packaging waste in cities

Published

24 Sep 2024

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Fair Resource Foundation

“Stop big polluters and member states from reporting false data”: EU Civil society demands the European Commission to stop 30 years of false reporting of collection, reuse and recycling results

Published

23 Sep 2024

Packaging Reuse

The inaugural Reuse Barometer reveals a growing reuse industry driven by strongly engaged consumers

Published

18 Sep 2024

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Consumption & Production

42 civil society organisations call on EU leaders to secure funding for the just transition in the next EU budget

Published

17 Sep 2024

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Cities & Communities

Public authorities must take bold action to curb single-use to maximise the benefits of reuse systems, says Zero Waste Europe