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Published

08 May 2025

JRC’s flawed recycling study fails to support circular policy
Chemical recycling

JRC’s flawed recycling study fails to support circular policy

Published

29 Apr 2025

Cities & Communities

Municipalities worldwide are proving zero waste thrives locally

Published

23 Apr 2025

Strategic autonomy at risk if EU cannot tackle resource use head-on, new report says
resource use reduction

Strategic autonomy at risk if EU cannot tackle resource use head-on, new report says

Published

14 Apr 2025

Packaging Reuse

Reformed EPR can boost EU competitiveness and strategic autonomy, study reveals

Published

07 Apr 2025

Zero Waste Europe - general

Attacks on NGos in the European Parliament: 570+ organisations join forces to defend civil society

Published

01 Apr 2025

New data links waste incinerators to toxic contamination in surrounding environments - Spain, France, Netherlands
The True Toxic Toll - biomonitoring research

New data links waste incinerators to toxic contamination in surrounding environments – Spain, France, Netherlands

Published

27 Mar 2025

Let's Do It Foundation

Tallinn becomes first Estonian Zero Waste Candidate City

Published

19 Mar 2025

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

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
Bio-waste

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
Food Policy

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

Published

06 Feb 2025

Bio-waste

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

Published

01 Jan 2025

Bio-waste

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

ZWE Cities cannot afford to wait for governments to tackle fast fashion PR Visual
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