Press Releases

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Published

27 Jun 2018

Break Free From Plastic

Food to go? Bye bye to single-use containers! – New Case Study

Published

25 Jun 2018

Cities & Communities

Virtuous Municipalities to Starbucks: please do not use disposable cups in Italy

Published

14 Jun 2018

Climate, Energy & Air Pollution

Member States to phase-out subsidies to incineration, separate collection obligations prevail

Published

28 May 2018

Break Free From Plastic

European Commission steps forward to cut on single-use plastics – but it’s just the beginning

Published

14 May 2018

Consumption & Production

Renewable energy proposal boycotts the EU Plastic Strategy and the Circular Economy

Published

11 May 2018

Ecologists Without Borders

First Slovenian Hotel on the Zero Waste path — Hotel Ribno

Published

02 May 2018

Break Free From Plastic

New tax on non-recycled plastic packaging waste will fail to address the plastic pollution crisis

Published

18 Apr 2018

The Circular Economy Package is approved, now it is time to make it real

Published

10 Apr 2018

Break Free From Plastic

Plastic packaging failing to prevent food waste crisis, new study finds

Published

28 Mar 2018

Consumption & Production

Citizens’ pressure convince UK government to introduce deposit schemes for beverages

Published

30 Jan 2018

Cities & Communities

Sardinia paves the way towards Zero Waste on islands

Published

17 Jan 2018

The European Parliament halts perverse subsidies to energy from mixed waste

Published

16 Jan 2018

Break Free From Plastic

The European Commission steps forward to reduce plastic pollution

Published

20 Dec 2017

Cities & Communities

French city of Besançon saves €800,000 through extensive use of decentralised composting

Published

18 Dec 2017

Cities & Communities

Circular Economy? Member States want it ‘despacito’

Published

29 Nov 2017

Climate, Energy & Air Pollution

Press release: Industry MEPs vote to exclude subsidies for waste-to-energy from mixed waste

Published

10 Nov 2017

Consumption & Production

Europe must design economic incentives fit for a circular economy

Published

24 Oct 2017

Climate, Energy & Air Pollution

The Environment Committee’s vote on Renewable Energy confirms its commitment to Circular Economy