Plastic – Zero Waste Cities https://zerowastecities.eu Just another WordPress site Tue, 02 Jun 2020 07:07:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.6 Local guidance on implementing the Single-Use Plastics Directive https://zerowastecities.eu/local-guidance-on-implementing-the-sup-directive/ Wed, 27 May 2020 09:48:34 +0000 https://zerowastecities.eu/?p=2006 The COVID-19 pandemic has, amongst many other things, allowed us to take a step back from our unsustainable consumption and […]

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]]> How the Zero Waste Cities approach can prevent marine and plastic litter in the Mediterranean? https://zerowastecities.eu/how-zero-waste-cities-can-prevent-marine-and-plastic-litter/ Wed, 01 Apr 2020 09:12:41 +0000 https://zerowastecities.eu/?p=1872 Rezero – Waste Prevention and Responsible Consumption Foundation – is a non-profit independent organisation founded in 2005, with the aim of […]

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]]> Preventing marine litter across Europe’s coasts https://zerowastecities.eu/cap-on-litter/ Mon, 02 Mar 2020 09:00:11 +0000 https://zerowastecities.eu/?p=1821 The CAP on LITTER project aims at improving policies and practices that can help in preventing marine litter that results […]

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]]> Vilnius says no more single-use plastic! https://zerowastecities.eu/vilnius-says-no-more-single-use-plastic/ Thu, 20 Feb 2020 07:33:15 +0000 https://zerowastecities.eu/?p=1787 The city of Vilnius, Lithuania, recently announced that single-use plastic – especially on tableware –  will no longer be used […]

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]]> Together, we wrote the first chapter of a new story of plastic https://zerowastecities.eu/we-wrote-the-first-chapter-of-a-new-story-of-plastic/ Mon, 02 Dec 2019 14:14:38 +0000 https://zerowastecities.eu/?p=1539 On November 13th, Zero Waste Europe (ZWE), the Rethink Plastic Alliance (RPa), and Break Free From Plastic (BFFP) hosted a […]

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]]> Stopping the problem at its source https://zerowastecities.eu/stopping-the-problem-at-its-source/ Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:26:11 +0000 https://zerowastecities.eu/?p=1367 The plastic waste crisis cannot be solved by recycling alone, that is becoming increasingly clear. Every day, billions of tonnes […]

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]]> The Asia we know https://zerowastecities.eu/the-asia-we-know/ Fri, 18 Oct 2019 09:00:20 +0000 https://zerowastecities.eu/?p=1314 Earlier this week, hundreds of local government officials and non-government organisations (NGOs), including fellow GAIA members, gathered in Penang for […]

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