🚨𝐄𝐔 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧: 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐩 𝐛𝐢𝐠 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚🚨 Un Pinocho 🤥 de papel visita la Comisión para denunciar que las marcas🥤reportan datos falsos sobre el reciclaje de los #envases. Más info👉 retorna.org/news/es_ES/202…

🚨 Alarming new numbers from EU_Eurostat on #foodwaste Despite years of effort to save food from waste bins across Europe, the latest numbers show another slight increase between the years 2021 and 2022! Where do we stand? Read more👉zurl.co/6sxK

Great #reuse news from #Denmark and reverberating all over Europe as Plastic Change becomes the latest ReuSe Vanguard Project (RSVP) core partner! Learn more 👇 zerowasteeurope.eu/press-release/… #reusesystems

Beyond Competitiveness: The EU's Path to Self-Defined Prosperity open.substack.com/pub/jmsimon/p/…

📆 𝗦𝗔𝗩𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘 - 𝗭𝗘𝗥𝗢 𝗪𝗔𝗦𝗧𝗘 𝗙𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗩𝗔𝗟 2025 🎪 Get our calendars out and mark 26-27 March 2025 as the second edition of the #ZeroWaste #Festival in Barcelona! ✅ 👀 Keep watching this space for the upcoming registration link and more Festival news!

🚨#𝗪𝗲𝗯𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗿 𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗿𝘁🚨 On 5 November, join Bio-based Industries Consortium and ZWE for a webinar to discuss the findings of the 2nd edition of their report on the current and future availability of #biowaste in the EU-27 (published on the same day). Registration: zurl.co/Xap8

🔄 Join us on 3 December for an exclusive chat w/ Simon Rossau on @aarhuskomune's pioneering city-scale #reuse system! Learn how they built the world's 1st open-managed reusable takeaway programme and get your Qs answered by the project lead. Register at zurl.co/S4BZ

🤩 Are you our new #Textiles Officer? Location: Belgium, hybrid between home and our Brussels office. Duration: 12-months with option to extend. Application deadline: 5 Dec 2024. Start date: ASAP. Apply now: zerowasteeurope.eu/join-us/work-w… #NowHiring

Se nos han vendido los sistemas de Responsabilidad Ampliada del Productor como la panacea para la gestión de los #residuos, pero parece que han perpetuado el problema más que ponerle solución. Más info en este informe de Zero Waste Europe: zerowasteeurope.eu/library/extend… Cc: Joan Marc Simon

BREAKING 🚨 Observers react to state of #PlasticsTreaty negotiations and hold press conference in from of #INC5 calling countries to show #CourageNotCompromise - Read 👉 breakfreefromplastic.org/2024/11/29/cou… #BreakFreeFromPlastic Center for International Environmental Law Greenpeace International

Global #PlasticsTreaty: we are getting there. Slowly. Find out why Busan's negotiations were both a failure & a success & why an ambitious treaty later is better than a bad treaty now👇 zerowasteeurope.eu/2024/12/global…

#PPWR is done, the odyssey continues. My mixed feelings about the recently approved EU packaging legislation 👇 jmsimon.substack.com/p/ppwr-is-appr…

The EU’s circularity rate has barely moved in a decade—just 1% increase since 2010. Meanwhile, waste generation keeps rising. If we want to double circularity by 2030, we need more than recycling—we must tackle consumption. Walking on one leg won’t cut it jmsimon.substack.com/p/the-one-legg…

🌍♻️ The Global Deposit and Return Platform is now live! ♻️🌍 During the launch, many questions arose about the project: its scope, objectives, funding… 💡 We’ve gathered them all in one place. We move towards a planet free of abandoned packaging. #DRS globalDRSplatform.net