In the beginning of February we held our yearly seminars for customers in Sweden. This year, we also offered them to participate online by live webcasting our...
March 2015
GREEN DOT (CYPRUS) HOT NEWS FROM GREEN DOT CYPRUS
Green Dot Cyprus is engaged as a major partner in a European Project entitled "Rethink (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) Awareness Raising Campaign for the promotion...
HERRCO (GREECE) PAN-HELLENIC SURVEY REGARDING PACKAGING RECYCLING
HERRCO commissioned one of the most reliable research companies for public opinion, to undergo a Pan-Hellenic survey regarding Packaging Recycling.The...
PYR (FINLAND) TAKE-BACK NETWORK FOR CONSUMER PACKAGING IN FINLAND STARTING UP
The producer run take-back scheme for consumer packaging should be in place on 1 January 2016. Careful planning and the acquisition of the right partners through an invitation to tender for the...
VALORLUX (LUXEMBOURG) 10 YEARS ECO-BAG: A POSITIVE ENVIRONMENTAL BALANCE
At the celebration of the 10th anniversary of the eco-bag Madam the Minister Carole Dieschbourg, explained that Luxembourg with 18 plastic bags per habitant per year, is already well under the...
TAMIR (ISRAEL) TAMIR’S EXTREME SHOTS VIDEO
On November 23rd, 2014, we uploaded an edited video to our facebook and YouTube page. Our main goal was to show other perspectives of recycling, a fun perspective. The video presented its viewers...
CONAI (ITALY) ANCI-CONAI AGREEMENT: HIGHER FEES FOR THE MUNICIPALITIES AND A NEW PLAN FOR THE TERRITORY
CONAI has signed a new agreement with ANCI (National Associaton of Italian Municipalities), lasting five years, from April 2014 to March 2019, establishing the amount of fees to be paid to the...
ECOEMBES (SPAIN) PREVENTION WORKING GROUP WITH PUBLIC ADMINISTRATIONS
Ecoembes set up in 2014 a working group on Prevention with the 17 Autonomous Communities and the Ministry of Environment. It has been created as a tool to share knowledge, experience and opinions to...
GREENPAK (MALTA) RECORD COLLECTION OF PLASTIC CAPS BY GREENPAK GENERATES €15,000 FOR CHARITY
A record number of 7,274,833 plastic caps were gathered in less than two months from over 90 organisations across Malta and Gozo and deposited at GreenPak for recycling. A Centre catering for...
FOSTPLUS (BELGIUM) 10 YEARS OF AWARENESS RAISING ACTIVITY IN WASTE MANAGEMENT IN BELGIAN PRIMARY SCHOOLS
The Recycling Initiation Module (RIM) teaches children about better waste management. Ten years ago Fost Plus decided to join forces with GoodPlanet Belgium and inter-municipal waste management...
TRIMAN LOGO COMES INTO FORCE IN FRANCE
Since the beginning of 2015, the ‘Triman’ logo officially entered into force after some years of debates in France. The purpose of this new black stickman figure is to inform consumers whether or...
THE EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENT AGENCY HAS PUBLISHED ITS FIVE-YEARLY ASSESSMENT ‘THE EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENT – STATE AND OUTLOOK 2015’ (SOER 2015)
The report states that “waste management had improved, but Europe remains far from a circular economy”. The positive developments include decrease of generation of municipal waste per capita by 4%...