On Monday, Parliament and Council reached a provisional agreement on revamped rules to reduce, reuse and recycle packaging, increase safety and boost the circular economy.

On Tuesday, Parliament approved updated EU procedures and control measures for waste shipments.

The World Bank (International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, IBRD) today priced a seven-year $100 million, principal-protected Plastic Waste Reduction-Linked Bond.

A number of problematic marketing habits related to greenwashing and the early obsolescence of goods will be added to the EU list of banned commercial practices.

Minister Steffi Lemke praises the results of the Sino-German meeting in Taicang, China. The goal is to deepen cooperation between the two countries.

Less unnecessary packaging and waste | Ban on “forever chemicals” in food packaging | Each European generates almost 190kg of packaging waste every year

The single use packaging tax in the city of Tübingen

The government in France has installed a new ruling which establishes which fruits and vegetables are allowed to continue to be sold in a plastic packaging.

At the end of July, the EU Commission published its delegated act to concretise the taxonomy regulation which was approved in principle at the middle of the same month.

Cities all over the globe have been joining the Zero Waste movement regardless of their starting point, economy, size, or any other factor.

Heavily cited studies which favour single-use over reuse often lack transparency and have implicit biases against reuse due to funders’ interests, cherrypicked scenarios and false assumptions, according to a new report by Reloop and Zero Waste Europe.

Scientists establish world-first database mapping research on plastic chemicals to potential human harms

It makes abundant sense to encourage or even mandate the use of tableware.