The European Week for Waste Reduction (EWWR)
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, 2009 was launched as a 3-year project supported by the LIFE+ Programme of the
European Commission
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until July 2012. It continues taking place in the following years. The 2012 edition of the EWWR took place from 17 to 25 November 2012 under the patronage of Mr Janez Potočnik, European Commissioner for the Environment.
It aims to organize multiple actions during a single week, across Europe, that will raise awareness about
waste reduction
Waste minimisation is a set of processes and practices intended to reduce the amount of waste produced. By reducing or eliminating the generation of harmful and persistent wastes, waste minimisation supports efforts to promote a more sustainab ...
. Each year, the most outstanding actions are rewarded during an awards ceremony in Brussels at the heart of the European institutions. Since the beginning of the project, more than 20.000 awareness raising actions on waste prevention have been implemented in the framework of the EWWR.
The 2017 date is from 18 to 27 November.
The five partners of this project are:
* ADEME (the French Environment and Energy Management Agency – project coordinator)
* ACR+ (the Association of Cities and Regions for Recycling and sustainable Resource management – project technical secretariat)
* ARC (the Catalan Waste Agency)
* IBGE (Brussels Environment, public administration for the environment and energy) and
* LIPOR (the Intermunicipal Waste Management Service of
Greater Porto
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It corresponded to 11 municipalities out of 16, the other 5 in ...
).
See also
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Waste minimisation
Waste minimisation is a set of processes and practices intended to reduce the amount of waste produced. By reducing or eliminating the generation of harmful and persistent wastes, waste minimisation supports efforts to promote a more sustainab ...
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Reuse
Reuse is the action or practice of using an item, whether for its original purpose (conventional reuse) or to fulfill a different function ( creative reuse or repurposing). It should be distinguished from recycling, which is the breaking down of u ...
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Waste hierarchy
Waste hierarchy is a tool used in the evaluation of processes that protect the environment alongside resource and energy consumption from most favourable to least favourable actions. The hierarchy establishes preferred program priorities based ...
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Waste management
Waste management or waste disposal includes the processes and actions required to manage waste from its inception to its final disposal.
This includes the collection, transport, treatment and disposal of waste, together with monitoring ...
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Miniwaste
Miniwaste was a European project operated from January 2010 to December 2012, designed to "bring bio-waste back to life". In other words, it was intended to demonstrate that it is possible to significantly reduce the amount of bio-waste at a local ...
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Pre-waste
Waste minimisation is a set of processes and practices intended to reduce the amount of waste produced. By reducing or eliminating the generation of harmful and persistent wastes, waste minimisation supports efforts to promote a more sustaina ...
References
External links
European Week for Waste Reduction
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Waste in Europe
Environmental websites
Waste minimisation
Waste in the European Union
November observances