Waste consultancy Eunomia predicts that Northern Europe will have around 14 million tonnes of surplus residual waste treatment capacity by 2030

A delegation of MEPs and European parliamentary staff visited re-use facility in Strasbourg to see the benefits of re-use in the first hand.

Spain is the first country in the EU with recycling and re-use plan for household goods.

Destiny Watford wins 2016 Goldman Environmental Prize for cancelling the construction of trash incinerator in Baltimore.

Earth Day (22th April) is approaching and Welovebudapest.com prepared a recycling guide for Budapest. By disposing their household waste in specified places, residents of Budapest can contribute to recycling.

According to Eurostat statistics on waste released on 22/03/16, each European generated 475 kg of waste in 2014, only 44% of this is being recycled or composted. The remaining 56% ended up landfilled (28%) or incinerated (27%).

On Wednesday 24 February, representatives of the city of Prelog and six surrounding municipalities signed the European “Zero Waste 2020” strategy at a conference in Prelog organised by NGO Zelena akcija / Friends of the Earth Croatia and the communal waste company PRE-KOM. In signing the strategy, the local authorities – which are already leaders in sustainable waste management in Croatia – have committed to meet the ambitious goal of 70% separately collected waste by 2020.

The German city of Hamburg has banned coffee pods from state-run buildings as part of an environmental drive to reduce waste. Should others follow suit, asks Chris Stokel-Walker.