The European Week for Waste Reduction (EWWR) is the biggest Europe-wide initiative promoting the implementation of awareness-raising actions about sustainable resource and waste management during a single week. It encourages a wide range of audiences (public authorities, private companies, schools, civil society as well as citizens themselves) to get involved.
Since 1 July 2017, the EWWR is coordinated by the EWWR Steering Committee. The project was originally launched in 2009 under the European Commission’s LIFE+ programme, which co-financed the project until mid-2017.
Highlights
The European Week for Waste Reduction was back for another intensive week of awareness-raising events from 20 to 28 November 2021. For its 13th edition, over 12,400 actions related to waste reduction, products reuse, materials recycling, as well as clean-ups were carried out across 30 countries in Europe and beyond. This year, the campaign decided to concentrate on circular communities, highlighting the key role played by local communities in the transition towards sustainable consumption and production patterns. The key word is collaboration among individuals or groups of people to imagine and build together communities based on the circular economy approach all around Europe and beyond! These uncertain times showed us the importance of human contact but, most of all, the power that people have in changing daily habits. The best actions will be awarded in June during the EWWR Awards Ceremony.THE PROJECT
The European Week for Waste Reduction aims to mobilise as many actors as possible to implement awareness-raising actions on waste reduction, product reuse and materials recycling.
The actions implemented in the EWWR are addressing the “3Rs”: Reduce waste, Reuse products, Recycle material.
ACR+ is a member of the EWWR Steering Committee and acts as the EWWR Secretariat, coordinating the campaign at European level.
From 2009 to June 2017, the EWWR was funded under the LIFE+ Programme of the European Commission, first under the coordinator of ADEME, then of ACR+ from 2013, with several ACR+ members as partners in the project. At the end of June 2017, the LIFE+ programme financing of the EWWR ended. Nonetheless, the EWWR continued its mission to reduce waste under the supervision of its new EWWR Steering Committee (find out more here) which includes several ACR+ members and is managed by ACR+.
In the 13th edition, 38 coordinators across 30 countries coordinated and promoted the EWWR on their territory, which resulted in mobilising thousands of Actions Developers that implemented 12,489 actions across Europe and beyond. Every year sees the increase in the number of participants in the EWWR. So far the EWWR has reached a total of over 120,000 actions implemented since its first edition in 2009.
There are three ways of taking part in the European Week for Waste Reduction:
- Participant: individual or a group;
- Action Developer: public authority, association, NGO, business, educational establishment, another body or an individual citizen;
- EWWR Coordinator: public authority competent in the field of waste prevention.
Don’t hesitate and take part in the EWWR!
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