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 EWWR Awards Ceremony, hosted by the European Committee of the Regions in Brussels on 15 May 2019, gathered over 150 waste reduction enthusiasts from across Europe. Of the 16 finalists, six received awards in different categories.
The EWWR is now preparing for the 2019 edition to take place between 16 and 24 November. Materials on this year’s theme, “Waste education and communication”, are available online. Under the slogan “Change your ways, reduce your waste” and the hashtags #EWWR2019 and #ReduceYourWaste, EWWR is challenging participants to educate themselves and others about their consumption and waste generation and to make changes to their lives to mitigate their environmental impact.
Furthermore, the EWWR is actively recruiting additional regional and national coordinators from all over Europe and beyond. Are you interested in organising volunteers your territory and closely supporting the EWWR? Contact the This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. now to join the EWWR 2019 as a coordinator!
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 this 9th edition 40 coordinators across 30 countries coordinated and promoted the EWWR on their territory, which resulted in mobilising thousands of Actions Developers that implemented 13,410 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 87,000 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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