This study presents the main findings of a literature review about municipalities’ separate waste collection (SWC) in EU Countries. Citizens’ behaviour plays a key role in separate collection. Thus, it is important to understand the main behavioural factors of waste sorting and how it can be encouraged. Along with the literature review, various stakeholders participated in a survey to identify the factors influencing SWC. We discuss when people are motivated and able to sort their waste. This allows for a much more detailed understanding of consumer waste sorting than simply socio-demographic characteristics. We also discuss how the factors affecting SWC vary from country to country.

The COASTAL Biogas project objective is to provide solutions based on anaerobic digestion of cast seaweed to coastal regions to tackle eutrophication, contribute to the transition to a circular bio-economy and improve prosperity.

This year, we invite you to challenge yourself to fight food waste. Choose which parts of the Digital Food Waste Fest 2.020 you want to join and create a programme that fits your schedule and ambitions. Let’s take the fight against food waste together to the next level!

23 Partners from 10 Countries and 8 Lighthouse Cities/Regions to Deploy Circular Bioeconomy Solutions for Making Innovative Bio-Based Products

First International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste observed on 29 September 2020

The European research project REFRESH has examined how private and public stakeholders can work together to turn food waste into worthwhile commodities.

Household food waste in the UK has increased by nearly a third as coronavirus lockdown restrictions have been eased and could spiral further, new research has warned.

In Europe, just 16% of bio waste is processed to some form of useful application. Meaning: food and garden waste. An upcoming report by the Biobased Industries Consortium and Zero Waste Europe calculates the potential, and maps interesting and successful policies.

There is significant potential to increase recycling across Europe for municipal, construction and electronic waste according to a European Environment Agency briefing. Compared to current recycled amounts, this potential can double recycling for municipal and electronic waste and increase it by 30 % for construction and demolition waste.

The COASTAL Biogas project focuses on the removal of excess nutrients from the Baltic Sea by collecting und utilising cast seaweed from beaches. One of the aims in COASTAL Biogas is to inform about the whole process chain of cast seaweed utilisation.

A first-of-its-kind report identifying the untapped potential to valorise bio-waste (garden and food waste) in Europe by the Bio-based Industries Consortium (BIC) and Zero Waste Europe (ZWE).

Bio-waste is one of the key waste streams in Europe and holds great potential for the circular economy. According to the European Environment Agency’s new assessment, reducing and using bio-waste could cut emissions, improve soils and provide energy. Recycling bio-waste is also key for meeting the European Union’s target to recycle 65 % of municipal waste by 2035.

A research group at the University of Cordoba aims to establish the best valorization paths for restaurant food waste.

EU-funded project Agrimax has launched an innovative new online service which enables crop producers, food processers and agricultural cooperatives to sell their waste as feedstock for two biorefineries: one in Spain and one in Italy. This will help maximise the EU’s sustainability while providing new biobased compounds for the chemicals, food-packaging and agricultural sectors.

The project aims to showcase, at demonstration scale, the feasibility of producing and valorising second-generation sugars derived from municipal solid waste.

Researchers in Spain and Portugal are testing organic compost to understand how it could reduce the concentration of pollutants in wastewater and lessen soil degradation. By testing different mixtures, researchers are hoping to produce better-quality compost.

Waste products from farms could be used to produce a high-energy, low-cost and environmentally-friendly feed for livestock. Scientists from the Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences (IBERS) at Aberystwyth University are working with colleagues from University College Cork in Ireland to investigate how slurry and wastewater from the dairy industry could be put to better use.

Town halls will need to roll out food waste collections to millions more homes in England under Government plans to stop leftovers going to landfill, figures show.

The study presents a strategy to produce a wood fiber based yarn to be used as a platform for human and veterinary pharmaceutical hormone capture.