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European Week for Waste Reduction
Goodyear uses waste from rice harvest to fabricate efficient tires
UNEP challenges students to reduce food waste
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FOREWORD
INDEX
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SUSTAINABLE NEWS
1100 Eco-Schools Green Flags delivered in Gaia
16th International Industrial Environment and Sustainability Fair
(FIMAI)
IWA World Water Congress held in Lisbon
European Week for Waste Reduction with several initiatives
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INTERVIEW
Dr Carlos Mauro
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ARTICLE
Ecomondo 2014 - Mediterranean platform for green economy
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CURRENT EVENTS
A recent study concludes that open dumps are increasing
Goodyear uses waste from rice harvest to fabricate efficient tires
Fusions project - for the reduction of food waste in Europe
Governments, companies, civil society and indigenous leaders commit
to halt the loss of forest area
New edition of TerraTec at Leipzig
UNEP challenges students to reduce food waste
New app to help reduce food waste
UN agencies together for the sake of food security
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LAW
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AGENDA / CREDITS
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European Week for Waste
Reduction
#ewwr
The European Week for Waste Reduction (EWWR) runs between 22
and 30 November. This initiative
aims to promote actions for raising
awareness to the problem of waste,
in particular prevention, with several initiatives, such as animations,
workshops, and other activities on
this theme.
According to the hierarchy of the
3R’s (Reduce waste, Reuse and
Recycle), Waste Prevention is the
first priority of the European Week
for Waste Reduction. In this framework, different Thematic Days
of Prevention will be implemented
throughout Europe, this year focusing primarily on Food Waste, and
how we can prevent it. There are
also new improvements in comparison to last year’s edition, aimed at
facilitating everyone’s participation,
especially in what concerns registration to the event, which can now
be made directly at the European
website by following the link. Registrations are then validated by the
regional organizers.
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16th International Industrial Environment and
Sustainability Fair (FIMAI)
FIMAI/ SIMAI
SUSTAINABLE
NEWS
1100 Eco-Schools Green
Flags delivered in Gaia
ABAE
On the past October 15th, the Municipal Pavilion of Vila Nova de Gaia, in
Portugal, received the Green Flags
Day 2014, organized by the European Blue Flag Association (ABAE).
The event was attended by over
4000 people, including students,
teachers, municipalities, government entities, institutional and private
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companies, among other guests.
At the event, schools who have distinguished themselves within the
various Eco-Schools projects that
took place in 2014 were awarded.
Of the 1236 schools in 218 municipalities that participated in the EcoSchools project during 2014, 89%
received the Eco-Schools Green
Flag. In the exhibition area, reserved
for exhibitors, several national entities attended, offering a variety of
activities in the environmental field
for the enjoyment of students participating in the event. In the exhibition space, other activities were
also available, such as photographs
on creative sceneries, face painting,
inflatables, among others.
FIMAI - International Industrial
Environment and Sustainability Fair
- is a remarkable international event,
held in São Paulo between 16th and
18th of November. Due to its international scope, its focus on industrial
environment and sustainability, diversity of exhibitors, parallel events
and its full program is considered the
most important fair in the Industrial
Environment sector in Latin America. With about six thousand visitors
a day, the audience participated in
more than 130 lectures, distributed
in four auditoriums, seminars and
exhibitions of various entities that
promote sustainability in industrial
processes and in the management of
environmental resources.
The event had representation of several countries with pavilions from
France, USA, Netherlands, China,
Argentina, and many others. Formato Verde was present, representing
Portugal.
FIMAI
ABAE
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IWA World Water
Congress held in Lisbon
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IWA
The IWA World Water Congress &
Exhibition was held in September,
at the Lisbon Congress Centre. The
event saw the participation of various
entities, both national and international, of the water sector, which participated in the exhibition area with
more than 200 exhibitors, as well
as lectures in the congress. More
than 5,000 specialists, coming from
97 countries, gathered for five days
of debate to identify and define new
solutions to address the global water crisis. The event was attended by
personalities from the industry, such
as Hans Rosling (speaker of one of
the busiest sessions of the event, addressing water as a driving force for
development and health), Sue Murphy (director of the Water Association
Australia, and winner of the Women
in Water award) and Willy Verstraete
(resource recovery specialist).
It was a very successful event,
which allowed the exchange of ideas,
experiences and knowledge for the
preservation and improvement of the
essential resource that is water.
The next edition will take place in
2016 in Brisbane, Australia.
HIGHLIGHT
To promote the prevention of
waste, it is essential to promote sustainable habits from their
youth. To this end, Formato Verde developed the theater play
“Preventão”. At the beginning of
the play, Preventão is alerted by
the narrator to stop his habits,
and is made aware of the need
to adopt new and more sustainable behaviors, in particular
for the prevention of waste production through a shopping trip.
Communication is simple, direct,
humorous, very interactive and
punctuated by information that
explains what are the best practices for the prevention of waste
production in everyday life.
IWA
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European Week for Waste
Reduction with several initiatives
EWWR
#ewwr #lessismore
The 6th edition of the European Week
for Waste Reduction focuses on Food
Waste and throughout Europe, there
are several players who can participate in this initiative by submitting a
number of initiatives relating to the
theme.
Within this event, which will take
place between 22 and 30 November,
Formato Verde will develop an initiative, partially focused on social networks, which will aim to raise awareness for the prevention of waste
production, especially food waste. In
this sense, during the EWWR, Formato Verde will develop the Less is More
initiative dedicating its communication channels Facebook and Twitter
to the event, placing posts on the
subjects in focus and looking to foster interaction, comments and sharing of posts by followers of different
accounts. Keep up with the action
facebook.com/formatoverdeglobal
and twitter.com/formatoverde.
In parallel with the activities developed under this week, a campaign
called “Let’s Clear Europe!” will take
place, running from May 8th to 10th
2015. This initiative aims to promote
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a cleaning day across Europe, involving and reaching the largest possible
number of citizens. Portugal’s regional organizers are LIPOR and Valorsul.
This action provides a unique opportunity to raise awareness of the public about the problem of waste, thus
helping to change people’s behavior.
EWWR
sustainability tip
#zerowaste
To celebrate the European Week for Waste Reduction, start following
some steps to help reduce waste in your daily life:
• Choose reusable bags;
• Put a “Advertising - no thank you” sticker in the mailbox;
• Avoid food waste, taking into account the expiration date;
• Choose to purchase products in bulk or packages of large size;
• Buy rechargeable products;
• Drink tap water;
• Print only what you really need;
“DID YOU KNOW THAT…
• If possible, start making compost;
#wasteprevention
• Repair damaged equipment before disposing of them.
Waste prevention occupies the top place in
the hierarchy of waste management, as defined by the European Union, and may take
two distinct forms:
• quantitative prevention (reducing the
amount of waste);
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• qualitative prevention (reducing the hazardousness of waste).
Valorsul
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INTERVIEW
#ewwr #lessismore
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Dr. Carlos Mauro has a post-doctorate in Philosophy from the Institute
of Philosophy of the University of
Porto (2010-11), a PhD of Philosophy
from the University of Porto (2009),
Master’s Degree in Public Administration and Government Getúlio Vargas Foundation, FGV-SP (2003) and
a degree in Economics from the Faculty of Economics, FAAP, São Paulo
(1996). Dr. Carlos Mauro has experience teaching courses in management and economics in Brazil and
Portugal, since 1999. He is currently
director of the BEO Lab and Assistant Professor, Faculty of Economics
and Management, Catholic Porto.
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Econews spoke with Dr. Carlos
Mauro, Director of BEO Lab and
Assistant Professor, Faculty of
Economics and Management,
Catholic University of Porto, on
behavioral issues related to the prevention and management of waste.
Econews: From November 22 to 30
the European Week for Waste Reduction is celebrated. With your help, and
based on the principles of behavioral
economics, we would like to know
what is available to the scientific community to promote behavior change in
relation to waste prevention.
Dr. Carlos Mauro: Waste prevention depends on specific, targeted
and intentional behaviors that are,
for example, consumption choices,
the decision about what to do with
the waste and the subsequent practical realization - to act. This small
set of propositions contains a strong
set of relationships between central elements of human behavior:
thought, decision making, action and
consequences. Behavioural economics can help us understand what are
the processes that lead us to act, for
example, in a selfish way, but not
necessarily more rational, when the
ideal thing, in collective terms, would
be to conduct a proper management
of our consumption and the consequent waste. My suggestion is that
policy-makers and all those involved
in the creation of policies related to
waste prevention keep in mind that
agents, which are the focus of these
policies, are not rational and do not
necessarily react in the expected
way towards economic, legal and
other incentives. A simple example
might be the kind of campaigns that,
in general, arise. Normally, they appeal to people’s empathy for collective victims, and often on the global
consequences for nature and the environment. The problem is that, contrary to what we think, we feel much
more empathy for unique, identified
cases, rather then for collective and
diffuse cases. When we are faced
with a donation request for an identified child at risk, we often donate
twice as much as when confronted
with requests for donations for 1,000
children at risk. This bias of rationality could be taken into account by policy-makers. If we showed the consequences of poor waste prevention
have for an identified person, or to a
specific, identified community, would
we not produce a better result? This
is just one of the many examples that
can be given about the possibility of
using scientific knowledge for the
benefit of changing environmentally
damaging behavior.
In the European Union, there has
been the growing implementation of
systems like Pay-As-You-Throw in
promoting not only the prevention of
waste but also the selective separation
of waste produced/adherence to recycling systems. Not infrequently, some
people are unhappy with the application of such rates, and in extreme cases the results are completely contrary
to the goals of the initiative. How can
behavioral economics help prevent this
kind of situations?
The incentive system described
above assumes that people are always sensitive, in a way, to economic incentives. It assumes that
if we increase the costs associated
with mixed waste, rational, economic agents will seek to reduce such
waste, reducing the burden of this
cost in their budget. The problem is
that economic agents are not rational and may be willing to pay more to
prove themselves displeased with,
for example, the way the policy is
implemented, or even the public policy itself. The effect of this is clearly
perverse: an increase in mixed waste
and decreased availability of households to consume goods and services that, in fact, generate greater
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ing experience that shows us that
we prefer to punish another for an
offer that we consider unfair, even if
it means that we stay in worse conditions. We call this phenomenon the
“altruistic punishment.” Therefore,
the direct answer to the question is
as follows: behavioral economics
can help prevent this type of situation by taking into consideration the
nature of the economic agent that is
not characterized, as we have seen,
by rationality along the lines that we
conceptualize it.
Citizens play a key role in the promotion and achievement of sustainable
development, especially as consumers.
What strategies should be used to disseminate a collective spirit of sustainable consumption, ie, leading citizens to
consider environmental aspects when
choosing and consuming a certain
product / service?
There are several issues that must be
considered when we think of public
policy as critical as the achievement
of sustainable development. However, I can say that the strategies are
not limited to the strategies provided
by behavioral economics. More generally, from my opinion and not from
a proposal clearly linked to behavioral economics, I could suggest that
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a cosmopolitan education, that decreases the psychological distance
exists between people from distant
locations could favor the collective/
planetary spirit. I mean an education
that not only favors local aspects,
but that strengthens our common
history, the history of the planet and
nature, thus increasing the sense
of belonging to the planet and nature, and also raising awareness
of our moral responsibility to others - whether close or distant. This
change, of a more utopian nature,
could lead us to a greater awareness
and moral responsibility on environmental sustainability, regardless of
consequences occuring near us, or
not, both in time and geographically.
More specifically, in the short term it
would help to take into account the
irrationality of the agent on behalf
of a good collective action. In this
case, we might think, for example, in
the case cited in the identified victim.
We could use this bias to produce a
collective action which produced the
desired results. However, if indeed
we are to develop the collective spirit in a deep and intense way, we will
have to look for a way to increase
our empathy for collective cases. I
do not see how to produce this collective spirit from a strategy directed
to results of short or medium term.
However, the problem is that sus-
tainability can not only be treated as
a long-term problem.
What is the role of the BEO Lab and
what is its main research and action
areas?
The BEO Lab is a laboratory of Behavioral Economics, Faculty of Economics and Management, Catholic
University Porto. The Lab is sponsored by four companies, PwC, the
NORS, Douro Azul and ASCENDI.
At this time, BEO Lab is dedicated,
always from behavioral economics,
to the following three areas: public
policy, organizational policies and
business and basic research on human behavior. Those who want more
information on the BEO Lab can visit
our website.
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ARTICLE
ECOMONDO 2014
MEDITERRANEAN PLATFORM FOR GREEN ECONOMY
business) and R2B (research to business) relationships.
The four day event was marked by the presence of the Minister of Environment
Gian Luca Galletti, the Minister of Labour Giuliano Poletti, the mayor of Rimini
Andrea Gnassi, the President of Rimini Fiera Lorenzo Cagnoni, and of the President of Italy Giorgio Napolitano through a statement read during the event.
Ecomondo is the Mediterranean platform of excellence for sustainable development, dedicated to the presentation of strategies and technology solutions
in several areas, such as management of municipal and industrial waste, protection and restoration of the environment, efficient management of water and
energy, renewable energy, sustainable mobility, sustainable and intelligent cities or bioindustries.
The 2014 edition, held from 5 to 8 November at Rimini Fiera Rimini, Italy, was
attended by over 100,000 visitors and 1200 exhibitors.
This year’s event, dedicated to green economy, paid special attention to the
urban and industrial waste cycles, demonstration of equipment and technologies for identifying the producer and production quantities, selective collection, waste transport, treatment, recycling and exploitation of various types
of waste: municipal, industrial, inert, noble metals, minerals, industrial and
household eletronic waste.
Ecomondo also proved to be an excellent stage for communication and dissemination of business opportunities and research funding, knowledge and
technologies in the area of green economy, through the intervention of more
than 1,000 lecturers who participated in the event.
This year the European, African, Asian and American continents were widely
represented through companies from 86 countries - including Portugal, which
made the 2014 Ecomondo the perfect meeting point for the sharing and exchange of experiences, developing partnerships as well as B2B (business to
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The Ecomondo extended over 100,000 m2 and 16 exhibition halls, divided into
the following sections: Ecomondo - recovery and reuse of materials and energy, Key Energy - wind energy, Oro Blu - solutions for water, H2R - sustainable
mobility, Cooperambiente - cooperative solutions for the environment, Condominio Eco - solutions and services for condominiums.
Some environmental solutions that promote sustainable behaviors are worthy
of highlight, such as equipment that promotes adherence to recycling systems
through a compactor machine that, for each aluminum or plastic package deposited, offers a ticket discount for purchases; equipment for public roads that
promote the consumption of tap water instead of bottled water, avoiding the
production of tons of waste plastic packaging.
The bioplastics industry also had a profuse representation, with a wide range
of solutions for packaging and transporting products, such as the reuse of used
tires to produce pavements.
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In the field of Refuse-derived fuel (RDF), two very interesting and innovative
should be highlighted, since they present viable solutions for two types of quite
common waste that are currently abundant - cigarette butts and used disposable diapers . Both projects, hosted by completely distinct entities, aimed at
raising awareness of the collection and recovery of this waste while RDF - due
to its high calorific value, to produce energy.
The success of Ecomondo is easily discernible, and relates to the merger of
commercial and cultural dimension to the technological, scientific and research dimension.
CURRENT EVENTS
A recent study concludes
that open dumps are increasing
D-WASTE
#waste #ewwr
Despite increasing efforts to raise
awareness for waste reduction, as
well as for the separation and selective disposal of waste, a recent study
reveals that open dumps are currently increasing.
Mbeubeuss, Senegal, is an open dump
spreading throughout 175 acres,
with towering mountains of waste
shrouded in smoke from several
fires, and its own small town of about
2,500 people, who live from separating, burning and recycling what they
can. Mbeubeuss is one of 50 giant
dumps identified in the new Atlas of
the largest dumps in the world, developed by D-Waste, a team of experts in the field of waste management. Mbeubeuss can be compared
with Agbogbloshie in Accra, Ghana,
which is one of the largest dumps in
Africa and receives 192.000 tons of
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electronic waste each year; Dandora, outside Nairobi, which covers 53
hectares and receives 730.000 tons
of industrial, hospital and domestic
waste per year; and the huge Bantar
Gebang village in Bekasi, Indonesia,
with 230 thousand tons. The most
significant of all dumps may be Deonar, outside of Mumbai, India, which
opened in 1927. It is believed to have
received about 17 million tons of
waste and now has 5 million people
living within it.
Despite their differences, all these
places have two things in common:
they represent a serious threat to
human health, and are located within or close to fast-growing cities in
poor or low-income countries. They
also cause serious environmental
problems relating to surface water,
groundwater and soil contamination
from potentially toxic elements; air
pollution resulting from the burning
material to the surface and underground fires fueled by landfill gas.
Antonis Mavropoulos, one of the authors of the map, emphasizes that
these sites are a challenge for the
international community, since they
are located in countries that generally lack the financial and human
resources to correctly manage the
problem.
D-WASTE
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Goodyear uses waste from
rice harvest to fabricate
efficient tires
Goodyear
#ewwr #goodpratices
Residues from rice husk, previously sent to landfill, are now helping
Goodyear to produce efficient tires.
Goodyear will use ash left over from
the burning of rice husks to produce
electricity as an environmentally
friendly source of silica for use in its
tires.
Joseph Zekoski, technical director
of Goodyear, stresses that the use of
rice husk ash will provide Goodyear
with an alternative source of silica,
while reducing the amount of rice
husk sent to landfill.
More than 700 million tons of rice
are harvested annually worldwide,
and the elimination of rice husk is
an environmental challenge. As a
result, the rice husk is often burned
to produce electricity and reduce the
amount of waste sent to landfill. The
silica is mixed with rubber in the tire
tracks to increase the strength of
rubber and help reduce rolling resistance and therefore improve fuel
efficiency. Their use may also have
a positive impact on tire traction on
wet roads.
Goodyear
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Fusions project - for the
reduction of food waste in
Europe
WRAP
#avoidfoodwaste
Fusions (Food Use for Social Innovation by Optimising Waste Prevention
Strategies) is a new project that focuses on working towards achieving
a Europe with greater resource efficiency, by significantly reducing food
waste.
The project, to be developed by
2016, has 21 partners from 13 different countries, including universities, knowledge institutes, consumer
and business organizations. Through
a multilateral European platform,
the project aims to create a shared
vision and a strategy to avoid food
loss and waste throughout the supply chain through social innovation.
Social innovations are new ideas
(products, services and models) that
at the same time meet the social
needs (more effectively than alter-
natives) and create new social relationships or collaborations. Over 80
leading European organizations have
pledged their support to the project
Fusions. The project will help to harmonize the monitoring of food waste;
improve understanding of the extent
to which social innovation can reduce
food waste; and develop guidelines
for a policy of wastage of food common to the EU-27. Through delivery
of the key objectives, FUSIONS will
support the delivery of a Roadmap
towards a Resource Efficient Europe;
the European Commission’s target of
a 50% reduction of food waste; and a
20% reduction in the food chain’s resource inputs by 2020.
WRAP
Governments, companies,
civil society and indigenous
leaders commit to halt the
loss of forest area
UNEP
An innovative public-private partnership of multinationals, governments,
civil society and indigenous peoples
pledged to reduce forest loss by 50%
by 2020, and end it a decade later in
2030. This will eliminate the annual emission of between 4.5 and 8.8
billion tonnes of CO2 - it’s a gesture
equivalent to removing the carbon
emissions produced by the billions of
cars that are currently on the roads
of the world.
At the Climate Summit held in September, the New York Declaration on
Forests was adopted by developed
and developing countries of the world
- including the United States, the European Union, and a large number of
countries with tropical forests - as
well as by multinationals of the food,
paper, finance and other industries,
civil society and indigenous peoples,
from Peru to Nepal. For the first time,
155 of these world leaders agreed
on a date to end deforestation, and
the need for economic incentives to
countries that reduce the loss of their
forests. Cutting trees is a source of
CO2 emissions and contributes sig-
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nificantly to climate change, since
the trees, that store carbon, eventually release it when burnt during the
destruction of forest areas.
The Declaration aims to change politics going into next year’s Paris climate talks and accelerate action by
companies to eliminate deforestation
from their supply chains. The Declaration also calls for the restoration
of more than 350 million hectares of
forest and farmland, an area larger
than the size of India, which would
have significant climate benefits.
environmental and energy sectors
and thus offers an optimal platform
for presenting the corresponding
technologies and services. The high
quality of the information and contacts offered by these trade fairs is
reinforced by the specialized program of supporting events presented
by prominent organizers and international cooperation exchanges and
forums within the framework of the
exhibition.
TerraTec
UNEP
UNEP challenges students
to reduce food waste
New edition of TerraTec at
Leipzig
UNEP
TerraTec
Students around the world are
preparing to compete for several
prizes, now that the Environment
Programme of the United Nations
(UNEP) launched the Think.Eat.Save
Student Challenge initiative.
The Think.Eat.Save Student Challenge aims to encourage students
from around the world, from high
schools and universities, to discover
and understand - through the development and implementation of
practical projects - the amount of
food waste produced, and the impact
it has on the environment and the
economy. The competition aims to
TerraTec is the only international
trade fair in Germany, focused on all
aspects of environmental technologies and services, to take place in
2015. The event will offer outstanding solutions for the future of water, raw materials and management
of closed loop recycling, as well as
solutions relevant to climate change
adaptation. The close connection between the TerraTec and the enertec
– International Trade Fair for the
Generation, Distribution and Storage of Energy – mirrors the complex
interrelations existing between the
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#avoidfoodwaste #thinkeatsave
sensitize students to the subject of
food waste, with the overall goal of
training the next generation to think
and act differently, to overcome the
growing problem of food waste. Lucita Jasmin, manager of the Think.
Eat.Save campaign, underlines that
through the students, they hope to
encourage a more conscious attitude towards the planning of meals,
preparation, storage and consumption in schools, while attempting to
highlight the inherent value of food.
Students are also an effective entry
point for their families and households, which are another major
source of food waste and where there
is great potential for positive change.
UNEP
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New app to help reduce food
waste
oping countries, where most people
are supported directly by land, seas
and oceans. He adds that FAO and
UNEP bring different and complementary sets of skills to the partnership, which will make the work on the
restoration and sustainable management of ecosystems for improving
food security is most effective.
The memorandum formalizes cooperation between the two agencies, in
the context of an agenda post-2015
development, including the Sustainable Development Goals, particularly
with regard to food security and ecosystem services.
Love Food Hate Waste
Think. Eat. Save.
“DID YOU KNOW THAT…
#avoidfoodwaste
It is estimated that each year, 89 million tons
of food are wasted in the European Union. It is
expected that this number rises to about 126
million tonnes by 2020, if no action is taken.
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#avoidfoodwaste
The Love Food Hate Waste initiative
was created in order to raise awareness for the importance of reducing
food waste. In light of this initiative,
a new mobile application was created, one that allows the user to easily
keep track of food planning, shopping, cooking meals and making the
most of leftovers. The Love Food
Hate Waste app also has several recipe ideas and tips on using leftovers
and forgotten foods to create satisfying meals. Free to download and use,
the application aims to make everyone reduce food waste, saving money as well as the environment.
Love Food Hate Waste
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UN agencies together for the
sake of food security
Think. Eat. Save.
#avoidfoodwaste #thinkeatsave
In September, the United Nations
Environment Programme (UNEP)
and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) that is set to ensure
better support for the functioning of
critical ecosystem services that underlie food security. Achim Steiner,
UNEP Executive Director and UN Under-Secretary-General stresses that
healthy ecosystems are the lifeblood
of food security, especially in devel-
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Green Paper on a European
Strategy on Plastic Waste in
the Environment
Plastic is a relatively inexpensive
and versatile material with many
industrial applications, which led to
its exponential growth over the last
century, creating unique challenges
in terms of waste management.
The aim of the Green Paper is to promote deep reflection and debate on
the strategy on plastic waste, contributing to reassess of the risks of
plastics to the environment and to
human health when they become
waste, taking into account their correct functional design and chemistry, from an environmental point of
view. On the other hand, it intends to
launch a reflection on the problems
of uncontrolled disposal of plastic
waste and marine debris and also
contribute to consider the inclusion
of impacts throughout the life cycle
in the cost of plastic products, from
extraction of raw materials to end of
life phase.
European Commision
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