The European Week for Waste Reduction (EWWR) team has, since 2009, been promoting concrete actions and behaviours that contribute to reducing our environmental impact. For this webinar, we have teamed up with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to talk about strategies and techniques that work when communicating about sustainable lifestyles.

Garrette Clark, Sustainable Lifestyles Programme Officer, Consumption and Production Unit at UNEP, talked about the “Anatomy of Action”, a toolkit that encourages people to contribute to SDG 12 – responsible production and consumption. The initiative suggests core actions that can be undertaken in food, mobility, leisure (consumer goods and tourism) and housing. The Anatomy of Action’s assets and videos are designed for individuals and organisations educating on sustainable living, and anyone can start their own “Take Action Challenge” based on these tools at any time. And what better time to take action than during the European Week for Waste Reduction?

The webinar was also an occasion to discuss about the relevance of sustainability in the time of Covid-19 and to exchange views about the way forward.

Presentations

• The Anatomy of Action – Garrette Clark, Sustainable Lifestyles Programme Officer at UNEP
• The European Week for Waste Reduction – Carmen Valache-Altinel, Communications Officer at the EWWR Secretariat

Video recording

You can watch the video recording of this webinar here.

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This training session focused on tips about how to set up an EWWR campaign and was primarily targeted at EWWR coordinators. During it, Colette Caruana, EWWR coordinator for Malta, and Mireia Padros, EWWR coordinator for Catalonia, shared some of the knowledge they have acquired over the years about (1) how to spread the word about EWWR locally; (2) how to register actions with EWWR; (3) what kind of communications tools to use; and (4) ideas for actions. Additionally, the EWWR Secretariat presented the registration tool on the project website and the interface for coordinators.

Recording

Here you can listen to the recording of the training session.

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This training session focused on some of the winning awareness-raising actions of the 9th European Week for Waste Reduction (EWWR) Awards. Action Developers presented some of the best practices for waste prevention, reuse and recycling implemented during the EWWR 2017 across different categories. The presentations sought to give some insights into the participants’ involvement and show how each action was successfully implemented.

The presentations were followed by the opportunity to ask the Action Develops questions.

Presentations

Here you can download all the presentations made during the webinar as PDF files.

• Welcome and opening presentation from ACR+
• Public administration and organisation: La LouvièR³: zero waste objective, implemented by City of La Louvière (Wallonia, Belgium)
• Association/NGO: Jo Sóc COCO Campaign, implemented by REZERO (Catalonia, Spain)
• Educational Establishment: Designing orthopaedic and medical devices reusing materials, implemented by IES Comte de Rius (Catalonia, Spain)
• Citizen(s): Anti-Black Friday Gorilla Campaign, implemented by Conscious Cup Campaign (Ireland)
• European Special Prize: Coffee-to-go-nochemol, implemented by Eurodistrikt Strasbourg-Ortenau (France and Germany)
• Presentation of the Thematic Focus 2018: Hazardous Waste Prevention: Time to detox! by ACR+

Recording

Here you can watch the recording of the presentations.

• Association/NGO: Jo Sóc COCO Campaign, implemented by REZERO (Catalonia, Spain)
• Educational Establishment: Designing orthopaedic and medical devices reusing materials, implemented by IES Comte de Rius (Catalonia, Spain)
• Citizen(s): Anti-Black Friday Gorilla Campaign, implemented by Conscious Cup Campaign (Ireland)
• European Special Prize: Coffee-to-go-nochemol, implemented by Eurodistrikt Strasbourg-Ortenau (France and Germany)
• Presentation of the Thematic Focus 2018: Hazardous Waste Prevention: Time to detox! by ACR+

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This session focused on the winning awareness-raising actions of the 8th European Week for Waste Reduction (EWWR) Awards. Participants were presented in detail the best practices for waste prevention, reuse and recycling implemented during the EWWR 2016 in each of the Action Developer categories. The presentations will offer a detailed explanation of participants’ involvement and show how each action can be successfully implemented

Presentations

Welcome by the Catalan Waste Agency (ARC)

Please see below the presentations of the six actions, one in each of the Action Developer categories:

• Administration/Public Authority:Travel with Recycling, implemented by Ayuntamiento de Utebo, Spain, presented by
• Association/NGO: Zero Waste EWWR in Végegyháza, implemented by Barangoló Közhasznú Egyesület (Barangoló Public Association), Hungary!
• Business/Industry: Jo em comprometo! ( I commit myself !), implemented by Caprabo, Spain!
• Educational Establishment: Un jardin para todos (A garden for everyone), implemented by Ikastola Iparragirre, Spain!
• Citizen(s):The experiment Yellow bag and Round Table on Packaging Waste in Hildesheim, implemented by Evelyn Spillmann, Germany!
• Other: Systemic Food Design, implemented by University of Gastronomic Sciences, Italy!

Recordings

• Ignacio Laseo from Ayuntamiento de Utebo (ES) presenting Travel with recycling, the winner in the category of Administration/Public Authority;
• Andras Horvath from Barangoló Public Association (HU) presenting Zero Waste EWWR in Végegyháza, the winner in the category of Association/NGOs;
• Cristina Madrilley from Caprabo (ES) presenting Jo em comprometo!/I commit myself!, the winner in the category of Business/Industry;
• Gurutze Otzerin from Ikastola Iparragirre (ES) presenting Un jardin para todos/A garden for everyone, the winner in the category of Educational Establishment;
• Evelyn Spillmann from Hildesheim (DE) presenting The experiment “Yellow bag”, the winner in the category of Citizen(s);
• Nadia Tecco from the University of Gastronomic Sciences presenting Systemic Food Design, the winner in the category of Other.

Enjoy!

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This trainning session focused on the new Communication Tools done by the European Week for Waste Reduction (EWWR) Project.

These tools are esential because they offer help to all interested bodies in their quest to address target groups more specifically. The tools are used when organising and implementing waste prevention, reuse or recycle actions during the EWWR. Participants in this trainning session had the chance to learn in detail about these targeted communication toolkits implemented and promoted by EWWR partners for targeted groups such as schools, businesses, public authorities and so on.

This training was also a great opportunity to find out more about the European Week for Waste Reduction 2016 which will be held from 19 to 27 November! But more importantly about this edition’s Prevention Thematic Days which will have its focus on Packaging Waste!

In case you missed it please find below the presentations and recordings(soon) of the webinar.

Presentations

• Welcome by Catalan Waste Agency (ARC)

Presentation of target communication toolkits and promotion pilot tests

• Educational Establishment: Eszter Tanka, National Waste Directorate for Hungary (NWMD)
• Ecorestaurant, green commerce and ecotourism pilot test in Catalonia: Mireia Padrós, Catalan Waste Agency (ARC)
• Public Authority and Association/NGO: Eleonora Lano, AICA, International Association for Environmental Communication (Italy)
• Keep Clean and Run, Let’s Clean Up Europe practice: Eleonora Lano, AICA
• Campaign and resources for Prevention Thematic Days 2016: Packaging Waste: Maëva Voltz, Association of Cities and Regions for Recycling and Sustainable Resource Management (ACR+)

Discussion and conclusions. ARC

Promotional videos of Keep Clean and Run Campaign in Italy

• Keep Clean and Run – Pulisci e Corri 2016
• Keep Clean and Run – Pulisci e Corri 2015

Recordings

• Eszter Tanka – Education Establishment
• Mireia Padrós – Ecorestaurant, green commerce and ecotourism
• Eleonora Lano – Public Authority and Association/NGO
• Eleonora Lano – Keep Clean and Run (LCUE)
• Maëva Voltz – Packaging Waste Reduction

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This training session focused on some of the winning awareness-raising actions of the 7th European Week for Waste Reduction (EWWR) Awards. Participants learned in detail about the best practices for waste prevention, reuse and recycling implemented during the EWWR 2015 in each of the Action Developer categories, from the actual Action Developers! The presentations offered a detailed explanation of participants’ involvement and show how each action was and can be successfully implemented.

The session ended with a discussion and the conclusions.

Presentations

• Welcome by Catalan Waste Agency (ARC)

The presentation of the six actions, one for each action developer category:

• Educational Establishment: Do not throw away your future! – Pumukli (Pumuckl)German Nationality Kindergarten (Hungary). Eszter Tanka.
• Business: Mes déchets valent de l’Or (My waste is worth gold) – Village Partenaire(Brussels, Belgium) Catherine Alvis.
• Public Authority: A Tiana reduïm els residus (In Tiana we reduce waste)-Ajuntament de Tiana (Tiana, Catalonia) Olga Llobet.
• Association/NGO: SharingPlaces (LuogoComune) – Il Formicaio Aps (Lecce, Puglia) Umberto Cataldo.
• Citizens: Diversifying 2015 – Differenziamoci 2015– Nerina Palazzolo (Palermo, Sicily ) Eleonora Lano.
• Others: Waste Away – waste reduction week in Wedding (District of Berlin)Projecthouse baumhaus, intercultural community garden himmelbeet and transition town neightborhood initiative WeddingWandler– (Berlin, Germany).Anja Rillcke.

• Discussion and conclusions

Recordings

• Eszter Tanka – Do not throw away your future!
• Catherine Alvis – My waste is worth gold!
• Olga Llobet – In Tiana we reduce waste!
• Mireia Padros – Il Formicaio Aps!
• Eleonora Lano – Diversifying 2015!
• Anja Rillcke – Waste Away!

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This training session focused on some of the winning awareness-raising actions of the 6th European Week for Waste Reduction (EWWR) Awards. Participants can learn in detail about the best practices for waste prevention, reuse and recycling implemented during the EWWR 2014 in each of the Action Developer categories. The presentations will offer a detailed explanation of participants’ involvement and show how each action can be successfully implemented.

The session will end with a short introduction to the focus of the European Week for Waste Reduction 2015 (from 21 to 29 November) and its focus on Dematerialization in the scope of the Prevention Thematic Days 2015.

Presentations

• Mireia Padros, ARC: Welcome
• Olivier Neufkens, foodwe: winner category association/NGO
• Anna Kiss, Treasure Hunter Primary School: winner category educational establishment
• Barbara Gehin/François Pfalzgraf, Prison of Strasbourg: winner category public authority/administration
• Yacine Canamas: winner category citizen
• Jordi Pujadas, Germans Trias i Pujol Hospital: winner category other
• Lisa Labriga, ACR+: Prevention Thematic Days 2015. Dematerialisation – Doing more with less!

Recordings

• Olivier Neufkens, foodwe: winner category association/NGO
• Anna Kiss, Treasure Hunter Primary School: winner category educational establishment
• Barbara Gehin/François Pfalzgraf, Prison of Strasbourg: winner category public authority/administration
• Yacine Canamas: winner category citizen
• Jordi Pujadas, Germans Trias i Pujol Hospital: winner category other
• Lisa Labriga, ACR+: Prevention Thematic Days 2015. Dematerialisation – Doing more with less!

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This training session, addressing Coordinators, focused on methodology, evaluation procedure and updated communication tools of the second Let’s Clean Up Europe event. Surfrider Foundation Europe shared its experience of 20 years about how to best organise clean-up actions on the ground, giving a particular insight on beach clean-ups.

In addition to this, participants shared their expertise in attracting sponsors and cooperate better with local institutions to successfully implement Let’s Clean Up Europe.

Presentations

• Lisa Labriga, ACR+: EWWR as umbrella project: 2014 edition results
• Emanuele Biestro, International Association for Environmental Communication: Main tools of Let’s Clean Up Europe
• Aines Arizmendi, Surfrider Foundation Europe: How to organise clean-up actions on a territory – 20 years of Ocean Initiatives

Recording

• Pilar Chiva, Catalan Waste Agency: Introduction
• Lisa Labriga, ACR+: EWWR as umbrella project: 2014 edition results
• Emanuele Biestro, International Association for Environmental Communication: Main tools of Let’s Clean Up Europe
• Aines Arizmendi, Surfrider Foundation Europe: How to organise clean-up actions on a territory – 20 years of Ocean Initiatives
• Roundtable

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This training session, addressing Coordinators focused on the EWWR website as well as on the online registration tool and its usage. It was explained in detail where one can find all the information on the website and how the tool works. All new documents and tools available online were also presented.

In addition to this, all participants had the change to have all their open questions regarding the registration process and the handling of the tool addressed. This will also help coordinators to guide Action Developers through the registration process.

Presentations

• Mireia Padros, ARC: Welcome
• Lisa Labriga, ACR+: The EWWR website & the online registration tool

Recording

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The session ended with a short introduction to the focus of the European Week for Waste Reduction 2014 (from 22 to 30 November) and its focus on Food Waste Prevention in the scope of the Prevention Thematic Days 2014.

Presentations

1. Mireia Padros, ARC: Welcome
2. Cédric Zeegers, Municipality of Ixelles: RecupDay
3. Marion Bourrelly, Ecoscience Provence: Travelling market eco-management action
4. May Lopez, SEUR: External Communication Campaign
5. Jordi Boadas, Vic Network of Schools for Sustainability (XESVIC): 4th Vic School Exchange Market
6. Andrea Magalhães, José Marmelo e Silva Municipal Library: Grandma’s bread bag
7. Philippe Micheaux Naudet, ACR+: Prevention Thematic Days 2014: Stop Food Waste!

Recordings

1. Mireia Padros, ARC: Welcome
2. Cédric Zeegers, Municipality of Ixelles: RecupDay
3. Marion Bourrelly, Ecoscience Provence: Travelling market eco-management action
4. May Lopez, SEUR: External Communication Campaign
5. Jordi Boadas, Vic Network of Schools for Sustainability (XESVIC): 4th Vic School Exchange Market
6. Andrea Magalhães, José Marmelo e Silva Municipal Library: Grandma’s bread bag
7. Philippe Micheaux Naudet, ACR+: Prevention Thematic Days 2014: Stop Food Waste!

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