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Temperatures are slowly dropping across much of Europe. So to warm you up a little this month’ we’re taking you to the south of Italy to showcase our latest case study where the Sicilian municipality of Calatafimi Segesta.

Moreover, you can now access some of our most comprehensive training materials in Spanish, and you can check out the latest results of our pioneering RSVP project working with 6 of Europe’s biggest cities to implement systems for reusable takeaway packaging.

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The story of Calatafimi Segesta in Italy

The Sicilian municipality of Calatafimi Segesta may be small, but it provides one of Europe’s leading examples of how an island municipality can implement an effective zero waste strategy, whilst also focusing on improving the lives of the local community.

Despite receiving high-levels of tourism each year and having a dense, historic area in its centre, Calatafimi Segesta still achieved a 85% separate collection rate and generated just 88kgs of residual waste per person in 2022.

Read the case study, available in English and Italian.

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The collaborative work of the pan-European ReuSe Vanguard Project (RSVP) has resulted in a brand new publication - the Blueprint for harmonising how takeaway food and drinks packaging systems for reuse should be implemented across cities in Europe.

Our Zero Waste Training Handbook is now available in Spanish, as well as English and French. The comprehensive guide is aimed at empowering change agents to increase the impact of their work on zero waste at the local level.

The Zero Waste Certified City of Kiel is the main feature of a recent article in The Guardian looking at recycling and the risks of focusing only on this method of waste management.

Zero Waste Europe gratefully acknowledges financial assistance from the European Union: Commission Directorate General (DG) Environment. The sole responsibility for the content of this newsletter lies with Zero Waste Europe. It does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the funder mentioned above. The funder cannot be held responsible for any use that may be made of the information contained therein.

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