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March 16, 2025

Drowning in Waste: How Reuse Can Save Us from Packaging Pollution

Every year, millions of tonnes of packaging waste are generated, with figures steadily rising. In 2018 alone, 174 kg of packaging waste was generated per person in Europe. The most recent data from 2019 reveals that paper and cardboard made up the largest share at 32.2 million tonnes, followed by plastic at 15.4 million tonnes […]
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Drowning in Waste: How Reuse Can Save Us from Packaging Pollution

Every year, millions of tonnes of packaging waste are generated, with figures steadily rising. In 2018 alone, 174 kg of packaging waste was generated per person in Europe. The most recent data from 2019 reveals that paper and cardboard made up the largest share at 32.2 million tonnes, followed by plastic at 15.4 million tonnes […]
Written by Bethany KeeleyMarch 16, 2025
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Webinar: A #WeChooseReuse discussion with Jean Bouteille Founder

There are lots of good environmental reasons for producing and consuming reuse products - e.g. from effectively preventing littering at source, to promoting sustainable consumption habits. Yet, their economic advantage has been more difficult to grasp at times, in a still largely unwelcoming context utterly dominated by single-use products.   ...

Estelle Eonnet
Packaging

Webinar: Towards safe and sustainable food contact materials in European healthcare

Register for the Food Contact Webinar on March 4th, organized by #breakfreefromplastic member Health Care Without Harm. Food contact materials (FCM) play an important role in food services in healthcare. They are used in a range of common catering products, including food and beverage containers and cutlery and help ensure...

Estelle Eonnet
Packaging

Case Study: The story of RePack

How do Zero Waste and online shopping work together?
RePack is a closed-loop system that can reduce e-commerce packaging by 96% while providing the same seamless consumer experience as with a disposable service.

Read the case study by Zero Waste Europe.

Estelle Eonnet
July 16, 2021

Meet a tip: tap, the non-profit campaigning for tap water in Germany

A tip: tap (a tip: tap water) is a non-profit association that campaigns for tap water, against packaging waste and thus for an ecologically sustainable lifestyle. We are campaigning for a water revolution, to make tap water the main beverage of our society. Since the 1970s, bottled water consumption in Germany has increased more than […]
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June 28, 2021

#WeChooseReuse to transition from a linear to a circular economy

Mother nature had it right. A balanced system and a healthy functioning world is one in which everything has a purpose and nothing goes to waste. Decay, in the natural world, is integral to renewal, unlocking nutrients that allow new life to thrive. It is a circular system that stands in sharp contrast to the […]
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June 20, 2021

#WeChooseReuse to combat climate change

Most people are aware that single-use plastics pile up as trash and pollute our planet, but what is less widely understood is that when it comes to plastics, harm is occuring long before our water bottles and cling film turn up in our oceans. Over 99% of plastics are produced from fossil fuels (mainly oil […]
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June 18, 2021

#WeChooseReuse as an opportunity for innovation

For too long, the idea of progress and development has existed in opposition to conservation and protection of the natural world, which were often seen as roadblocks to economically thriving societies. Our long-time measure of a nation’s prosperity and “standard of living”, GDP, fails to take into account our depreciating natural resources, not to mention […]
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June 17, 2021

14 Days of Action for Reuse Systems!

Across Europe, #BreakFreeFromPlastic members are calling for reuse systems to be put in place. The #WeChooseReuse 14 Days of Action in June, was an opportunity to make noise for reuse and have individuals ACT by signing the reuse commitment. Check out the #WeChooseReuse Toolkit shared with member organizations.
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