"Roll with us in the circle..."
Waste Prevention Week is an initiative to promote at European level the implementation of public awareness actions on sustainable resource use and waste management (reduction, reuse, recycling), culminating in the penultimate week of November.
For 2022, the week 19 November - 27 November 2022 has been set for the theme "Circular and Sustainable Textiles" with the slogan "Waste is out of fashion! (Waste is out of fashion!". In the framework of this week, more than 16 thousand actions are expected to be implemented this year at European level from 30 countries, five of them in Cyprus, with the Department of Environment as national coordinator.
These actions were published on the online platform www.ewwr.eu which has been created for this purpose and functions as a means of recording, managing and promoting the actions, promoting available educational tools, etc.
Specifically for Cyprus, the following actions were recorded:
1. Three (3) actions by the Department of Environment:
- Informative Workshop entitled "Roll with us in the circle..." with a parallel exhibition promoting actions by various organizations and businesses
- "End of disposable plastic cups"
- "Cooking and not throwing away"
2. One (1) action " share-borrow-exchange: change!" by the Cycloikodromiodew
3. One (1) action "disposable plastics in the tourism industry" by the initiative Keep our Sand and Sea Plastic Free
In view of the above, the Environment Department held on Monday, 21 November 2022, an information and awareness-raising workshop for businesses and the public entitled "Roll with us in the circle...", in the context of the circular economy and rational waste management.
The Director General of the Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development and Environment Mr. Andreas Grigoriou and the Director of the Department of Environment Dr. Kostas Hadjipanagiotou addressed the event.
The workshop presented actions related to the circular economy, the circularity of textiles, the reduction of food waste, zero waste cities, as well as related good practices.
Specifically, the state policies and actions of the competitive co-funded projects Life IP CYzero WASTE and LIFE Food Print, related to waste prevention and management in the context of the circular economy, as well as actions and good practices implemented by various organisations and businesses, were presented.
The results of the Life Food Print project, coordinated by Dias Publishing House and partnered by the Department of Environment, were presented, which aim to raise public and business awareness.
Specifically, the following were presented:
[*]The Life FoodPrint [*]The LIFE IP Cyzero WASTE project [*]The Quasimodo project of Amalthia Trading [*]The Zero Waste Cities program Friends of the Earth [*]The program of Cycloikodromio [*]The project of Nicosia Dog shelter [*]The work of Fashion Revolution Cyprus [*]The actions of the Technical and Vocational School of Education and Training Makarios C' [*]The actions of the Center for Social Innovation [*]The actions of the organization RETO
During the workshop and alongside the exhibition, a collection of clothes, toys and books with the possibility of exchange took place, as there were special bins for the collection of small electrical and electronic devices and batteries from the WEEE Cyprus and AFES Cyprus systems.
The event was presented live via live link from Radio Proto.
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