Bulgarian Recycling Association (BAR) is a partner of the Finnish municipality of Kouvola in the “Circular Public Procurement” project under the INTERREG Europe Programme. The project is worth: 2,208,675.00 euros. It consists of two Phases with a total duration of…
Halloween is all about dressing up, having fun and candy – lots of candy. But Halloween presents a scary reality for recycling facilities because of the huge amount of waste that’s produced and often wrongly placed in recycling bins. About…
Some interesting and unexpected facts. While scientists around the world are confined to their homes during the COVID-19 pandemic, Earth observing satellites continue to orbit and send back images that reveal connections between the pandemic and the environment. “Satellites collect…
Bulgarian Association of Recycling, CircPro’s Bulgarian partner, hosted on the 18th and 19th of February 2020, in Sofia, a 2-day event that gathered multiple partners and stakeholders. “Good practices and challenges in recycling – WEEE and other materials” roundtable took…
International E-Waste Day has been developed by the WEEE Forum, an international association of e-waste collection organisations. The Day seeks to encourage users to consider repairing their appliances or correctly disposing of them with the resulting increase in re-use, recovery…
A MUM who put her recycling out in the wrong colour bags was arrested by police, a court heard. Lyndsey Webb, 34, was ordered to pay £50 after falling foul of changes to the bin collection system in her area…
Our Spanish partner, Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Sustainable Development – Regional Government of Andalusia, hosted the 2-day event that gathered multiple partners, stakeholders and high-level speakers. Welcoming words for the first day were given by Francisco José Gutiérrez…
Roundtable “Circular Economy – implementation in the recycling sector” brought together companies from the industry, experts and representatives of the EC, EP, NA and MOEW. Crimes related to ferrous and non-ferrous metals have fallen as much as 5 times in…
On 14 June 2018. In the Official Journal of the European Union was published legislative package for the waste of the EU; it was officially approved on 18 April by the European Parliament. This reviews the Framework Directive on Waste,…
In the month of January, the European Commission presented its vision for the future of the plastic by calling Europe to transform the waste into an economic opportunity. According to the new strategy, all plastic packagings are to be recycled…