RNB joins forces with other Belgian NGOs to launch the #EndDoublePackaging campaign to encourage consumers to report cases of overpackaging.
#EndDoublePackaging: Your pictures can end double packaging
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Waste and Pollution
Study: tackling litter mainly helps producers of single-use products
Full report (EN) Each region of Belgium has a different litter policy. Flanders has a -20% target for 2022 compared to 2015, which has not been achieved. In Wallonia and Brussels, agreements on litter are less clearly formulated and there is a lack...
Fost Plus is exaggerating: Belgian recycling figures are incorrect
Fost Plus has been publishing the most spectacular recycling figures for years. For some materials we even achieve more than 100%. How is it possible that we recycle more in Belgium than we consume?
Announcement of a Deposit in 2025: watch out for delaying manoeuvres
Environmental organisation Recycling Netwerk Benelux supports the Flemish government's intention to have a working deposit system in place, in consultation with the two other regions, by 2025. The plan is to introduce a deposit of 20 to 25...
The race towards Deposit Return Systems
Last modified: February 2024. More and more governments in Europe are deciding to introduce deposits on cans and plastic bottles. The pace has accelerated since the approval of the European directive on...
Yearly 98 mln kilos plastic, cardboard and paper through the front door
Unnoticed, however, they also receive a lot of paper and plastics through their regular letterbox mail. The annual quantity of plastic magazine wrappers is even twice the quantity that is received as parcels in plastic shipping bags. After all,...
Breaking news: Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Nestlé back deposit return on plastic bottles all over Europe
They do so through an opinion published on the Euractiv website today. “This is a historic breakthrough in the debate on deposit return systems,” environmental organization Recycling Netwerk Benelux says with delight. “NMWE and UNESDA believe that...
Deposit on plastic bottles excellent news for the environment
This entails a huge expansion of the current deposit return system in the Netherlands. "After decades of resistance by industry, this government’s decision is excellent news in the fight against plastic pollution”, director Rob Buurman of...