Welcome to Regions for Recycling
Regions for Recycling (R4R) is a 3-year European project (2012-2014) aiming to enable its partners to improve their recycling performance through consistent comparisons and an exchange of good practices.
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42% of treated municipal waste recycled or composted in 2012
In the EU28, 492 kg of municipal waste was generated per person in 2012,
while 480 kg of municipal waste was treated per person. This municipal
waste was treated in different ways: 34% was landfilled, 24%
incinerated, 27% recycled and 15% composted.
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R4R conference "A regional contribution to the European recycling society", 17 September 2014, Brussels
Organised in the framework of the R4R project (Regions for Recycling), the conference will aim to provide a contribution to the debate on the review of waste management targets set by the Waste Framework Directive.
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R4R training in Graz as a Green Week Satellite event
The 2014 edition of Green Week, the biggest annual conference on European environment policy, will take place from 3 to 5 June.
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ACR+ report: "Management options for 6 composting strategies"
This
report aims to highlight the different possible composting strategies
that can be considered by local authorities and other public/private
stakeholders dealing with bio-waste.
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R4R partners compare their performances - key findings
In order to build up a common methodology on data comparison, R4R partners shared their respective data of 2010 regarding different waste fractions, highlighting differences in recycling performances..
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