Food Connect is a European initiative aiming to tackle the food waste crisis in Southern EU countries by promoting sustainable practices in food production, distribution, and consumption. The project aims to upscale and enhance a LIFE-funded "Collaboration Network platform," making it more accessible and intelligent, while piloting its replication in Portugal, Malta, and Cyprus.
Tag: zero-waste
First steps taken to cut single-use plastics in Europe
The European Commission has taken a leap forward in tackling plastic pollution, with new laws to reduce throwaway single-use plastics. The proposal, which is designed to prevent and reduce the impact of certain plastic products on the environment, and in particular the marine environment, sets a number of different policy measures to tackle these problematic...
Zero Waste 2-day Workshop
We are organising a two day live-in activist camp/workshop from Saturday 24th to Sunday 25th of March at Xrobb l-Għaġin Nature Park. The scope of the event is to learn how to cut down on plastic use and waste-generation on a personal level and also how we can take action to move towards a zero-waste society....
The national waste dilemma
Għallis, the last remaining engineered landfill in Malta is now within a matter of months, not years, of reaching its capacity; there will be nowhere to dump our municipal waste. This does not come as a surprise – Friends of the Earth Malta has been warning that landfills are ultimately a temporary solution to the...