“Zero Waste Apeldoorn”

Carla Fransen

Projectmanager, Municipality of Apeldoorn (NL)

C.Fransen@apeldoorn.nl

3 November 2021European Week for Waste Reduction

About Zero Waste Apeldoorn

• A local citizens’ initiative working together with Zero Waste the Netherlands
• Goal is to prevent or reduce waste
• What they do:
• Active Facebook group for tips, tricks & ideas (almost 1.000 members). Also Instagram (620), LinkedIn (216), Twitter (211) and a website
• Promote local shops/companies where you can buy your groceries packaging-free
• Litter clean-ups (about 250 active members)
• Workshops for making your own deo or soap
• And recently a whole Zero Waste week together with partners such as the thrift shop and museum

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Zero Waste week Apeldoorn ‘21

• 18 Sep: Litter cleanup (World Cleanup Day) stimulating active civic participation, workshops, lecture Plastic Soup Surfer & the Zwerfinator during a litter pickers gathering
• 19 Sep: Focus on education and information with lectures from 2 Zero Waste pioneers in the Netherlands, Zero waste picknick and sustainable market
• 20 Sep: Company Day, open doors and guided tours with focus on sustainable innovations & technology
• 21 Sep: Focus on circularity, secondhand, re-use and the sharing economy, including release of new routemaps to the various second-hand clothes stores and thrift stores, and the 70+ mini-libraries spread out in and around the municipality.
• 22 Sep: Active DO DAY, with a great range of workshops, focus on DYI, Make, Repair and Repair Cafe's. Later in the day: information evening on cloths nappies.
• 23 Sep: Focus on Zero waste groceries (package-free, local, organic) and on foodwaste prevention.
• 24 Sep: "Green Day", with focus on biodiversity, gardens, local Green Initiatives and Vegan Friday

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• Different promotion and discount actions during the week

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How can you/we activate civilians to make a difference to their environment?

https://www.interregeurope.eu/smartwaste/