EU Green Week 2018

The rules, which will make Europe's waste management system the most advanced in the world, set targets for 55% of all municipal waste to be recycled by 2025, 60% by 2030 and 65% by 2035. Another target is to ensure that only 10% or less of municipal waste reaches landfill by 2035. Separate collection of bio-waste will become obligatory by 2023. The rules will help cities to cut waste, boost recycling and trigger new ideas for reusing items – making them the champions of the circular economy.
EU Green Week 2018 is the occasion to discover how to make that change happen.
Through events across Europe, and a major policy conference in Brussels, EU Green Week will showcase how the EU is working for cities and citizens. The week will officially open on 21 May in Utrecht (The Netherlands) and will close on 25 May in Madrid (Spain). The high level EU Green Cities Summit will take place in Brussels, from 22 to 24 May.
One focus of the discussions will be on how EU rules on waste, water and air can be more effectively applied, e.g. through the EU Urban Agenda. Some of the partnerships under the Urban Agenda such as the Circular Economy, Urban Mobility, and Air Quality specifically deal with environmental issues. How to put sustainability at the heart of cities' planning processes will be another focus of the dozens of thematic sessions.
Many citizens are joining the movement towards more sustainable cities. At local level, actions inspired by the circular economy concept are gaining traction, with repair cafés opening, more and more initiatives to substitute plastic, and increased urban gardening.