What are Latvia’s sports stars doing in the waste management sector? Ozolins, Ostapenko and Grazulis join forces to tackle Latvia’s waste challenge
In Latvia, the issue of waste has long gone beyond containers and sorting rules — it is fundamentally about habits that fail to change. This is precisely why those least [..]
Tallinn joins the movement toward Zero Waste cities
The City of Tallinn has submitted its application to become a Zero Waste Candidate City under the Mission Zero Academy (MiZA) certification scheme, makingi it the first Estonian city to [..]
Lithuania’s Eco Baltia is the largest environmental management and recycling company in the Baltic States, and it is managed by the INVL Baltic Sea Growth Fund. The company has announced [..]
Argo Luude is CEO of the Estonian waste management company AS Eesti Keskkonnateenused, and he says that it is increasingly clear that the country’s government is planning a major change [..]
Survey shows Tallinn residents moving towards circular economy by sorting waste
The results of the Tallinn Strategic Management Office’s survey “Green City and Circular Economy” show a significant increase in the sorting of waste at home, at the workplace and in [..]
Tallinn’s city government wants to replace the 30-year-old, pole-mounted trash bins with advertising spaces in public places with modern ones, which will cost the city a hefty amount, Postimees reports. [..]
Big Cleanup in Riga will take place in more than 750 locations
This year’s Big Cleanup in Riga will take place in more than 750 locations, the annual campaign’s spokeswoman Anna Blaua told LETA. One of the central cleanup sites in Riga [..]
While one of Estonia’s largest waste management companies, Eesti Keskkonnateenused, has been critical of the proposed waste reform, their competitor Ragn-Sells is not, affirming that the goal of the reform [..]
11% of Latvians do not sort household waste – survey
In Latvia, 11 percent of residents do not sort their household waste, a ZAAO/Norstat Latvija survey shows. The survey reveals that 6 percent of people sort waste only partly, 27 [..]
Getlini Eko turnover down 3.3% in January-September
Getlini Eko, the operator of Getlini landfill, turned over EUR 36.602 million in January-September, which is 3.3 percent less than in the same period last year, while the company’s profit [..]
Estonia: Record 261 mln deposit packages collected so far this year
In the first three quarters of 2023, the deposit package recycling company Eesti Pandipakend collected and directed to recycling 261 million single-use deposit packages — this is more than ever [..]
SEI: Estonia lacks capacity to recycle textile waste
According to the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), Estonia lacks the capacity to recycle textile waste and the corresponding technological solutions. About 16,000 tons of new clothes and home textiles are [..]
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