Author: Ingrid Bouchez
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Valipac aims to encourage more SMEs to sustainably manage commercial packaging waste with new incentives
Valipac, which coordinates the collection and recycling of commercial and industrial packaging waste, is launching a new incentive system targeting SMEs and smaller organisations. With targeted incentives, Valipac wants to motivate this target group to sort and sustainably recycle their commercial and industrial packaging waste. After all, there is still an important potential of companies…
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Villa Pila 2.0, a unique experience to raise awareness about battery recycling
Did you know that the average household has over 130 batteries? Or that it takes 256 used batteries to make a new smartphone? These fascinating facts are shared with thousands of children every year during their visit to Villa Pila 2.0, an interactive and state-of-the-art educational experience unlike any other! Recently, the students of Saint-Jean-Geest…
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A toy chicken, Céline Dion and the blue bag
Fost Plus launched a new campaign focusing on better sorting this autumn. After all, without sorting it is not possible to recycle. The campaign puts things in order about what can and cannot go in the blue bag. The aim is to refocus the sorting message for PMD. This is necessary, because Fost Plus is…
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Thirty years of the blue bag: comfort for citizens as a priority
The first blue bags appeared on the streets of Belgium in 1994. Thirty years later, they are more relevant than ever before. Moreover, the daily sorting efforts put in by every citizen form the foundation of a successful circular economy. In 2023 Fost Plus collected 24,4 kg of PMD per person. That is an increase…