EuroCities joins Close The Glass Loop platform
EuroCities, representing governing bodies of more than 140 of Europe's largest cities and over 45 partner cities at the European level, has joined ‘Close the Glass Loop’, the multi-stakeholder circular economy partnership for glass packaging.
Close The Glass Loop is currently composed of FEVE, FERVER, EXPRA, UNESDA and Municipal Waste Europe. EuroCities and Close the Glass Loop will work together to improve post-consumer glass packaging collection and recycling in urban areas.
“With more than 70% of European people now living in urban areas, city authorities play a key role in the collection of used glass to be recycled back into new glass packaging” comments Anna Lisa Boni, Secretary-General of EuroCities. “Our ambition is to transform cities into authentic circular economies and the endless recycling assets of glass packaging can help. Close the Glass Loop objectives perfectly chime with the European Green Deal objectives that we are strongly engaged in and where the transition toward a EU circular economy, thanks to the Circular Economy Action Plan, is one of the flagship initiatives.”
Besides investing in high quality and resource-efficient separate collection and public waste management systems, EuroCities also aims to engage with all stakeholders on the development of holistic policies and measures within a city and in the network with the other cities, as well as at empowering citizens to play an active role in this transition.
