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    PENNY launches case study: Turning surplus food into measurable social and environmental impact

    The case study covers the period January 1, 2024 – December 31, 2025 and has two components: "Greenhouse gas emissions avoided through the food donation program: GHG analysis (2024-2025)" and "Social value generated by the food donation program: Social Return on Investment (SROI) analysis...

    Bonapp: Romanians have saved over 14.5 million RON by rescuing 1.1 million food packages

    More than 1.1 million food packages have been saved from going to waste in Romania through Bonapp since the app was launched. These are products that are still perfectly good to eat but risk remaining unsold and ultimately being thrown away, including items approaching...

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    ECO Student roadshow mobilizes university campuses for Romania’s Deposit Return System

    ECO Student, a project initiated by the ECOTECA Association in partnership with ING Bank...

    Lidl Romania introduces Anti-Waste Bag to help reduce food waste

    Lidl Romania has launched the Anti-Waste Bag, a new initiative aimed at reducing food...

    Europe’s largest pilot project for beverage carton collection surpasses one million packages collected in Romania in under eight months

    Europe's first large-scale pilot project dedicated to the separate collection of beverage and dairy...

    CES Bucharest study: 8 out of 10 Romanians say they have easy access to facilities for separate waste collection

    Romanians are taking concrete steps toward sustainable behavior, and recycling is becoming an increasingly...

    🎙️Denise Deleanu, COO Reciclad’OR: Preparation creates competitive advantage

    In the new editorial series of interviews, Sustainability in Action – Leaders’ Innovation Impact,...

    Carrefour and Bonapp have saved more than 5 tonnes of food from waste. Partnership expands to four new cities.

    Bonapp and Carrefour are taking the fight against food waste beyond Bucharest. After saving...

    Sezamo collects 1.5 million packaging units and saves 11 tons of food in 2026

    Online supermarket Sezamo has collected 1.5 million packaging units through Romania’s Deposit Return System...

    Professional Recycle, a Romanian company based in Târgu Mureș, to operate Europe’s largest single-site PET recycling capacity in 2026

    Professional Recycle, a company from Târgu Mureș specializing in the recycling of PET packaging...

    ABB and Syre to explore technologies for industrial-scale textile recycling

    ABB has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Swedish textile impact company Syre...

    RetuRO: 667 million packaging items collected in the first two months of the year

    RetuRO, the administrator of Romania's Deposit-Return System—the country's largest circular economy project—announces the progress...

    Romania’s growing “Mountain of Clothes”: textile collection exists on paper, but reuse and recycling are rare

    Many local administrations in Romania risk fines from oversight authorities due to their inability...

    Auchan surpasses 1.7 million liters of used cooking oil collected, seven years after launching its recycling program

    Auchan România continues to expand one of the largest circular economy programs in Romanian...

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    Ionut Georgescu, FEPRA: “Romania’s textile EPR system could be in place by 2028 if legislation advances next year”

    Romania could have an Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) system for textiles in place by...

    Raul Pop, Ministry of Environment: “Romania needs stronger coordination to build a circular textiles system”

    Romania can draw important lessons from existing Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) schemes and from...

    Lidl donates over 3.2 million RON to equip 15 neonatal units across Romania

    To mark 15 years of activity in the local market, Lidl Romania is donating...

    PENNY launches case study: Turning surplus food into measurable social and environmental impact

    The case study covers the period January 1, 2024 – December 31, 2025 and...