Isabella Kossina, Vienna Executive City Councilor for the Environment :

“With our support of mobilkom austria’s used mobile phone collection project, we’ve reached one of the goals of our waste avoidance INTIATIVE ‘Abfallvermeidung’:

the number of used mobile phones in Vienna was reduced in an environmentally sound manner.

Examples include renting machines that are rarely used instead of purchasing, repairing the defective dishwasher rather than buying a new one, or acquiring refurbished furniture or computers instead of buying them new.

The background paper ( in German ) titled Abfallverbrennung ist kein Gegner der Abfallvermeidung [ Waste incineration and waste prevention not a contradiction in terms ] takes stock of the current situation and argues 10 standpoints.

27 / 2014

The aim of the UBA’s specialist conference on waste avoidance (Wider die Verschwendung – konkrete Schritte zur Abfallvermeidung) in Berlin is to enable a detailed exchange between different groups of stakeholders on the topic of waste avoidance.

The conference will address current issues and the reduction of waste in product design in particular.