European citizens want less waste, be it plastic or paper
On September 12th 2023, European citizens and organizations from all over the world joined hands to say we need to Make Throw Away Go Away.
From Spain to Poland to France, from Germany to Portugal to Sweden, from Indonesia to Italy, from Germany to Finland and the UK, the same message came through loud and strong: we need to get rid of the waste economy.
This does not mean shifting from one damaging material, plastic, to another, paper.
What it does mean is no single-use anything, whatever the material.
We demand the EU politicians to listen to their voices, not to the deafening clamor of lobbyists sponsored by the throw-away packaging industry.
Single use paper-based packaging destroys forests 
It leads for example to eucalyptus monoculture plantations and forest fires in Portugal and Brazil. It destroys tropical forests in Indonesia.
3 billion trees are cut down every year for paper based packaging. Should we be cutting down our last remaining forests for throwaway packaging?
Trees didn’t evolve to be trash. Cardboard boxes destroy forests.
Paper-based plates and and takeaway boxes destroy forests. Single-use crates used for transport destroy forests.
Paper-based trash is not beautiful. Like plastic, it’s waste, and it’s everywhere.
We need to shift to reuse systems!
Organisations and citizens took part all over Europe, and beyond.
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