Project good practices

The practice utilizes hair waste streams from hairdressers and citizens in the use of circular hair fibre mats to make the environment and waterways cleaner.

Citizens and consumers act as suppliers and take part in recycling textile material as bedsheets and closing the loop in the supply chain.

In honour of Lahti Green Capital 2021, every first grader in Lahti received a book that encourages literacy and daily environmentalism.

Located in the city of Zaragoza, "La Calle Indiscreta" offers environmental education activities related to daily urban life.

By-passers and residents are urged to litter picking in the sharing economy based and citizen-run practice of loaning litter picking sticks.

Camp2Camp upcycles and gives a second life to tents and other leftover camping equipment by collecting, repairing, reusing, and renting abandoned material.

Shareable Mechelen fosters a well-organised and socially engaged sharing economy in the city, on the basis of libraries for tools, laptops and plant seeds.

Flowerbed for kindergartens is an association that educates children in gardening and sustainable food systems.

Municipal housing in Lahti is renting a beehive, saving bees and supporting local biodiversity together with residents in a new urban experiment.

The campaign offers information and advice to the consumer on how to avoid food waste at home as well as in the product purchase process.