From the Blue Community Manica Youth Assembly – MAYA, Zimbabwe:
Last week was truly one for the books, exciting, impactful, and inspiring. We did what we do best: showing up for ... Read More
From Willy Kwizera, journalist at the Blue Community Radio Bonesha FM, Burundi: Bujumbura:
School and ecology: The plastic pollution emergency.
In Burundi’s Bujumbura, students are raising the ... Read More
#WorldRefillDay2026: Why Refilling Matters for Water Justice and the Blue Community Movement
By Roland Brunner, coordinator Blue Community Network.
Every year on 16 June, people, organisations, busine... Read More
How the plastic bottle cap became a parable for the value of EU regulation.
Supporters of deregulation want Europe to be more like the US. But that would serve only American interests.
In July 2024,... Read More
The Plastic Waste Crisis Isn’t an Accident—Big Oil Created It.
To protect their markets, the petrochemical companies began a decades-long, coordinated effort to sell the public on plastic recycling—de... Read More
Bottled Convenience, Unbottled Waste: The Hidden Environmental Cost of Kenya’s Mineral Water Economy.
By Eric Guantai.
Kenya’s bottled water industry has experienced rapid growth over the past decad... Read More
Ibiza is drowning in plastic due to bottled water consumption: 480 tons per year.
The Water Alliance is promoting the second edition of an initiative to combat distrust of tap water.
The Water Allian... Read More
Well done Tofino B.C. 👏 It became the first municipality in Canada to officially ban the retail sale of single-use plastic water bottles (1 litre and under). Tofino is the “test case”; do ... Read More
The Zero Waste Forum 2026 will be held from 5–7 June 2026 in Istanbul, Türkiye, in collaboration with the Ministry of Environment, Urbanisation and Climate Change, United Nations partners, and a broad... Read More
