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Groups unite to call for Europe to cut its use of world’s land

18/03/2013

A coalition of groups [1], including Friends of the Earth, Birdlife, Biofuelwatch, Compassion in World Farming and European Environment Bureau has united to call for European governments, and the EU as a whole, to reduce Europe’s land footprint – the amount of land we use each year for food, textiles, wood, biofuels etc [2]. Research …

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Problems of Europe’s appetite for land

07/03/2013

Europe must urgently tackle its over-use of the world’s land, finds a new report from Friends of the Earth Europe, released today. [1] The report, ‘Hidden Impacts’, is based on newly available data and shed lights on Europe’s role as a major user of global land resources. Europe’s high consumption levels, and insatiable appetite for …

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Hidden impacts: How Europe’s resource overconsumption promotes global land conflicts

04/03/2013

Based on newly available data this report sheds lights on Europe’s role as a major user of global land resources. Europe’s high consumption levels, and insatiable appetite for meat, dairy, textiles and other products that require large areas of land, mean Europe’s ‘land footprint’ remains one of the largest in the world. The report finds …

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Aluminium, cotton and lithium needlessly wasted – new report

14/02/2013

Brussels, February 14, 2013 – Europe is failing to manage its resources sustainably, unnecessarily sending valuable materials to incineration and landfill, according to a report published today by Friends of the Earth Europe. [1] The European Union currently landfills and incinerates 60% of municipal waste. Valuable materials which could be recycled or re-used are being …

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Less is more: resource efficiency through waste collection, recycling and reuse

11/02/2013

The European Union currently landfills and incinerates 60% of municipal waste. Valuable materials which could be recycled or re-used are being thrown away as rubbish, contributing to demand for more raw materials. In the case of textiles, for example, Europeans discard 5.8 million tonnes every year, with 75% going to landfill or incineration and only …

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Reducing Europe’s land dependency and its impacts

06/12/2012

Europe’s land footprint is 640 million hectares a year – an area equivalent to 1.5 times the size of Europe itself. This is the land required to make everything that we consume, from food to material products to fuel. Friends of the Earth Europe’s conference addressed Europe’s land footprint, its causes, and solutions to the …

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