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Operation ‘Great Clean-Up’ took place this weekend on the plateau of the Hautes Fagnes.
While every municipality in Brussels has its waste issues, from illegal dumping to cigarette ends, Jette is tackling its problems with a unique poster campaign.
Restaurants, caterers and shops in Brussels have received subsidies to implement a zero-waste policy, particularly when it comes to take-away meals.
A study into Brussels expats' attitudes to recycling has found that more needs to be done to inform and encourage people to recycle their used batteries.
Some 25,000 Belgian firms still do not sort their plastic film, the country’s industrial packaging organisation Valipac has announced.
The intelligence and efficiency with which the rat population is at work on Avenue des Celtes (pictured) is downright disturbing to residents of the street, near Cinquantenaire.
Brussels environment minister Alain Maron (Ecolo) has announced that a new department is being put together to carry out pest control in the region.
Household rubbish collections will be disrupted on Thursday due to a strike by workers at Bruxelles Propreté, the SLFP trade union has announced.
A Brussels start-up that distributes unsold supermarket produce to the city's most vulnerable residents has raised €140,000 in just three weeks.
