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Belgian cities are apparently shaping up when it comes to trash in the streets. Except Brussels.
Three charities that collect and recycle used clothes have teamed up for a campaign to stop people throwing everyday waste in their donation bins.
We're all encouraged to throw our garden waste in green bags to be recycled - but the 700,000 flowers that made up this weekend's Brussels flower carpet are heading straight to the incinerator.
Wallonia has announced a two-year experiment to encourage more people to recycle their aluminium cans - by paying them €0.05 per can.
Seaside restaurants and bars on the Belgian coast have pledged to limit their use of plastic straws, utensils and cups this summer in a new initiative announced by Belgium's minister for the North
More than 500kg of plastic that was thrown away during last year’s Tomorrowland music festival has been given a second life in the form of furniture.
McDonald's will remove plastic straws from six Brussels restaurants as part of a pilot programme following discussions with Brussels environment minister Céline Frémault.
Volunteers picked up more than 300,000 cigarette butts on Saturday from the streets of Brussels, Ostend, Antwerp, Namur and Liège.
Piles of bin bags outside every front door in Brussels on collection day could become a thing of the past, under a new proposal to make households put out their waste in plastic bins.
