Four bills on waste management have arrived in the Senate for consideration. This should finally bring to a close one phase of our work in the Association, when we have been pushing elements of the circular economy into the laws and trying to speed up the process of limiting landfilling and its disadvantage compared to recycling as much as possible. We are already working on the next phase. In September, at a meeting of the members of the [...]
Wednesday, 11 January 2017 - From the beginning, the Czech Association of Circular Economy (ČAObH) has been unequivocally supporting the draft Waste Act from the Ministry of the Environment, which is to be discussed by the Legislative Council of the Government, and efforts to reduce the amount of waste disposed of in landfills in general. It believes that the law is a necessary step to stop wasting [...]
Thursday, 3 November 2016 - The Czech Association of Circular Economy (CCAObH) unequivocally welcomes efforts to reduce the amount of waste disposed of in landfills. Draft Decree 294/2005 Coll., on the conditions for landfilling, correctly prohibits the landfilling of waste with potential for material recovery, recycling or energy recovery. In other words, the decree clearly defines which waste must not be landfilled. [...]
Monday, 31 October 2016 - The Czech Association of Circular Economy (CCAA) welcomes efforts to improve the primary separation of municipal waste. Primary separation means sorting into yellow (plastics), green (glass), blue (paper), brown (bio-waste) or possibly differently coloured containers. It is here that the CABH sees the real potential for the reuse of materials or secondary raw materials. However, the Czech waste [...]
Tuesday, 11 October 2016 - The Czech Circular Economy Association considers the principle of technological neutrality a gamble in the field of environmental protection. Let us recall that technology neutrality generally means that the state does not favour certain technologies to the detriment of others. However, this is what landfill companies often call for. They do not want efficient technologies to be favoured over landfill. They do so mainly because [...]
Monday, October 3, 2016 - Prague, June 23, 2016 - The Czech Association of Circular Economy (ČAObH) is a newly founded, emerging group (a constituent association), whose birth was initiated by the companies VEOLIA and SITA CZ together with representatives of the academic sphere (VŠCHT). The main objective of the association is to promote the ideas of circular economy in the Czech Republic and to fight against landfilling of usable waste. [...]
Former Minister of the Environment Miloš Kužvart has become the Executive Director of the Czech Association of Circular Economy (ČAObH). Since its inception, the association has supported all aspects of the circular economy (circular economy) and currently works primarily to promote the recycling and recovery of waste instead of dumping waste in the ever-expanding Czech landfills. Who does the ČAObH associate?The Czech Association of Circular Economy, z. s., (ČAObH) [...]
