Humanity produces 2.1 to 2.3 billion tons of municipal solid waste each year. When mismanaged, much of this waste\u2014from food and plastics to electronics and textiles\u2014releases greenhouse gases or toxic chemicals. This damages ecosystems, causes disease, and threatens economic prosperity, disproportionately harming women and youth.<\/p>\n
On March 30, the world will mark International Zero Waste Day. Led by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), the observance highlights the importance of proper waste management. It also focuses on ways to reduce the conspicuous consumption that fuels the waste crisis.<\/p>\n
\u201cOverconsumption is killing us. Humanity needs action,\u201d says UN Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres. \u201cOn this Zero Waste Day, let us commit to ending the destructive cycle of waste once and for all.\u201d (More on unep.org<\/span><\/a>)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Humanity produces 2.1 to 2.3 billion tons of municipal solid waste each year. When mismanaged, much of this waste \u2013 from food and plastics to electronics and textiles \u2013 releases greenhouse gases or toxic chemicals. This damages ecosystems, causes disease and threatens economic prosperity, while disproportionately harming women and youth. On March 30, the world will commemorate International Zero Waste Day. Compliance, which [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klimaticka-zmena"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}