waste

The Ministry of the Economy and Innovation announces it has launched a new initiative for circularity in the public sector, proposing to reuse written-off state assets.

According to estimates, one Lithuanian citizen generates about 41 kilograms of food waste a year. The member states of the European Union (EU), including Lithuania, have to separate kitchen and food waste from the general municipal waste. Even though the majority of Lithuanians were ordered to do so...

As Lithuania's state-owned energy group Ignitis Grupe (Ignitis Group) has recently completed the construction of a waste-fueled cogeneration power plant in Lithuania's second-largest city of Kaunas and is about to finish building another one in the capital Vilnius, the country's parliament on Thursd...

Growing social pressure regarding waste and ecology forces countries to introduce packaging deposit systems. Countries that are considering to charge a deposit for plastic, glass bottles or cans with wonder look at Lithuanian case. The country achieved very good results just in three years after int...

A huge amount of plastic in a dead whale's body, dying seashore birds from plastic stuff in their stomachs, danger of microplastic in every drop of water we consume. These are just some problems human activity creates on our planet. Despite all the damage plastic does to nature more and more people ...

Although Lithuania has made significant progress in waste management over the last years, it is still behind many other EU countries.

A Lithuanian hospital started converting infected medical waste into environmentally friendly alternative fuels.

Lithuania has just introduced a deposit system for disposal drink containers as it finds itself with much room to improve on waste management with around 40% of packaging going into landfills suitable for recycling.

292,000 tonnes of glass, plastic and paper packaging were sold in Lithuania in 2014 together with food products and other goods. Only 30 percent of the amount was properly recycled.

Annual greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in Lithuania amount to 4-5 tons per capita and are among the lowest in the European Union (EU), the European Environment Agency (EEA) said in a report The European Environment - State and Outlook 2015.

Lithuania is approaching the target established in the waste management plan to recycle or reuse at least 45 percent of municipal waste.

Following a little more than one year's discussions, the parliament of Lithuania adopted amendments to the Law on Pollution Tax which provide for introducing a tax on landfill waste pollution.