Sustainability & Environment Planned session

Zero Waste Schools: From Prevention to the Bin

Name: Zero Waste Schools: From Prevention to the Bin
Start: 2027-12-13
End: 2027-12-17
Location: Ema Rome

EU law ranks prevention above recycling. Most schools start at the bin. Five days working down the hierarchy to a Zero Waste Day you can run.

Session dates13–17 Dec 2027

LocationEma Rome

Duration5 days

FundingErasmus+ eligible

About this course

EU waste law ranks recycling third out of five. Almost every school starts there — which is why the bin by the door fills up with the wrong things while the two steps above it, the ones the law puts first, never get tried at all. Monday — sort and weigh what this group has…

Methodology

Real waste, weighed on day one

the week's opening data does not come from a case study. Participants sort and weigh waste the group has produced together since the morning, so the audit method is learned on material that is physically present and can be argued about.

One step of the hierarchy a day

from Tuesday, each day takes a step of the EU waste hierarchy in the order the Directive sets it out (Friday takes the last two), and each day ends with one written output the next day builds on — so Friday is working on what Monday produced.

Tested against the school that has no budget

every measure designed during the week is checked for what it costs, who maintains it, and what happens to it when the person who started it leaves.

What you'll take home

Run a waste audit — sort, weigh, record — and read the result as a composition rather than a total.

Place your own school on the five steps of the EU waste hierarchy and name the steps it has never used.

Design one prevention measure and one re-use system for your own building, each with a running cost and a named role behind it.

Plan a Zero Waste Day end to end: date, tasks, materials, and the before-and-after measurement that shows whether it changed anything.

Explain what the 2025 revision of EU waste law added on food and textiles, and which parts of a school sit inside what it measures.

Other dates for this course

11–15 Jan 2027 Mersin Planned
18–22 Jan 2027 Bremen Planned
22–26 Feb 2027 Rome Planned
19–23 Apr 2027 Antalya Planned
19–23 Apr 2027 Bremen Planned
21–25 Jun 2027 Rome Planned
19–23 Jul 2027 Bremen Planned
18–22 Oct 2027 Antalya Planned

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Where our participants come from

Aggregated across all EMA courses, not specific to this session.

Romanian 22%

Polish 16%

Lithuanian 9%

Portuguese 8%

Bulgarian 7%

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