Project "Towards zero waste" was created to meet young people's needs in the area of skills and abilities connected with protection of environment, ecology, influence on local communities in order to promote proecological attitude and behaviour, to initiate actions raising awareness of existing threads against the environment and above all to emphasize influence of each human being on the world. Topics connected with climate changes, pollution of the environment and increasing number of civilization diseases appears constantly in media. The issue is widely commented in social media and discussed in press. According to project organizers these problems do not have proper importance in local communities of EU countries with lower than average income per capita. Aims of "Towards zero waste" project: - preparing youngsters to be active in promoting environmental issues in their local communities, - getting to know methods of effective recycling household wastes, - getting to know recycling methods used in some EU countries, - counteraction of indifference regarding environmental protection, - introducing young people to the role of conscious consumer, - increasing the activity of young people, - making project participants aware ofthe importance of locally produced and bought goods, - making decision makers from Konya, Marsaskala, Koszeg, Siret and Chojna aware of the importance of environmental issues on local level, - building European identity.