Categories: Glass, Metal, Paper, Plastic, Recycling, Technical and Research, Wood
Organisation: City of Amsterdam
Localisation: Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
Amsterdam is developing and testing the mechanism of object detection to recognize the littering of waste. Images are collected, processed and labelled with specific labels. These labels can be used to decide which service should be sent to solve the detected wrongdoings.
Categories: Other bulky items, Recycling, Technical and Research
Organisation: EMULSA
Localisation: Gijon, Asturias (Spain)
The civic amenity sites access control is a project for controlling the access of citizens and companies and the amount of products that they deliver in three civic amenity sites of Gijon.
Categories: Eco Consumption, Eco Design, Eco Production, Economic, Product Service Systems, Reuse and preparing for reuse, Technical and Research, Waste Prevention
Organisation: - Government of Catalonia (Catalan Agency for Business Competitiveness (ACCIÓ) and Department of Business and Knowledge
Localisation: Catalonia (Spain)
The Catalan Eco-Vouchers Programme aims to improve SMEs’ environmental performance and competitiveness through innovative and circular solutions. The vouchers give access to a number of eco-innovation services to improve eco-design and foster the transition to new business models.
Categories: Construction Material, Eco Design, Eco Production, Other Fractions, Recycling, Reuse and preparing for reuse, Technical and Research
Organisation: Central Denmark Region
Main partners:
Localisation: Central Denmark Region (DK)
Design for Disassembly is a pilot project addressing Circular Economy/ Cradle to Cradle in Central Denmark with specific focus on optimizing design of pure materials and products through cooperations along value chains. The project targets small and medium-sized manufacturing companies from all industries in Central Denmark Region.
Categories: Recycling, Technical and Research
Organisation: LIPOR - Intermunicipal Waste Management of Greater Porto
Localisation: Greater Porto, Norte Region, Portugal
This Waste Management Platform set up by LIPOR aims to contribute to the optimization of logistics, namely the possibility of monitoring waste flows through wireless communication technologies.
Categories: Economic, EEE, Glass, Metal, Other bulky items, Plastic, Recycling, Reuse and preparing for reuse, Wood
Organisation: IMOG
Localisation: Harelbeke, South- west Flanders (BE)
The URBANREC app is especially devoted to bulky waste reduction and recycling. This app fills the gap between the re-use center, inhabitants, and IMOG (intermunicipal association for public health in South-West-Flanders).
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Business models, Collaborative Economy, Communication and Education, Construction Material, Eco Consumption, Eco Design, Eco Production, Economic, EEE, Glass, Governance, Strategy and Planning, Industrial and Territorial Ecology, Instruments, Land use, Legal, Material fractions, Metal, Other bulky items, Other Fractions, Paper, Plastic, Product Service Systems, Recycling, Reuse and preparing for reuse, Technical and Research, Waste Prevention, Wood
Organisation: Glasgow Chamber of Commerce
Main partners:
Localisation: Glasgow (UK)
Zero Waste Scotland (ZWS) was a programme set up in 2010 to support the implementation of the Scottish Government’s Zero Waste Plan. In 2014, ZWS became an independent not-for-profit company, funded by the Scottish Government to deliver circular economy and low carbon policy priorities. Scotland has realised the benefits of being a frontrunner in waste reduction and the government has consistently supported local authorities to drive up recycling rates. This ambition for a Zero Waste society evolved into strong support for a Circular Economy.
Categories: Collaborative Economy, Construction Material, Eco Consumption, Eco Design, Eco Production, Governance, Strategy and Planning, Industrial and Territorial Ecology, Product Service Systems, Recycling, Resources, Reuse and preparing for reuse, Waste Prevention
Organisation: 1) - Regione Lombardia; 2) ARPA Lombardia
Main partners:
Localisation: Lombardia (IT)
The Lombardy Region implemented several actions and strategies at regional level to keep the circular economy as central element in the development of its territory. The strategy focuses on a set of regional plans that touch themes such as EU funds, environmental communication, sustainable development, engagement of SMEs, waste management. Furthermore, the Lombardy Region is partner in Eu funded projects, which foster the mainstreaming of the circular economy approach in the development of regional and local policies.
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Business models, Collaborative Economy, Communication and Education, Construction Material, Eco Consumption, Eco Design, Eco Production, Economic, EEE, Glass, Governance, Strategy and Planning, Industrial and Territorial Ecology, Instruments, Legal, Material fractions, Metal, Other bulky items, Other Fractions, Paper, Plastic, Product Service Systems, Recycling, Reuse and preparing for reuse, Technical and Research, Waste Prevention, Wood
Organisation: Pays de la Loire Region (Main remits : Transports, infrastructures including high schools, energy, and environment)
Main partners:
Localisation: Pays de la Loire (FR)
In October 2019 the Pays de la Loire region adopted a regional action plan on circular economy, based on 4 axes: framework for transition to circular economy, support to regional and local stakeholders, actions in specific sectors that are strategic for the region, and be an actor of change.
Categories: Biodiversity, Biogenic fraction, Energy, Recycling, Waste Prevention
Organisation: Friesland Region
Localisation: Friesland (the Netherlands)
The Mienskipsgreen project aims to reach optimal valorisation of biomass stocks in the region to generate societal and ecological prosperity. Through an integrated approach, the project seeks to demonstrate that a closed biomass cycle is achievable and creates a number of benefits such as increased soil quality, reduced energy consumption and the production of valuable bio-based products.
Categories: Energy, Governance, Strategy and Planning, Water
Organisation: City of Jyväskylä
Main partners:
Sitra, Finnish Innovation Fund
Localisation: Jyväskylä (FI)
The City of Jyväskylä implemented a strategy focused on Resource Wisdom “a scalable operating model for cities and regions to create sustainable well-being from a circular and carbon-neutral economy”. The strategy focuses on renewable energy, sustainable transport, waste as a resource, local and healthy food, valuable water and sustainable communities.
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Construction Material, Eco Production, Economic, Industrial and Territorial Ecology, Other Fractions, Recycling, Technical and Research, Waste Prevention, Wood
Organisation: Regional Council of Lapland
Main partners:
Localisation: Lapland (FI)
Circular economy has been implemented in Lapland through industrial symbiosis, in the so-called “arctic way”, creating an ecosystem and investing on the natural resources present in the region. The main site of arctic innovation in Lapland is the Kemi-Tornio sub-region, where a technology park which utilises industries’s byproducts has been developed. The region also hosts the Finnish National Industrial Circular Economy Centre, working on circular economy and bioeconomy at national level.
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Business models, Collaborative Economy, Communication and Education, Construction Material, Eco Consumption, Eco Design, Eco Production, Economic, EEE, Glass, Governance, Strategy and Planning, Industrial and Territorial Ecology, Instruments, Legal, Material fractions, Metal, Other bulky items, Other Fractions, Paper, Plastic, Product Service Systems, Recycling, Reuse and preparing for reuse, Technical and Research, Waste Prevention, Wood
Organisation: City of Paris, Greater Paris Metropolis
Main partners:
Localisation: Paris (FR)
In July 2017, ACR+ member the City of Paris adopted a plan for the development of the circular economy on its territory. To ensure this necessary transition to a less resource-intensive economy, the city aims to support the development of businesses that do not generate waste or that avoid the production of waste by offering a second life to objects. The plan is declined in multiannual roadmaps focusing on specific actions, coming in particular from the proposals made in the “white paper for circular economy of Greater Paris Metropolis” adopted in 2015.
Categories: Collaborative Economy, Communication and Education, Eco Design, Industrial and Territorial Ecology, Product Service Systems, Technical and Research
Organisation: Basque Government (via Ihobe)
Main partners:
Localisation: Bilbao/BAsque Country/Spain
Located in Bilbao, the Basque Ecodesign Hub is the core of the training activities on ecodesign in the Basque Country. Founded by the Basque Government in collaboration with a number of private and public Basque agents, the hub provides professional trainings on circular economy and ecodesign, as well as support to entrepreneurs.
Categories: Biodiversity, Biogenic fraction, Communication and Education, Eco Consumption, Eco Design, Eco Production, Energy, Land use, Other Fractions, Recycling, Technical and Research, Water
Organisation: Province of Drenthe
Main partners:
Localisation: Drenthe/Netherlands
A series of sustainable dairy farm projects have been implemented in the Province of Drenthe. The activities were carried out with a “life cycle approach”, aiming to support farmers in optimizing their farming system. Nutrient recycling and improving soil biodiversity were key to the approach.
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Communication and Education, Economic, Glass, Governance, Strategy and Planning, Legal, Metal, Paper, Plastic, Recycling, Reuse and preparing for reuse, Waste Prevention
Organisation: Autonomous Region of Sardinia
Localisation: Sardinia/Italy
Sardinia managed to achieve a dramatic improvement in its waste management performance becoming one of the best performing islands in the Mediterranean. Focusing on bio-waste separate collection and door-to-door collection, the island reached 60% separate collection in 2016 proving that tourist destinations can achieve high waste management targets.
Categories: Construction Material, Eco Consumption, Eco Design, Eco Production, Governance, Strategy and Planning, Land use, Recycling, Reuse and preparing for reuse, Waste Prevention
Organisation: Municipality of Prato
Main partners:
Localisation: Prato/Tuscany/Italy
The City of Prato’s strategy targets the construction sector, aiming at reducing and reusing construction and demolition waste. The City as developed measures to regenerate degraded and marginalised parts of the city with a “5 R” approach (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Recover, Residual treatment), engaging in a number of partnerships at both local and European level. Circular economy in Prato has been integrated in the city’s Strategic Operational Plan, aiming not only at urban regeneration but also at an improvement of social cohesion and community life.
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Collaborative Economy, Eco Consumption, Eco Production, Waste Prevention
Organisation: City of Edimburgh Council
Main partners:
Edible Edinburgh
Localisation: Edinburgh/Scotland/UK
The city of Edinburgh committed to develop a sustainable food strategy, according to the “Sustainable Edinburgh 2020”, published in 2011. Consequently, Edible Edinburgh was created to support the strategy, and elaborated the Sustainable Food City Plan, that aims at improving the food system for citizens and providing good food products.
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Eco Consumption, Eco Production, Governance, Strategy and Planning, Land use, Waste Prevention
Tags: procurement
Organisation: City of Gothenburg
Main partners:
Localisation: Gothenburg/Sweden
Since 2009 the City of Gothenburg has promoted a better land use oriented at food production, through organic and urban agriculture.
The municipality developed many activities in 5 focus areas: food production, food consumption, food deliveries and logistics, resource efficiency nutrient circulation and water for food. Specific attention is paid to capitalising on Gothenburg’s large availability of unused land, turning it into a resource for local and organic food production.
Categories: Collaborative Economy, Eco Consumption, Eco Design, Eco Production, Economic, Other Fractions, Product Service Systems, Recycling, Reuse and preparing for reuse, Technical and Research, Waste Prevention
Organisation: Region of West Sweden/Sweden; Swedish Society for Nature Conservation; Avfall Sverige
Main partners:
Localisation: Region of West Sweden/Sweden
Re:Textile is a Swedish regional initiative which aims to implement circularity in the textile industry, creating business opportunities while using less natural resources. Re:Textile pursues eco-design and new business models in cooperation with stakeholders in the used textiles sector. The project has established a Re:Design Factory and looks forward to the creation of a national sorting centre for textiles.
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Collaborative Economy, Communication and Education, Construction Material, Eco Consumption, Economic, EEE, Glass, Legal, Metal, Other Fractions, Paper, Plastic
Tags: procurement
Organisation: Autonomous Region of Sardinia – Environmental Department
Main partners:
Localisation: Autonomous Region of Sardinia/Italy
The Autonomous Region of Sardinia, first Italian region to introduce its own regional strategy for green purchases, developed a new regional plan for Green Public Procurement (GPP). The main policy strategy is the PAPERS, a regional plan, containing objectives and actions to implement green and social criteria for public procurement also within the Operational Programme European Regional Development Fund (OP ERDF) 2014-2020.
Categories: Collaborative Economy, Communication and Education, Eco Consumption, Economic, EEE, Glass, Governance, Strategy and Planning, Legal, Metal, Paper, Plastic, Reuse and preparing for reuse, Technical and Research, Waste Prevention, Wood
Organisation: Red Social Koopera Gizarte Sarea
Main partners:
Localisation: Basque Country/Spain
Koopera Reusing Centre is the first comprehensive state plan in Spain for the collection and reuse of different kinds of goods, from clothes to books and appliances, envisioning zero waste together with social inclusion. Goods get collected, prepared for reuse and sold in the Koopera stores for an accessible price. In the Basque Country, a voice-recognition system has been implemented for the sorting of waste.
Categories: EEE, Glass, Metal, Other bulky items, Paper, Plastic, Reuse and preparing for reuse, Technical and Research, Wood
Organisation: Gothenburg municipality
Main partners:
Local thrift shops (1 of them being owned by the municipality)
Localisation: Gothenburg /Sweden
Combining civic amenity sites with reuse is one of the possibilities to increase the collected quantities for re-use. This has been done for many years in the Alelyckan Reuse Park in Gothenburg (Sweden), where inhabitants are invited to donate the products they bring before disposing of them in the different recycling containers. The originality of this reuse park is to include a thrift shop, a workshop for renovating furniture and bicycles, and a store for used building materials like windows, closets, tiles, etc. in addition to a traditional civic amenity site. About 5% of the brought items are reused.
Categories: Communication and Education, Governance, Strategy and Planning, Legal, Paper, Recycling
Organisation: Municipality of Cádiz
Main partners:
Localisation: Cádiz/Andalusia/Spain
This practice concerns the collection system for recyclable paper and cardboard implemented in the City of Cádiz. The system, supported by information and communication campaigns, boosted selective collection of paper and cardboard in the municipality, reaching 81% in 2015.
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Glass, Governance, Strategy and Planning, Land use, Metal, Paper, Plastic, Recycling
Organisation: Palma City Council
Main partners:
Localisation: Palma de Mallorca/Balearic Islands/Spain
This practice was developed as an alternative to conventional waste bins in those areas where there is not enough space to place them and where these must be well-integrated due to the environment where they are located. The municipality of Palma implemented mobile collection points, a system thanks to which the bins can be removed from the street after the collection hours and put back in place on a daily basis.
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Construction Material, EEE, Glass, Governance, Strategy and Planning, Land use, Metal, Other bulky items, Other Fractions, Paper, Plastic, Recycling, Wood
Organisation: Island Council of Ibiza
Main partners:
Localisation: Ibiza/Balearic Islands/Spain
Mobile waste collection points were implemented in Ibiza with the purpose to combine an efficient selective collection system with a low visual and spatial impact of waste management in the urban heritage area. The Mobile Clean Points are waste collection vehicles adapted to be used by citizens, collecting different types of waste in various locations on the island.
Categories: Glass, Governance, Strategy and Planning, Land use, Legal, Metal, Paper, Plastic, Recycling, Technical and Research
Organisation: City of Florence
Main partners:
Localisation: Florence/Tuscany/Italy
The City of Florence implemented an underground waste collection system in the historical city centre to reduce the aesthetic impact of waste and boost selective collection. This was done in combination with an archaeological surveillance procedure which allowed the valorisation of eventual archaeological findings made during the digging phase, enriching the historical knowledge of the city.
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Glass, Governance, Strategy and Planning, Land use, Legal, Metal, Paper, Plastic, Recycling
Organisation: E.M. Sanitation Córdoba
Main partners:
Localisation: Córdoba/Andalusia/Spain
The City of Córdoba implemented a series of waste deposit solutions aimed at addressing the problem of the visual impact of waste management in heritage city centres. Waste collection points, underground containers and container covers were integrated in the urban centre succeeding in reconciling the need to implement separate collection with environmental aesthetics and urban hygiene.
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Economic, Glass, Legal, Metal, Paper, Plastic, Waste Prevention
Organisation: BIR AS
Localisation: Bergen/Norway
A flexible fee model for selective waste collection was introduced in Bergen and 8 surrounding municipalities with the aim to reduce the overall amount of waste generated by households by rewarding customers for considering the environment and optimising selective collection. This initiative proved to be effective in reducing the total residual waste.
Categories: Communication and Education, Eco Consumption, Energy, Recycling, Water
Tags: resource efficiency
Organisation: Zero Waste Scotland
Main partners:
Localisation: Scotland/UK
Zero Waste Scotland supports businesses to improve their resource efficiency through the Resource Efficient Scotland service. This service, delivered through different pathways, helps to meet environmental objectives while improving business productivity, competitiveness and business resilience. Since its launch, over 3,500 businesses were helped, with one-to-one support identifying savings totalling £42million.
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Collaborative Economy, Construction Material, Eco Consumption, Eco Design, Eco Production, Glass, Industrial and Territorial Ecology, Metal, Paper, Plastic, Product Service Systems, Recycling, Reuse and preparing for reuse, Waste Prevention
Tags: business support
Organisation: Zero Waste Scotland
Main partners:
Localisation: Scotland/UK
Zero Waste Scotland administers an £18million Circular Economy Investment Fund, which provides grant funding to small to medium sized businesses (SMEs) to:
• Explore markets for new circular economy products;
• Commercialise innovative business models for new circular economy products and services;
• Develop innovative technologies, products and services to support a circular economy.
Categories: Collaborative Economy, Eco Consumption, Eco Design, Eco Production, Industrial and Territorial Ecology, Product Service Systems, Recycling, Reuse and preparing for reuse, Waste Prevention
Tags: business support
Organisation: Zero Waste Scotland
Main partners:
Localisation: Scotland/UK
The Circular Economy Business Support Service, administered by Zero Waste Scotland, offers support to SMEs based in Scotland who are developing solutions that will deliver circular economy growth. It is supported by the European Regional Development Fund through the £73 million Resource Efficiency Circular Economy Accelerator Programme.
Categories: Communication and Education, Eco Consumption, Eco Production, Economic, Governance, Strategy and Planning, Legal, Plastic, Waste Prevention
Organisation: Zero Waste Scotland
Main partners:
Localisation: Scotland/UK
In October 2014, Scotland introduced a minimum 5p charge for single use carrier bags through the Single Use Carrier Bags Charge (Scotland) Regulations 2014. Before the charge, retailers in Scotland gave out an estimated 800 million single-use bags each year. The new regulations have dramatically reduced this number. Through the Carrier Bag Commitment Scottish retailers have and continue to direct the proceeds of the charge to all manner of good causes.
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Collaborative Economy, Communication and Education, Eco Consumption, Eco Production, Economic, Governance, Strategy and Planning, Legal, Waste Prevention
Tags: sustainable food, food chain
Organisation: Municipality of Amersfoort
Main partners:
Localisation: Amersfoort/Utrecht/Netherlands
Echt Eten Metwerk (EEM, “Real Food Network”), in partnership with the municipality of Amersfoort and other local actors, released a Local Action Plan (LAP) entitled “Real Food in the EEM-City” (Echt Eten in de EEMstad). This strategy shows the position of Amersfoort in regard to local food and sustainability in 2014 and 2015. This includes an historical background, projects undertaken and outcomes of those projects.
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Business models, Construction Material, EEE, Governance, Strategy and Planning, Legal, Other Fractions, Plastic, Recycling, Reuse and preparing for reuse, Waste Prevention
Organisation: London Waste and Recycling Board (LWARB)
Main partners:
Localisation: London/United Kingdom
The Greater London Authority (the Mayor of London’s administration) and the London Waste and Recycling Board cooperated to develop and implement a route map for the city’s transition towards a circular economy, focusing especially on 5 areas: built environment, food, textiles, electricals and plastics. LWARB are now working with stakeholders across London to deliver the action plan contained within the route map. This work includes programmes to create the right conditions for the circular economy through collaboration, policy, finance, business support and promoting circular actions and models.
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Collaborative Economy, Eco Consumption, Eco Production, Governance, Strategy and Planning, Industrial and Territorial Ecology, Reuse and preparing for reuse, Waste Prevention
Organisation: Municipality of Milano
Main partners:
Localisation: Milan/Lombardia/Italy
The Milan Food Policy was elaborated through the interaction of all citizens, local authorities and stakeholders, and brought several initiatives and projects related to the topic of food. The municipality proved to be innovative, since it keeps updating, developing and working on the strategy by involving and engaging more cities through the promotion of the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact in order to generate international commitment on the topic of sustainable food.
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Collaborative Economy, Communication and Education, Eco Consumption, Eco Production, Economic, Energy, Governance, Strategy and Planning, Recycling, Waste Prevention, Water
Organisation: Bristol City Council
Main partners:
Localisation: Bristol / South West England / UK
Building on local food activism since the 1970s, the Bristol Food Policy Council (FPC) was created in 2011 to provide a focused group of committed people from different parts of the food system who could use their influence and networks to put food onto the City agenda and keep it there. The Food Policy Council defines its aim as ‘Good food for everyone, by which we mean food that is not just tasty, healthy and affordable, but also good for nature, good for workers, good for animal welfare and good for local businesses.’ Since 2011 the FPC has in particular worked with multiple stakeholders to create ‘A Good Food Plan for Bristol’ (2013) leading to a detailed Food Action Plan for the City (2015), inclusion of food as a theme for the Bristol Green Capital Partnership (comprising 800 organisations). The work is continually evolving, and the FPC has now helped create, along with other groups, an overarching Bristol Good Food Alliance to foster coordination and shared support for Bristol’s food movement. The underlying principles relate to health, social justice and care of the ecological world.
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Communication and Education, Construction Material, Eco Production, EEE, Energy, Glass, Industrial and Territorial Ecology, Metal, Paper, Plastic, Recycling, Reuse and preparing for reuse, Technical and Research, Waste Prevention, Water, Wood
Organisation: -Vinnova (National development agency) -NSR (North-west-Scania waste management company) -Sustainable Business Hub
Main partners:
Localisation: Helsinborg, Sweden
Vera Park serves as an industrial park and test bed from a waste and recycling perspective near Helsinborg, Sweden. A test bed is another name for the trial site for various research projects carried out in reality. Vera Park gathers a wide range of companies working in synergies. The close ties to industry and academy provide unique knowledge that is taught at the Vera Park Academy.
Categories: Eco Consumption, Economic, Metal, Other bulky items, Paper, Plastic, Product Service Systems, Recycling, Reuse and preparing for reuse, Waste Prevention, Wood
Organisation: City of Aalborg, Department of Environment, Centre for Green Transition
Main partners:
Localisation: City of Aalborg, Denmark
The City of Aalborg has implemented a circular public procurement of learning environments in the municipal primary schools. The tender provided the framework for how to recycle and repair the furniture to the municipality’s primary schools: instead of investing in brand new furniture and throw the old away, the task was furnishing classrooms with a mix of new, recycled and refurbished furniture.
Categories: Collaborative Economy, Construction Material, EEE, Energy, Governance, Strategy and Planning, Other Fractions, Product Service Systems
Organisation: Schiphol Airport/Schiphol Group
Main partners:
Localisation: Amsterdam/Northern Holland/The Netherlands
Schiphol Airport boosts the principles of sustainability with the goal to generate zero waste by 2030. Supporting circular economy, it made a deal with Philips Lighting, which has been working on a lighting retrofit at the airport based on a lighting-as-a-service business model. This business model puts focus on relationships via services instead of equipment selling.
Categories: Governance, Strategy and Planning, Recycling, Reuse and preparing for reuse
Organisation: Ponikve company – owned by Krk island’s municipalities
Main partners:
Localisation: Island of Krk/Primorsko-goranska županija /Croatia
Krk island’s municipalities and Ponikve started a new collection system, door-to-door, to increase the quality of the collection and improve the rate of reuse. As a result, Ponikve separates about 45% of the collected waste.
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Collaborative Economy, Energy, Governance, Strategy and Planning, Recycling, Reuse and preparing for reuse, Technical and Research, Waste Prevention, Water
Organisation: Wcycle Institute – circular economy cluster of local public utility companies
Main partners:
Localisation: Maribor (SI)
The municipality of Maribor is involved in several actions and projects to establish a circularity of waste, recyclables, water and energy, such as the Wcycle project, creating a strategic development model for the city as an urban centre in the field of integrated management of all generated waste, surplus energy, and wastewater.
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Energy, Industrial and Territorial Ecology, Recycling, Technical and Research
Organisation: Bjuv municipality
Main partners:
Localisation: Bjuv/ Skåne /Sweden
The Food Valley of Bjuv (FVoB) is a cluster initiative founded by the Swedish food producer Findus Sverige AB in cooperation with the Bjuv municipality. It aims at developing innovative sustainable solutions for food production. The cluster has been created to be a meeting place for innovators and entrepreneurs to come together and develop new solutions, and to establish recycling-based production for food. Food Valley of Bjuv has currently several focus areas: sustainable food production, –green impact industrial park, onshore fish farming, greenhouse cultivation, innovative packaging industry and other related supportive industrial establishment.
Food Valley of Bjuv is also linked to innovation clusters and science parks such as Krinova Science Park (Sweden’s largest food incubator), Ideon Innovation (center for start-up businesses adjacent to the University of Lund), Food Evolution (Food Networks around Helsingborg and Food Academy, Sweden’s largest food clusters) and the Green Innovation Park Alnarp (GIPA).
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Energy, Industrial and Territorial Ecology, Metal, Other Fractions, Plastic, Technical and Research, Wood
Organisation: Verte Oy (public company owned by municipality of Nokia)
Main partners:
Main company partners are 21 anchor firms and technology providers such as (full list from the ECO3 web site):
Main public partners are:
Localisation: Nokia, Tampere region, Finland
ECO3 is a business park located in the Kolmenkulma business park in the border area between the cities of Nokia, Tampere and Ylöjärvi. The core of the industrial activity is being formed from bio- and circular economy companies which activities offer possibilities to many other tech and service companies in the bio- and circular economy, water-economy and energy field. From this area of independent organizations, a new creative ecosystem has developed, which exceeds traditional sector boundaries, and in which one person’s waste is another’s commodity. ECO3 works simultaneously as a demonstration and pilot environment, which is developed by co-operating with both domestic and foreign companies, as well as universities.
Categories: Collaborative Economy, Governance, Strategy and Planning, Other Fractions, Product Service Systems
Organisation: Peterborough City Council
Main partners:
Localisation: Peterborough (UK)
Share Peterborough is a totally free online sharing community for Peterborough organisations, reserved to subscribed members only. Registered members can thus exchange resources and needs, according to three main categories, people-products-places, for instance: someone can offer a spare meeting room to other members, while others can provide products, skills and services in exchange.
Categories: Collaborative Economy, Economic, EEE, Governance, Strategy and Planning, Land use, Legal, Other bulky items, Other Fractions, Reuse and preparing for reuse, Waste Prevention
Organisation: Bologna Municipal Authority
Main partners:
Localisation: Bologna (IT)
Bologna Municipal Authority’s Register for Active Participation (Registro Cittadinanza Attiva del Comune di Bologna) represents an excellent example of governance structures and new legal frameworks aimed at fostering circular economy initiatives. The municipal authority has approved several circular economy projects within the framework of Bologna’s Regulations for the Care and Regeneration of Urban Public Property that was adopted by the Municipal Authority in 2014. One example is the association REUSE WITH LOVE, which is registered on the list for active participation in Bologna, with its two projects REUSE WITH LOVE and REUSE FOR GOOD.
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Eco Consumption, Governance, Strategy and Planning, Waste Prevention
Organisation: Tukums Municipality
Main partners:
Localisation: Tukums (Latvia)
This good practices factsheet looks at the strategic objectives of the Urban Food Strategy adopted by the city of Tukums, deriving from the cooperation with the Foodlinks programme. Actually, Foodlinks, within its objective to promote sustainable food consumption and production, developed a specific ‘Community of Practice on Urban Food Strategies’. The project was carried out by different European municipalities, including Tukums.
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Construction Material, EEE, Energy, Glass, Industrial and Territorial Ecology, Metal, Other bulky items, Other Fractions, Paper, Plastic, Technical and Research, Water, Wood
Organisation: Barbera del Valles Municipality (Spain), Sabadell Municipality (Spain)
Main partners:
Localisation: Corridor of Barberà del Vallès – Sabadell (Spain)
In order to spread industrial symbiosis concepts and its advantages to the 2,500 manufacturer companies forming part of the industrial area corridor of Barberà del Vallès – Sabadell, the two municipalities are working together to share resources and implement a common industrial symbiosis program. The main goal is to establish the basis of a new economic model based in more collaborative participation of the companies to maximize its resource efficiency.
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Construction Material, Eco Production, Economic, EEE, Energy, Glass, Metal, Other bulky items, Other Fractions, Paper, Plastic, Wood
Organisation: Citydev.Brussels - Brussels Regional Development Agency (helps businesses find sites in the Brussels-Capital Region. It also builds private homes as part of urban renewal projects)
Main partners:
Localisation: Brussels (Belgium)
The Brussels Greenbizz is a pre-incubation, incubation, prototyping and production infrastructure. The goals include boosting sustainable economic sectors in Brussels and supporting business initiatives in the sustainable economy by offering start-ups an optimum environment in which to develop their business ideas in a totally new building pioneering innovative, pleasing and exemplary architecture in terms of sustainable development.
Categories: Other Fractions, Reuse and preparing for reuse, Technical and Research
Organisation: AMIU (Azienda Multiservizi e d'Igiene Urbana) (local municipal waste management and garbage disposal agency of Genova municipality)
Main partners:
Localisation: Genoa (IT)
“The medication prolongs life” (Il farmaco allunga la vita): The Genoese Pharmacies owned by the Municipality, in collaboration with the Association Gigi Ghirotti, are engaged in the collection of unused, valid, non-heat-sensitive medicines and with undamaged packages. The material are handed over to the eight community pharmacies and used by poor patients.
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Business models, Collaborative Economy, Communication and Education, Construction Material, Eco Consumption, Eco Design, Eco Production, Economic, EEE, Glass, Governance, Strategy and Planning, Industrial and Territorial Ecology, Instruments, Legal, Material fractions, Metal, Other bulky items, Other Fractions, Paper, Plastic, Product Service Systems, Recycling, Reuse and preparing for reuse, Technical and Research, Waste Prevention, Wood
Organisation: 1) Basque Government’s Ministry for the Environment and Territorial Policy; 2) Ihobe (public agency of environment)
Main partners:
Localisation: Basque Country (ES)
In the case of the Basque Country, boosting the circular economy means committing to “greening” manufacturing, products, consumption and end-of-life, through public-private collaboration. Basque country has a long culture of networking and public-private collaboration and an average to high position on the “regional innovation scoreboard”.
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Collaborative Economy, Eco Production, Governance, Strategy and Planning, Land use
Tags: community gardens, Utrecht
Organisation: Utrecht City
Main partners:
Localisation: Utrecht (The Netherlands)
In Utrecht in the last few years a great diversity of community gardens has emerged. These include: gardens where young children work together with elderly people, gardens where people with diverse ethnic backgrounds unite, gardens where vulnerable people with severe mental and addiction challenges can find peace and learn to participate in society again, gardens in privileged neighbourhoods as well as in poorer districts, food gardens, educational gardens as well as more creative art gardens.
Categories: Collaborative Economy, Eco Production, Governance, Strategy and Planning, Land use
Tags: Oosterwold, urban planning
Organisation: 1. Municipality of Zeewolde; 2. Municipality of Almere
Main partners:
Localisation: Almere (The Netherlands)
Oosterwold is an area of 4,300 hectares to the east of Almere, with space for 15,000 new habitations while still maintaining its green and agriculutural character. The municipalities of Zeewolde and Almere, who together govern the area, have decided to leave the development of this area entirely to private citizen’s initiative.
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Communication and Education, Eco Consumption, Eco Production, Governance, Strategy and Planning, Waste Prevention, Water
Organisation: Ghent municipality
Main partners:
Localisation: Ghent (Belgium)
The main goal of Ghent’s food policy is to lessen the negative climate impacts in every step of the food chain and increase the sustainability of the food system. After instating the project ‘Thursday Veggie-day’ [Donderdag Veggiedag], the city wanted to create a strategy that would help towards the goal in making Ghent a climate neutral city by 2050, including its food system. As a result of this commitment, Gent launched the Gent en Garde program in 2013.
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Eco Production, Economic, EEE, Glass, Metal, Plastic, Recycling, Reuse and preparing for reuse
Organisation: Zero Waste Scotland
Main partners:
Localisation: Scotland (UK)
The Scottish Recycling Fund (SRF) is a £3.8 million (€5 million) fund established in 2015 by Zero Waste Scotland and Scottish Enterprise to develop or expand materials reprocessing capacity and remanufacturing facilities in Scotland. The fund is able to offer loans, repayable over a 3-5 year period on commercial terms, to organisations that are interested in developing the relevant infrastructure in Scotland. While loans are primarily for capital investment, they can include working capital.
Categories: Construction Material, Eco Design, Eco Production, EEE, Glass, Metal, Other bulky items, Plastic, Reuse and preparing for reuse, Technical and Research, Wood
Organisation: 1. Zero Waste Scotland; 2. Scottish Funding Council (Scottish strategic body for funding teaching and learning provision and research)
Main partners:
Localisation: Scotland (UK)
The Scottish Institute for Remanufacture (SIR) is funded by the Scottish Funding Council and Zero Waste Scotland. Hosted at the University of Strathclyde, SIR is a pan Scotland centre of excellence to increase innovation in remanufacturing. By stimulating and co-funding collaborative projects that address industry challenges it enables companies to increase reuse, repair and remanufacture in their manufacturing operations.
Categories: Biodiversity, Biogenic fraction, Business models, Collaborative Economy, Communication and Education, Construction Material, Eco Consumption, Eco Design, Eco Production, Economic, EEE, Energy, Glass, Governance, Strategy and Planning, Industrial and Territorial Ecology, Land use, Legal, Material fractions, Metal, Other bulky items, Other Fractions, Paper, Plastic, Product Service Systems, Recycling, Reuse and preparing for reuse, Technical and Research, Waste Prevention, Water, Wood
Organisation: Circular Friesland Association
Main partners:
Localisation: Friesland (NL)
The Circular Friesland Association (Vereniging Circulair Friesland) was initiated by coorporations within Friesland, later drawing in the provincial municipalities as partners. There was an acceptance that future business models would have to change due to the changing state of natural resources. In Friesland the chains are short and most parties are already familiar with eachother, allowing the concept of circular economy to be absorbed in the transition that was already taking place within the area.
Categories: Biodiversity, Biogenic fraction, Communication and Education, Eco Consumption, Eco Production, Governance, Strategy and Planning, Land use, Waste Prevention
Organisation: LIPOR – Intermunicipal Waste Management of Greater Porto
Main partners:
Localisation: Greater Porto (Portugal)
Since Lipor’s constitution, in 1982, the organic waste management has represented a crucial issue in Lipor’s strategy. Through composting, Lipor has promoted the recovery of the organic fraction present in the Municipal Waste (about of 40%, in weight, of its composition) and the production of a natural compost with beneficial properties for lands poor in organic matter.
Currently, and taking into account the National and European politics, Lipor developed a sustainable management of the municipal waste produced by its associated municipalities, in which preventing waste production is considered the starting point. Although there are several projects related with home composting, educational kitchen gardens and organic farming in Porto’s Region, they are spread and not easily accessible to the population. The creation of a net of this nature has a great importance.
In an attempt to optimize the existing areas, information and resources in the region, Lipor launched the Project Horta à Porta. This initiative allows the creation of dynamic and productive green areas but also the promotion of the contact with nature and healthful habits without forgetting the waste reduction.
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Communication and Education, Construction Material, Eco Consumption, Eco Production, EEE, Energy, Glass, Metal, Other bulky items, Other Fractions, Paper, Plastic, Reuse and preparing for reuse, Technical and Research, Waste Prevention, Water, Wood
Organisation: Brussels Environment (IBGE-BIM)
Main partners:
Localisation: Brussels (Belgium)
The Ecodynamic enterprise label was created in 1999 by Brussels Environment. This Environmental Management System (EMS) offers private companies and public administrations with a systematic approach to lowering their impact on the environment. The “Ecodynamic enterprise” label is an official recognition of good environmental management practices by the Brussels-Capital Region. It encourages the introduction of an EMS, with a view towards eventual EMAS or ISO 14001 registrations. There are three levels depending on the initial level of environmental performance within the organisation. Each level is symbolised by stars. Applications are evaluated based on a large range of criteria. These criteria concern specific ecomanagement actions, quality of the environmental review, and the plan of actions established.
Categories: Eco Consumption, Economic, Other Fractions, Recycling
Tags: procurement
Organisation: Metropolitan City of Rome Capital
Localisation: Rome
This good practices factsheet focuses on the tender for the acquisition of recycled cartridges by the Metropolitan City of Rome Capital.
Categories: Eco Consumption, Economic, Other Fractions, Paper, Recycling
Tags: procurement
Organisation: City of Ghent
Localisation: Ghent (Belgium)
In 2008, the City of Ghent put the Ghent 2020 action plan into place, setting the policy scene for concrete actions for a sustainable, inclusive and open society. This good practice factsheet focuses on the city of Ghent’s procuremet of paper and office supply.
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Collaborative Economy, Governance, Strategy and Planning, Land use, Technical and Research
Organisation: Social structures Ghent NPO (Samenlevingsopbouw Gent vzw)
Main partners:
Localisation: Ghent (Belgium)
The Site (De site) is a meeting point for local residents in Ghent of different population group, nationalities and people of different ages. This kind of meeting place is created not only by providing the necessary infrastructure (including a 3000 m² urban horticulture plot, mini kitchen gardens, a multi-purpose sports terrain, containers to provide material storage and work space, etc.), but also by developing projects with appropriate content (relating to both the neighbourhood and beyond).
Categories: Communication and Education, Economic, Glass, Reuse and preparing for reuse, Technical and Research
Organisation: Styrian Chamber of Agriculture
Main partners:
Localisation: Styria (Austria)
This action was organised in 2011 as a pilot project by the Specialised Division 19D Waste and Material Flow Management of the Styrian Provincial Government and the Wine Department of the Styrian Chamber of Agriculture in collaboration with Styrian winegrowers, SPAR supermarkets and the friends of Styrian quality wines. The action aimed to increase the quantity of Steiermarkflaschen that are refilled after their first use.
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Communication and Education, Glass, Legal, Metal, Other bulky items, Reuse and preparing for reuse, Waste Prevention, Wood
Organisation: Recycle for Greater Manchester
Localisation: Manchester (United Kingdom)
The action took place in Manchester (and the other 8 districts) in 2011. Recycle for Greater Manchester (R4GM) proposed to develop a watch your waste week event to promote awareness of waste prevention activities in order to encourage a change in behavior by showing how small changes can make a difference without the need to change lifestyle. The watch your waste week campaign would also be a celebration event of what has been achieved to date to reduce waste across Greater Manchester.
Categories: Communication and Education, Paper, Waste Prevention
Organisation: Communal authority of Saint-Gilles
Main partners:
Localisation: Saint-Gilles (Belgium)
The communal authority of Saint-Gilles has for several years carried out waste reduction actions, and more widely sustainable development actions. During the Week for Waste Reduction in 2009, the commune took advantage of it to highlight what it was doing and to launch new initiatives, directed both at its personnel and at its inhabitants.
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Communication and Education, Technical and Research, Waste Prevention
Organisation: Communauté de communes de la Presqu’île de Crozon
Main partners:
Localisation: Crozon (France)
During the European Week for Waste Reduction in 2009 and to meet its own waste reduction objectives, the community of municipalities, in partnership with the Maison des Minéraux, ADEME and the Finistère Departmental Council, decided to devise an educational game to raise awareness among all residents about practices aimed at producing less waste.
Categories: Communication and Education, Reuse and preparing for reuse, Waste Prevention
Organisation: Ayuntamiento de Denia
Main partners:
Localisation: Denia (Spain)
The objective of the action was to give a second life to objects that people didn´t want anymore and would have ended up being a waste in the future.
Categories: Communication and Education, EEE, Glass, Metal, Other bulky items, Other Fractions, Plastic, Reuse and preparing for reuse, Waste Prevention, Wood
Organisation: Environmental Authority of the Barcelona Metropolitan Area (EMA-AMB)
Main partners:
Localisation: Tiana (Spain)
The entity’s “Better than new, 100% Old Campaign” made proposals for change aimed at the most sensitive citizens. The campaign encourages repair and reuse with a view to extending the useful life of the products along different routes: repairer network in districts, second hand and exchange markets, specific repair workshops, etc. (2010)
Categories: Communication and Education, Other Fractions, Reuse and preparing for reuse, Waste Prevention
Organisation: Municipality of Gallipoli
Main partners:
Localisation: Gallipoli (Italy)
The action was designed to reduce the pollution’s marine ecosystem caused by abandonment of fishing gear worn by the dissemination of good practices of reuse and recovery.
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Communication and Education, Eco Consumption, Other Fractions, Reuse and preparing for reuse, Waste Prevention
Organisation: Ayuntamiento de Donostia – San Sebastian
Main partners:
Localisation: Donostia (Spain)
Disposable nappies represent 2% of total municipal waste in San Sebastian. The objective of the initiative that took place in 2011 was therefore to reduce this type of waste and promote the use of reusable nappies.
Categories: Construction Material, Eco Consumption, Eco Design, EEE, Energy, Glass, Metal, Other bulky items, Other Fractions, Plastic, Product Service Systems, Recycling, Reuse and preparing for reuse, Technical and Research
Organisation: Institute of industrial and automation technologies
Main partners:
Localisation: Milan (Italy)
ITIA-CNR continuously supports the competitiveness of the manufacturing sector by bringing innovation in the factory. The enabling technologies and tools developed by their Research Departments are used to realize physical pilot factories which represent valuable platforms to support industrial research and the transfer of research results to companies. One example is a pilot plant for the De–and Remanufacturing of automotive mechatronic components. Some others research fields in addition to demanufacturing are Industrial Products-Service System and Product-Service Systems across Life Cycle or the future of 3D-printing.
Categories: Communication and Education, Eco Consumption, Industrial and Territorial Ecology, Material fractions, Reuse and preparing for reuse, Technical and Research
Organisation: Sunderland City Council
Main partners:
Localisation: Sunderland (United Kingdom)
The Sunderland Partnership is a collaboration between numerous public and private institutions, as well as the community and voluntary sectors, to improve the quality of life for all city inhabitants. One of its programmes oversees the active sharing of “end-of-life” products in order to reduce costs and avoid waste. Warp It, a software program that enables different organisations in a particular region to connect and exchange products, is used to achieve these objectives.
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Communication and Education, Economic, Glass, Governance, Strategy and Planning, Legal, Metal, Other Fractions, Paper, Plastic, Recycling, Technical and Research
Organisation: SNAGA (public waste management company in Ljubljana and its surrounding municipalities - Brezovica, Dobrova - Polhov Gradec, Dol pri Ljubljani, Ig, Horjul, Medvode, Škofljica, Velike Lašče and Vodice)
Localisation: Ljubljana (Slovenia)
Since 2008, the public waste management company replaced ordinary containers in the centre of Ljubljana with underground collection points, thus rationalising waste management and improving the appearance of the city. Glass, packaging and paper can be deposited by anyone, while a card is required to deposit organic and residual waste (available free of charge to all household users living in the area). The project proved to be extremely successful and is often presented as an example of good practice to other cities.
Categories: Biodiversity, Eco Design, Energy, Land use, Material fractions, Product Service Systems, Technical and Research, Water
Organisation: Bruxelles Environnement (IBGE-BIM)
Main partners:
Localisation: Brussels Region (Belgium)
The Brussels-Capital Region has granted a budget of € 60,000 to UCM to test a support module for SMEs (less than 10 people) over Product-Service System. From March 2014 to December 2014, seven companies (2 start-up and 5 existing companies) have followed the individual and collective support module. The selected SME starts with an individual interview or pre-diagnosis made by UCM to suggest to most relevant model/tool based on its profile. Then, the SME follows 6 collective sessions, complemented by two personal meetings with a consultant, over 10 months and a regular follow up by UCM.
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Communication and Education, Eco Consumption, Waste Prevention
Organisation: Municipalities of: Apeldoorn, Bronckhorst, Brummen, Deventer, Doesburg, Epe, Lochem and Zutphen
Main partners:
Localisation: Apeldoorn, Bronckhorst, Brummen, Deventer, Doesburg, Epe, Lochem and Zutphen
Circulus-Berkel, in partnership with municipal governments, organized an awareness raising and training program focusing on household waste, such as organic waste, kitchen waste and PMD (plastic, metal and cardboard drink packaging). The focus was placed on behavoural modification through communication. Additionally, an experiment was conducted on avoiding kitchen waste.
Categories: Eco Consumption, Economic, Paper, Recycling
Tags: procurement
Organisation: Autonomous Province of Bolzano Alto Adige
Localisation: Bolzano Alto Adige
This good practice factsheets forcuses on the acquisition of recycled paper reams by the administration of the province of Bolzano Alto Adige.
Categories: Construction Material, Eco Consumption, Eco Design, Economic, Energy, Glass, Metal, Plastic, Recycling, Waste Prevention, Wood
Tags: procurement
Organisation: State Property Office
Localisation: Region Liguria
This good practices factsheet concerns the renovation of the ex-INPS building (the Italian National Social Security Institution), including the reduction of total energy needs of the building, an improvement in the environmental quality of the interior and the use of recycled materials during the construction phase.
Categories: Eco Consumption, Economic, Energy, Other Fractions, Product Service Systems
Organisation: LIPOR – Intermunicipal Waste Management of Greater Porto
Localisation: Metropolitan Area of Porto
This good practices factsheet focuses on the tender for renting of imaging equipment to be used in the LIPOR facilities in Porto.
Categories: Eco Consumption, Economic, Paper, Recycling
Tags: procurement
Organisation: Metropolitan City of Rome Capital
Localisation: Rome
This good practices factsheet focuses on the tender for the acquisition of low environmental impact printed material by the Metropolitan City of Rome Capital.
Categories: Construction Material, Eco Consumption, Economic, Industrial and Territorial Ecology, Other Fractions, Recycling, Waste Prevention
Tags: procurement
Organisation: Municipality City of Rome Capital
Localisation: Fiumicino municipality
This circular economy good practice focuses on the procurement of low environmental impact road maintenance that has been implemented by the Municipality of Fiumicino, with recyled content asphalt, cold laid.
Categories: Communication and Education, EEE, Other bulky items, Reuse and preparing for reuse, Technical and Research, Wood
Organisation: Surrey County Council (SCC)
Main partners:
Localisation: Surrey (United Kingdom)
The aim of the Surrey Reuse Network (SRN) is to increase furniture reuse across the Surrey county and reduce the volume sent to landfill. More specifically, Surrey County Council (SCC) seeks to (1) enable the 5 networks of Furniture Reuse Organisations (FROs) to work as a county-wide network, delivering coordinated services that would optimise reuse and provide a consistent, high-quality service for residents; (2) build the capacity of individual FROs to handle greater volumes of furniture and white goods; and (3) raise public awareness of the potential for re-use and increase access to it.
Categories: Communication and Education, Eco Consumption, Other Fractions, Waste Prevention
Organisation: Apeldoorn; Lochem; Brummen; Provincie Gelderland
Main partners:
Localisation: Province of Gelderland
During the FoodBattles in Apeldoorn, Lochem, Brummen and Eerbeek it was revealed to be possible to decrease the amount of food waste by 20% in three weeks. The concept of FoodBattle is to raise awareness of both consumers and supermarkets on the measures that can be taken to reduce food waste.
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Business models, Collaborative Economy, Communication and Education, Construction Material, Eco Consumption, Eco Design, Eco Production, Economic, EEE, Energy, Glass, Governance, Strategy and Planning, Industrial and Territorial Ecology, Instruments, Land use, Legal, Metal, Other bulky items, Other Fractions, Paper, Plastic, Product Service Systems, Recycling, Resources, Reuse and preparing for reuse, Technical and Research, Waste Prevention, Water, Wood
Organisation: Amsterdam Municipality
Main partners:
With the support of:
With the financial support of:
Localisation: Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
The Municipality of Amsterdam has released several documents on their strategy for working towards a circular economy. This strategy includes innovative business models, awareness raising activities and resource management projects. This factsheet gives a brief summary and insight into some of these documents and the partner associations working to enact these strategies.
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Collaborative Economy, Communication and Education, Eco Production, Economic, Governance, Strategy and Planning, Land use, Recycling
Organisation: Amsterdam City Council
Main partners:
Localisation: Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
In January 2014 the City Council launched a food policy “Voedsel en Amsterdam” (Food and Amsterdam), in which the policy agenda was set by the themes education, sustainability, connecting initiatives and debate. In 2015 food and urban agriculture became part of the provisional Green Agenda, defined by the new alderman on Sustainability and Public Space. To visualize the various urban agriculture initiatives in the city of Amsterdam an interactive map was made in 2014 and actualized since.
Categories: Biodiversity, Biogenic fraction, Collaborative Economy, Communication and Education, Construction Material, Eco Design, Eco Production, EEE, Energy, Glass, Land use, Material fractions, Metal, Other bulky items, Other Fractions, Paper, Plastic, Product Service Systems, Technical and Research, Water, Wood
Organisation: hub.brussels (Brussels Agency for Business Support)
Main partners:
Localisation: Brussels Region (Belgium)
Greenlab (previously BSE Academy) has been created to develop the circular economy in the Brussels-Capital Region and create sustainable jobs. It is an “accelerator programme” for projects covering various areas in circular economy such as upcycling, renewable energy, economy of service functionality, sustainable food and many others with a focus on projects that have a technological component. hub.brussels takes care of the academy’s day-to-day running: over a six-month period, around 15 business start-ups (of 1-4 people with complementary profiles) receive guidance and support from hub.brussels itself and various experts and coaches. The aim of greenlab is to ensure that by the end of the programme those start-ups have a pilot project tested as well as a business plan and a financial plan in place.
Categories: Communication and Education, Eco Production, Economic, Energy, Instruments, Legal, Material fractions, Recycling, Reuse and preparing for reuse, Technical and Research, Waste Prevention
Organisation: Contarina (public waste management company)
Main partners:
Localisation: 50 municipalities within the province of Treviso, in the Veneto region (Italy)
The Contarina company was created in 1989 to manage waste collection for an increasing number of municipalities (today 50 municipalities) in the province of Treviso. Since 2015, Contarina has also been in charge of the post-mortem landfills after a 2000 decision by the Province of Treviso to close landfills. All this was done according to the systems and directions established by the Priula and Treviso consortia (to become the Consorzio de Bacino Priula in 2014). Subsequently, Contarina’s mandate expanded to include services such as road sweeping and the collection of special and hazardous waste, in addition to the collection and disposal of urban waste. Contarina’s success is based on a curbside collection system with a “pay as you throw” fee: a model that has been thoroughly tried and tested.
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Construction Material, EEE, Energy, Glass, Industrial and Territorial Ecology, Material fractions, Metal, Other bulky items, Other Fractions, Paper, Plastic, Technical and Research, Water, Wood
Organisation: Agència de Residus de Catalunya (Waste Agency of Catalonia)
Main partners:
Localisation: Catalonia (Spain) (provides service to companies all over Spain)
In 1991 the first Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Waste Agency and the Catalan Chambers was signed, and since then subsequent agreements have been in place to provide the By-product Exchange service with the support of the public administration.
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Business models, Collaborative Economy, Communication and Education, Construction Material, Eco Consumption, Eco Design, Eco Production, Economic, EEE, Glass, Governance, Strategy and Planning, Industrial and Territorial Ecology, Instruments, Land use, Legal, Material fractions, Metal, Other bulky items, Other Fractions, Paper, Plastic, Product Service Systems, Recycling, Reuse and preparing for reuse, Technical and Research, Waste Prevention, Wood
Organisation: 1) The Scottish Government; 2)Zero Waste Scotland
Main partners:
Scottish Government agencies including
Financial support of:
Localisation: Scotland (UK)
Zero Waste Scotland (ZWS) was a programme set up in 2010 to support the implementation of the Scottish Government’s Zero Waste Plan. In 2014, ZWS became an independent not-for-profit company, funded by the Scottish Government to deliver circular economy and low carbon policy priorities. Scotland has realised the benefits of being a frontrunner in waste reduction and the government has consistently supported local authorities to drive up recycling rates. This ambition for a Zero Waste society evolved into strong support for a Circular Economy.
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Eco Production, Industrial and Territorial Ecology, Technical and Research
Organisation: Bruxelles Environnement (Brussels Environment administration)
Main partners:
Localisation: Brussels Region (Belgium)
ResilieNtWEB is a strategic support programme for SMEs to help them increase their resilience, i.e. their ability to anticipate market changes, adjust to them and learn from the process. The project partners are all innovation support actors in the North-West Europe area, aiming to make local economies more resilient and sustainable. A first objective was to make the business case of existing SME more resilient by using the resilient design toolkit. This has delivered short term eco-innovation action plan approved by all SME. A second objective was to test a new collaborative approach by clustering companies on a central innovative project which is the full integration of a greenhouse with building applying the “close the loop” principle. This project was co-funded by Interreg IVB, which promotes better integration within the Union of large regions in different countries facing similar problems. It involves national, regional and local organisations.
Categories: Biodiversity, Collaborative Economy, Communication and Education, Eco Design, Eco Production, Energy, Land use, Product Service Systems, Resources, Technical and Research, Water
Organisation: Bruxelles Environnement (Brussels Environment administration)
Main partners:
Localisation: North Western Europe
ResilieNtWEB is a strategic support programme for SMEs to help them increase their resilience, i.e. their ability to anticipate market changes, adjust to them and learn from the process. The project partners are all innovation support actors in the North-West Europe area, aiming to make local economies more resilient and sustainable. ResilieNtWEB has developed coaching tools for enterprises to become more innovative and sustainable in the continuously changing environmental, economic and social context. This project was co-funded by the Interreg IVB programme, which promotes better integration within the Union of large regions in different countries facing similar problems. It involves national, regional and local organisations.
Categories: Eco Design, Eco Production, Energy, Material fractions, Technical and Research, Water
Organisation: ADEME (public agency in the areas of the environment, energy and sustainable development)
Main partners:
Localisation: Auvergne Rhônes Alpes (France)
ADEME, in association with the Rhône Alpes region (now Auvergne Rhône Alpes region) and the Pôle Eco-conception, created in 2009 and financed a stakeholder active on eco-design. This organization, in partnership with ADEME proposes to animate workshops for businesses around 2 games: “BtoGreen” and “In the Loop“. The objectives are to understand the strategic value of eco-innovation and to get the knowledge of key steps and issues regarding material resources management and how to prevent /mitigate these issues.
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Energy, Industrial and Territorial Ecology, Technical and Research, Water
Organisation: IDEA (Economic Development and Planning actor of various municipalities of Mons-Borinage and Centre)
Main partners:
Localisation: Hainaut (Belgium)
The eco-zoning Tertre is a project initiated by the Walloon Minister of Economy via “a call for project”. This call fits in a territorial approach named “Heart of Hainaut, energy center”. This eco-zoning project is implemented by the creation of several working groups (WG) with different themes. Each working group is led by a project manager selected from the partners. IDEA, an economic actor of 27 municipalities, coordinates the work done, manages meetings, groups’ animation, etc.
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Construction Material, Energy, Industrial and Territorial Ecology, Other Fractions, Technical and Research, Water, Wood
Organisation: Citydev.brussels - Brussels Regional Development Agency (helps businesses find sites in the Brussels-Capital Region. It also builds private homes as part of urban renewal projects)
Main partners:
Localisation: Brussels (Belgium)
As part of an Interreg IVB project (C2C BIZZ), Citydev.brussels and its technical sub-contractor EcoRes addressed material and energy flows on a business site, at company level. New ‘material’ matches were made between companies on site. The experiences were used to develop the Continuous Loop Tool, a database for companies where they can add their waste materials and the resources they need in order to find matches. The Irisphere program will continue after the end of C2C BIZZ on a larger scale thanks to the ERDF.
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Eco Consumption, Eco Production, Governance, Strategy and Planning, Recycling, Reuse and preparing for reuse, Waste Prevention
Organisation: 1) Bruxelles Environnement – Brussels Environment (Environment public administration of Brussels-Capital Region); 2) Bruxelles Economie-Emploi (Economy and jobs public administration of Brussels-Capital Region)
Main partners:
Financial support of:
Localisation: Brussels-Capital Region (BE)
The objective of the Regional Programme for a Circular Economy (Programme Régional d’Economie circulaire – PREC) is to encourage the transformation of the linear economy into a circular economy. This programme focuses on some of the main sectors for Brussels including sustainable food. Moreover, the food topic is specifically addressed by the GoodFood strategy for a more sustainable system of food consumption and production. By rethinking the food chain, the GoodFood strategy (also called ‘GoodFood Brussels’) aims to reduce waste and increase the amount of food grown locally.
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Communication and Education, Eco Consumption, Energy, Technical and Research, Waste Prevention, Water
Organisation: Brussels Environment
Main partners:
Localisation: Brussels (Belgium)
“Good Food Canteens” is a project that supports a shift towards sustainable food in the Brussels-Capital Region in institutional kitchens, including kitchens in nurseries, schools, companies, care homes and other administrations whether they are under their own management or that of an outside catering company.
Categories: Construction Material, Eco Production, Economic, Energy, Industrial and Territorial Ecology, Recycling
Organisation: Olympic Delivery Authority (England)
Localisation: London (United Kingdom)
The London bid to host the 2012 Games set out a plan for how the Games could play a major role in the revitalisation of east London. Equally important was to achieve this in a sustainable manner, provide value for money, and to leave a lasting legacy for east London. The Olympic Delivery Authority’s (ODA) central job was to deliver venues, facilities and infrastructure and transport in a way that ‘maximised the delivery of sustainable objectives, on time and within the available budget’. This included the supply of the innitially estimated 500,000 m3 of ready-mix concrete required to build both the sporting venues and supporting infrastructure.
Categories: Eco Consumption, Economic, Energy, Legal, Material fractions, Technical and Research
Tags: procurement
Organisation: Rijkswaterstaat (Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment)
Localisation: The Netherlands
In 2010, the Dutch House of Commons decided that all public authorities in the Netherlands must implement 100% sustainable procurement as of 2015, which constitutes the inclusion of green criteria in all tenders. Rijkswaterstaat (RWS) is the Department of Public Works within the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment. RWS aims to use green public procurement to challenge and encourage contractors and suppliers to provide added value through the delivery of sustainable working practices, green materials, energy efficiency and reduced carbon emissions.
In order to achieve these objectives, RWS uses functional specifications for infrastructure projects, together with tools to gauge bidders’ commitments to reducing carbon emissions within projects and to assess the life cycle environmental impacts of the materials they propose to use. These commitments and impacts are monetised within the award phase of the tender and quoted prices are adjusted accordingly.
Categories: Construction Material, Eco Consumption, Economic, Energy
Organisation: SPRILUR S.A.(Department of Economic Development and Competitiveness, Basque Government)
Localisation: Basque Country
SPRILUR S.A. is a public authority, which is integrated in the Department of Economic Development and Competitiveness of the Basque Government. SPRILURs intervention in the business market is aimed at guaranteeing the provision of public land and sufficient good quality industrial buildings to meet demand, while promoting industrial and business activity as a source of employment and wealth in the Basque Country.
Since 2009, within all tenders for the construction, restoration and design of industrial buildings (from the design stage to the execution of works), SPRILUR include as part of the award criteria, the degree of sustainability of the proposed project, which is based on the application of guides for the sustainable development of industrial buildings and urban development projects.
Categories: Eco Consumption, Economic, Energy, Legal, Paper, Recycling, Wood
Organisation: Badalona City Council (Spain)
Main partners:
Localisation: Badalona (Spain)
Six schools were chosen to participate in a project aimed at analysing and developing best practice guidelines for the green procurement of five product groups: school materials, building maintenance, cleaning, food and IT products. In addition, the City Council procured a kit of green school materials available to the six participating schools on demand.
Categories: Eco Consumption, Economic, Glass, Legal, Metal, Plastic, Recycling, Reuse and preparing for reuse, Waste Prevention, Wood
Tags: procurement
Organisation: City of Venlo (The Netherlands)
Localisation: Venlo (Netherlands)
After discarding rehabilitation of the old city hall building as an option due to the bad technical condition of the building and high maintenance costs, the city of Venlo decided to demolish the old building and erect a new city hall that would satisfy the current needs of accessibility and functionality, while delivering at the same time a positive contribution to the town, the staff, the environment and the economy. A design and build competition was launched in 2009, in which designers were asked to present their vision of a sustainable building, making sure to include the use of appropriate safe and healthy materials which can be recycled after their lifetime.This brief focuses on the tender process of the office furniture.
Categories: Construction Material, Eco Design, Economic, Energy, Glass, Legal, Metal, Wood
Organisation: Cornwall Council (United Kingdom)
Localisation: Cornwall (United Kingdom)
In 2011 Cornwall had around 6,000 bus stops with a wide range of associated shelters and signs. A programme of improvements to the quality and sustainability of this transport infrastructure, based on need and capacity, was created. The sustainable procurement of bus shelters was conducted in three stages: design; prototype development; and large scale production. This example focuses on the design stage.
Categories: Eco Design, Economic, Energy, Legal, Reuse and preparing for reuse, Water
Organisation: Greater London Authority (United Kingdom)
Localisation: London Borough of Havering (United Kingdom)
In 2006, the need for a new fire station serving the growing London Borough of Havering was identified. A site was selected which allowed for the conversion of three existing industrial units, as well as meeting operational requirements. The design brief focused on sustainability principles including reuse of the existing structures, lower energy and water consumption and the production of renewable energy.
Categories: Economic, Glass, Legal, Wood
Organisation: University of Malta (Malta)
Main partners:
Regional Activity Center on Cleaner Production (RAC/CP)
Inèdit Innovació Consultancy Company
Localisation: Campus of the University of Malta (Msida, Valetta and Gozo)
The University of Malta has numerous on campus facilities catering for 11,000 students. The University’s Estate and Works Department is responsible for carrying out the internal finishing works for the new extension to the building which houses the lecture halls of the Faculty of Economics, Management and Accountancy (FEMA). The Department, in collaboration with the University’s Procurement Directorate, sought to deliver the works using environmentally-friendly construction materials and products.
Categories: Construction Material, Eco Consumption, Economic, Energy, Glass, Legal, Metal, Plastic, Wood
Organisation: Gipuzkoa provincial council (Basque Country, Spain)
Localisation: San Sebastian (Spain)
The Gipuzkoa Council wished to award a maintenance contract for two buildings in Donostia-San Sebastian, one residential and one administrative. The object of the contract was defined to include the environmental sustainability of the services being provided (exterior and internal maintenance of all building systems and facilities).
Categories: Biodiversity, Biogenic fraction, Construction Material, Eco Design, EEE, Energy, Glass, Land use, Metal, Other bulky items, Other Fractions, Paper, Plastic, Resources, Technical and Research, Water, Wood
Organisation: OVAM (Public Waste Agency of Flanders)
Main partners:
Localisation: Mechelen (Belgium)
OVAM created an ecodesign service within its facitlity. It developed 3 main tools: Ecolizer (estimation of the environmental impact of a product design), OVAM SIS Toolkit (Sustainable Innovation System – integration of sustainability principles into innovation and design processes), EHE-kit (Implementation of eco-design in higher education). In addition OVAM developed 3 specific activities to boost ecodesign in Flanders: Awards for designers, research and collection of good examples, launch of the European Network of Ecodesign Centres (ENEC).
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Eco Production, Economic, Energy, Legal, Plastic, Waste Prevention
Organisation: East Ayrshire Council
Localisation: East Ayrshire (Scotland)
East Ayrshire was one of the first councils in the UK to change its procurement practices to reflect the Soil Association’s guidelines on sustainable food. In a new contract advertised in 2008, the council wished to offer more sustainable school meals, including reductions in packaging waste.
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Communication and Education, Economic, Legal, Plastic, Waste Prevention
Tags: procurement
Organisation: City of Turin (Italy)
Localisation: Turin (Italy)
School catering represents a significant part of the procurement budget for the City of Turin. Packaging waste reduction and fractions separate collection are amongst the new measures introduced for more sustainable catering services.
Categories: Construction Material, Economic, Legal, Recycling
Tags: procurement
Organisation: City of Hamburg (Germany)
Localisation: Hamburg (Germany)
In Hamburg, green public procurement principles are included in the City’s overarching procurement policy. Additional environmental contract requirements are imposed by the City specifically for road construction tenders.
Hamburg has taken a significant step forward to encourage an increase of recycling rates in construction materials by establishing an online exchange for soil, debris and construction materials that aims to support procurement of recycled asphalt.
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Business models, Collaborative Economy, Communication and Education, Construction Material, Eco Consumption, Eco Design, Eco Production, Economic, EEE, Glass, Governance, Strategy and Planning, Industrial and Territorial Ecology, Instruments, Legal, Material fractions, Metal, Other bulky items, Other Fractions, Paper, Plastic, Product Service Systems, Recycling, Reuse and preparing for reuse, Technical and Research, Waste Prevention, Wood
Organisation: 1) Société Régionale d'Investissement de Wallonie (public agency to finance businesses) 2) Agence pour l’Entreprise et l’Innovation (public agency for entrepreneurship and innovation) 3) Office Wallon des déchets (public agency for waste management)
Main partners:
Localisation: Wallonia (BE)
The Marshall Plan 4.0 (2015-2019) which follows the Marshall Plan 2.Green (2009-2014) is the economic redeployment program for Wallonia. It intend to refocus the priorities of this economic restructuring program around the digital economy and circular economy. The Marshall Plan 4.0 develops a transverse axis dedicated to the circular economy as part of the Competitiveness Cluster Policy, with a specific focus on SMEs, and in collaboration with relevant actors. This focuses on the joint use of material flows and energy.
Circular economy is also integrated throughout different plans and current policies, among which:
– Regional policy statement 2014–2019
– Walloon Smart Specialization Strategy
– 2nd Walloon Sustainable Development strategy (draft)
Categories: Construction Material, Industrial and Territorial Ecology, Reuse and preparing for reuse, Technical and Research
Organisation: Bruxelles Environnement (Brussels Environment administration)
Main partners:
Localisation: Brussels (Belgium)
On a practical level, Rotor, a collective of architects and engineers, handles the conception and realization of design and architectural projects. On a theoretical level, Rotor develops strategic advices on design, material resources, and waste through research, and reports, organising exhibitions and conferences. Since 2014, the spin-off Rotor Deconstruction has been launched, a company that organizes the dismantling and selling of reusable construction components coming from the insides of large-scale, modern buildings.
Categories: Biodiversity, Collaborative Economy, Communication and Education, Construction Material, Economic, EEE, Energy, Glass, Land use, Metal, Other bulky items, Other Fractions, Paper, Plastic, Water, Wood
Organisation: Barcelona City Council
Main partners:
Localisation: Barcelone (Spain)
Barcelona is becoming a strong hub for collaborative consumption/economy in various domain such as mobility, tourism, clothes, stuff, skills, finances, etc.
Categories: Metal, Paper, Plastic, Recycling, Technical and Research
Organisation: Flemish government
Main partners:
Localisation: Flanders (BE)
PMD stands for Plastic bottles and flasks, Metal packaging and Drink cartons. These waste streams are collected together in a transparent blue bag. The bags are collected door to door on a two weekly basis, as well as on the civic amenity sites. Afterwards the bags are sorted out in a number of different waste streams and sent to recycling facilities.
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Construction Material, Economic, EEE, Glass, Metal, Paper, Plastic, Recycling, Wood
Organisation: Flemish government
Main partners:
Localisation: Flanders (BE)
Citizens are charged for the collection and treatment of the MSW, based on the amount they trow away. This principle is in Flanders combined with Differentiated Tariffs (DifTar) to make residual and bulky waste more expensive than selective collected waste streams.
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Construction Material, Economic, EEE, Glass, Legal, Metal, Paper, Plastic, Recycling, Wood
Organisation: Flemish government
Main partners:
Localisation: Flanders (BE)
The Flemish Government implements incineration and landfill restrictions. As a result, landfilling of bio-waste, unsorted waste, separated waste suitable for recycling and combustible waste are banned. Incineration of separated waste streams and unsorted waste are also banned.
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Technical and Research, Waste Prevention
Organisation: Wiener Tafel
Localisation: Vienna (Austria)
The Wiener Tafel is a food distribution service which was founded in 1999 in Vienna, Austria, following the German example of such as service, Die Tafeln.
Categories: Communication and Education, Other Fractions, Reuse and preparing for reuse, Technical and Research
Organisation: Highland Real Nappy Project (HNRP)
Localisation: Highland Council area (UK)
The Highland Real Nappy Project (HNRP) started in November 2001 and has built up a network of dedicated and experienced volunteers who promote the benefits of real nappy use across the Highland Council area.
Categories: Other bulky items, Reuse and preparing for reuse, Technical and Research, Waste Prevention
Organisation: Cylch (Wales Community Recycling Network)
Localisation: North Wales (UK)
Cylch (Wales Community Recycling Network) is operating a pilot scheme in North Wales with the objective to reduce the amount of textiles going to landfill, and to ensure that communities benefit from textiles reuse and recycling.
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Communication and Education, Waste Prevention
Organisation: LIPOR - Intermunicipal Waste Management of Greater Porto
Localisation: Greater Porto (Portugal)
In 2007, LIPOR (Porto inter-municipality) set up “Terra à Terra – Home Composting Project” that aims to promote organic waste reduction at households, schools, institutions and companies of Lipor’s Municipalities.
Categories: EEE, Glass, Metal, Other bulky items, Plastic, Reuse and preparing for reuse, Wood
Organisation: SOFA Project
Localisation: Bristol (UK)
“SOFA Project” was founded in Bristol in 1982 as the ‘Shifting Old Furniture Around’ project and has flourished ever since. “SOFA Project” is a social enterprise that supplies second hand furniture, household goods and domestic electrical appliances to people in conditions of need.
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Technical and Research, Waste Prevention
Organisation: Sweden
Localisation: Sweden
Since 2005 it is prohibited in Sweden to deposit bio waste at landfills. The separate collection and treatment target is 35% of the municipal bio waste by 2010, including home composting.
Categories: Communication and Education, Plastic, Technical and Research, Waste Prevention
Organisation: Piemonte region
Localisation: Piemonte region (Italy)
In July 2005, the Piemonte region launched the Self Service Detergents Project in order to reduce detergents packaging waste production.
Categories: Communication and Education, Eco Consumption, Other Fractions, Technical and Research
Organisation: Inter-municipality EcoWerf
Localisation: EcoWerf, Flanders region (Belgium)
For years now the inter-municipality EcoWerf promotes, with the support from the province of Flemish Brabant, the reusable diaper. Already 16 municipalities, part of EcoWerf, currently financially support the purchase of diapers.
Categories: Communication and Education, Eco Consumption, Other Fractions, Reuse and preparing for reuse, Technical and Research
Organisation: Municipality of Sant Cugat del Vallès
Localisation: Sant Cugat del Vallès, Catalonia (Spain)
In the municipality of Sant Cugat del Vallès around 2% of the municipal waste comes from nappies. In order to reduce waste from nappies Sant Cugat municipality initiated in 2007, with the support of the Agencia de Residuos de Cataluña, a pilot project on reusable nappies in 2 nurseries.
Categories: Construction Material, Other Fractions, Reuse and preparing for reuse, Technical and Research
Organisation: Resource Futures
Localisation: United Kingdom
In 1992 SWAP (now Resource Futures) conducted research into household hazardous waste through the Waste Wagon project. As a result of this research the first local Community RePaint scheme was established and subsequently a national network of local schemes emerged.
Categories: EEE, Glass, Metal, Other bulky items, Plastic, Reuse and preparing for reuse, Technical and Research, Wood
Organisation: R.U.S.Z. - Reparatur und Service Zentrum
Localisation: Vienna (Austria)
Since 1998, Vienna supports financially the repair center R.U.S.Z. – Reparatur und Service Zentrum. At the R.U.S.Z. WEEE products diverted from shredder treatment are collected and repaired. Electronic waste that can be repaired is reused and sold as second hand equipment.
Categories: Communication and Education, Eco Consumption, Plastic, Technical and Research, Waste Prevention, Water
Organisation: Municipality of Castelfidardo (Italy)
Localisation: Castelfidardo (Italy)
Since January 2010 the municipality of Castelfidardo (Italy) has installed a public water fountain with a carbon filter system in order to dispense mineral and sparkling water to its inhabitants.
Categories: Communication and Education, Paper, Waste Prevention
Organisation: AMIAT
Localisation: Turin (Italy)
The public company AMIAT, managed by the city of Turin, started in 2008 a campaign to encourage paper use reduction in their offices. The campaign was addressed to all 350 employees of AMIAT.
Categories: Communication and Education, Glass, Metal, Paper, Plastic, Waste Prevention
Organisation: Municipalities of Suzzara, Mogliano Veneto and Valdagno (Italy)
Localisation: Suzzara, Mogliano and Valdagno (Italy)
The municipalities of Suzzara, Mogliano Veneto and Valdagno in Italy have developed a packaging waste reduction campaign with the help of a communication company « Achab group ». The retailers had to adopt at least 3 waste reduction practices.
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Recycling, Technical and Research, Waste Prevention
Organisation: The Royal Parks
Localisation: London (UK)
Since 2002 as part of ISO 14001 registration ‘The Royal Parks’ (Central London) has formally carried out the composting of green waste in the Central Royal Parks (Hyde, St James’s and The Green Parks and Kensington Gardens). The project aimed to demonstrate the sustainable use of green waste arising and to recycle a target of 100% of uncontaminated green waste by the end of 2005, including expired perennial and bedding planting.
Categories: Energy, Paper, Technical and Research, Waste Prevention
Organisation: Brussels Environment (IBGE-BIM)
Localisation: Brussels Capital Region (Belgium)
At the end of 2003, the Brussels Administration for Environment (IBGE-BIM) initiated a “Program of office dematerialisation actions” aiming to reduce office paper and energy consumption.
Categories: Glass, Metal, Paper, Plastic, Recycling, Technical and Research
Organisation: Syndicat Emeraude – Montmorency Valley Syndicate for the treatment of household waste
Main partners:
Localisation: Montmorency Valley (FR)
To overcome difficulties linked with high density and vertical housing, the first underground containers in this area were implemented in 2006 as a pilot project. Following the success of the pilot action, there was an increasing demand on the territory.
Categories: EEE, Glass, Metal, Other bulky items, Plastic, Recycling, Reuse and preparing for reuse, Technical and Research, Wood
Organisation: SYELOM – Hauts-de-Seine Syndicate for the treatment of household waste
Main partners:
Localisation: Haut-de-Seine (FR)
This initiative focuses on the implementation of a network of mobile civic amenity sites for the municipalities wishing to offer this service to their population.
Categories: EEE, Glass, Metal, Other bulky items, Plastic, Recycling, Reuse and preparing for reuse, Technical and Research, Wood
Organisation: SYCTOM - Paris metropolitan area's syndicate for the treatment of household waste
Main partners:
Localisation: Paris metropolitan area (FR)
This initiative presents the different steps that were taken by the SYCTOM to increase the recovery rate of bulky waste over the past 10 years. It will especially focus on the modifications brought to the sorting processes, with the use of pre-sorting centres to remove part of the contamination.
Categories: Other Fractions, Recycling, Technical and Research
Organisation: Odense Waste Management Company
Main partners:
Localisation: Odense (DK)
The objective of the collection of hazardous household waste is to offer easy ways for the citizens to get rid of their hazardous waste by the collection system which suits them best.
Categories: Paper, Recycling, Technical and Research
Organisation: Odense Waste Management Company
Main partners:
Localisation: Odense (DK)
Paper waste door-to-door collection has been implemented since 2003 in order to offer an easy way for the citizens to get rid of their paper waste, replacing the traditional collection via bring banks and civic amenity sites.
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Glass, Metal, Paper, Plastic, Recycling, Technical and Research
Organisation: Municipality of Lisbon
Localisation: Lisbon (PT)
In 2003, the door-to-door selective collection of waste fractions was implemented in households, in substitution of the existing multimaterial bring bank system.
Categories: Construction Material, EEE, Glass, Metal, Other bulky items, Plastic, Recycling, Technical and Research, Wood
Organisation: Municipality of Lisbon
Localisation: Lisbon (PT)
Bulky waste collection in Lisbon is made on citizens’ request, through a call service (by e-mail, website or in person), after an appointment with the municipal services.
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Economic, EEE, Glass, Metal, Paper, Plastic, Recycling
Organisation: Irish Department of Environment, Community & Local Government
Main partners:
Localisation: Ireland (IE)
A significant number of household collectors, both within this Region and nationally, have implemented a pay-per-weight charging system in order to comply with the pay-by-weight charging system required in their waste collection permit since 2005.
Categories: Glass, Metal, Paper, Plastic, Recycling, Technical and Research
Organisation: Irish Department of Environment, Community & Local Government
Main partners:
Localisation: Ireland (IE)
The collection of a number of recyclable waste sources in one recycling bin i.e. cardboard, paper, plastic and cans has been undertaken in Ireland since 2001.
Categories: Communication and Education, Economic, Other Fractions, Recycling, Technical and Research
Organisation: AFIS
Localisation: Greece (EL)
Starting from 2005, separate collection of batteries started in Greece under teh responsibility of AFIS, a non-profit organization with the aim to collect and recycle portable batteries and accumulators in order to fulfill the national obligation to do so.
Categories: Collaborative Economy, Communication and Education, Construction Material, Eco Production, Economic, Industrial and Territorial Ecology, Legal, Recycling, Reuse and preparing for reuse, Technical and Research, Waste Prevention
Organisation: EUROGYPSUM, The European Association of plaster and plasterboard manufacturers
Main partners:
Universities
Laboratory
Demolition companies
Recycling companies
Gypsum manufacturing companies
Localisation: Pilot projects: 1) Belgium: Brussels and Antwerp; 2) France: Paris and Vaujours; 3) France: Levallois Perret and Auneuil; 4) Germany: Graben and Iphofen; the Netherlands: Werkendam; 5) UK: London, Avonmouth and Bristol
The GtoG project focused on eight EU target countries (Belgium, France, Germany, Greece, Poland, Spain, the Netherlands and the UK); estimating that around 1,150,000 tons of plasterboard waste was generated in 2012. In most of these European countries, a low recycling rate of gypsum waste was observed. The aim of the GtoG project was to produce plasterboard with up to 30% content of recycled gypsum coming from both production and C&D waste.
Categories: Communication and Education, Economic, Other Fractions, Recycling, Technical and Research
Organisation: Municipality of Sofia
Main partners:
Localisation: Sofia (BG)
In 2010 Sofia Municipality launched a system for separate collection of waste batteries and accumulators in the municipality, with the assistance of recovery organisations “Ecobattery” and “UBARecycling”.
Categories: Communication and Education, Economic, EEE, Recycling, Technical and Research
Organisation: Municipality of Sofia
Main partners:
Localisation: Sofia (BG)
In 2009, Sofia Municipality has started a system for WEEE separate collection of, with the assistance of the recovery organisation “Eltechresource”. In April 2011, a contract with another recovery organisation “Ecobultech” has been signed for service on 2 of the 24 regions of Sofia Municipality. Both organisations are obliged to establish systems for separate collection on request in the regions of Sofia Municipality where they operate.
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Communication and Education, Eco Consumption, EEE, Glass, Metal, Paper, Plastic, Recycling, Reuse and preparing for reuse, Waste Prevention
Organisation: Municipality of Tallinn
Main partners:
Localisation: Estonia (EE)
Waste Wolf (in Estonian Prügihunt) is the City of Tallinn’s waste awareness campaign, which was organized since 2003. The waste awareness mascot also bears the same name. The goal of the campaign is to make the behaviour of the residents of Tallinn more environmentally friendly. Public events, competitions, information seminars and public surveys are carried out within the framework of the waste awareness campaign, and excursions to landfills and waste stations are organized.
Categories: Biodiversity, Biogenic fraction, Collaborative Economy, Communication and Education, Construction Material, Eco Consumption, Eco Design, Eco Production, Economic, EEE, Energy, Glass, Governance, Strategy and Planning, Industrial and Territorial Ecology, Land use, Legal, Metal, Other bulky items, Other Fractions, Paper, Plastic, Product Service Systems, Recycling, Reuse and preparing for reuse, Technical and Research, Waste Prevention, Water, Wood
Organisation: 1) Brussels Environment; 2) Impulse
Main partners:
Localisation: Brussels-Capital Region (BE)
The objective of the Regional Programme for a Circular Economy (Programme Régional d’Economie circulaire – PREC) is to encourage the transformation of the linear economy into a circular economy, developing a strategic and operational vision of the environment as a resource creating local employment. This can be achieved in particular by relocating economic activity through short circuits in order to obtain a chain of value as complete as possible for the Brussels Capital-Region.
Categories: Collaborative Economy, Communication and Education, Construction Material, Eco Consumption, Eco Design, Eco Production, Economic, Glass, Governance, Strategy and Planning, Legal, Metal, Other bulky items, Other Fractions, Plastic, Product Service Systems, Recycling, Reuse and preparing for reuse, Technical and Research, Waste Prevention, Wood
Organisation: Ferrara Municipality
Main partners:
Localisation: Ferrara (IT)
Through the project LOWaste (Local waste market for second life products), Ferrara is experiencing a pattern of circular economy based on waste prevention, products reuse and material recycling supported by a public-private partnership framework. Starting from some pilot studies and tests, the project laid down the foundation for – and has seen the emergence of – a genuine local circular economy district with a focus on waste management in a circular economy.
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Business models, Collaborative Economy, Communication and Education, Construction Material, Eco Consumption, Eco Design, Eco Production, Economic, EEE, Glass, Governance, Strategy and Planning, Industrial and Territorial Ecology, Instruments, Legal, Material fractions, Metal, Other bulky items, Other Fractions, Paper, Plastic, Product Service Systems, Recycling, Reuse and preparing for reuse, Technical and Research, Waste Prevention, Wood
Organisation: Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region (Economical and Environmental Directorate)
Main partners:
Localisation: Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (FR)
The former Rhône-Alpes Region (now integrated in the larger Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region) dedicated several of its policies – economic development, company’s environmental management, waste management, Eco-innovation, research and training – toward a Circular Economy. Within an ‘Integrated Circular Economy Regional Project’, the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region coordinates four different projects to make it possible: Industrial and Territorial Ecology, INNOV’R, Sindra, and Eco-designed Collective Buildings. Those four fields of intervention are very focused on businesses and industries, apart from the policy about hazardous waste which also includes a part involving the civil community. Those policies also aim at respecting the Regional Hazardous Waste Elimination Plan. Since the French territorial reform in 2015 leading to the creation of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Region, a network on circular economy has also been established.
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Business models, Collaborative Economy, Communication and Education, Construction Material, Eco Consumption, Eco Design, Eco Production, Economic, EEE, Glass, Governance, Strategy and Planning, Industrial and Territorial Ecology, Instruments, Legal, Material fractions, Metal, Other bulky items, Other Fractions, Paper, Plastic, Product Service Systems, Recycling, Reuse and preparing for reuse, Technical and Research, Waste Prevention, Wood
Organisation: 1) - Nord-Pas de Calais Region; 2) Chamber of Commerce and Industry – Nord de France Region
Main partners:
Localisation: Nord-Pas de Calais (FR)
The Master Plan is a strategic document conducted by Jeremy Rifkin and his team to lead the Nord-Pas de Calais Region towards the Third Industrial Revolution. Taking into account the regional specificities, it contains advices about the appropriate policies to apply.
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Business models, Collaborative Economy, Communication and Education, Construction Material, Eco Consumption, Eco Design, Eco Production, Economic, EEE, Glass, Governance, Strategy and Planning, Industrial and Territorial Ecology, Instruments, Legal, Material fractions, Metal, Other bulky items, Other Fractions, Paper, Plastic, Product Service Systems, Recycling, Reuse and preparing for reuse, Technical and Research, Waste Prevention, Wood
Organisation: 1) Government of Flanders; 2) Flemish Public Waste Agency (OVAM)
Main partners:
Localisation: Flanders (BE)
Circular Flanders is the result of the merger of Plan C, the Flanders’ Materials Programme and SuMMa. The Government of Flanders has set the circular economy as one of the seven transition priorities in its transversal policy paper, “Vision 2050, a long-term strategy for Flanders” and appointed Circular Flanders to continue the circular economy as a transition priority. Circular Flanders is embedded in OVAM, the motor for the transition to a circular economy.
Categories: Communication and Education, Paper, Waste Prevention
Organisation: North London Waste Agency (NLWA)
Localisation: North London (UK)
The North London Waste Prevention Plan 2010-12 proposes an action to run a ‘No Junk Mail’ programme, which message was promoted between August and September 2010.
Categories: Legal, Paper, Technical and Research, Waste Prevention
Organisation: Brussels Environment (IBGE-BIM)
Localisation: Brussels Capital Region (Belgium)
Since 1999, a sticker is available for the mailbox of Brussels residents by which they can choose not to receive unaddressed advertisements and/or free newspapers. The sticker received legal backing through a regional decree, which entitles individuals to file a complaint if they receive unwanted advertising and/or newspapers in their mailbox despite having placed the sticker.
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Communication and Education, Technical and Research, Waste Prevention
Organisation: LIPOR - Intermunicipal Waste Management of Greater Porto
Localisation: Greater Porto (Portugal)
The Menu Dose Certa project (right serving menu), implemented by Porto’s waste management organisation LIPOR, aims to reduce food waste in restaurants and to change attitudes and behaviours by raising awareness on the problem of food waste. The goal is to support restaurants in creating menus that generate notably less food waste.
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Legal, Waste Prevention
Organisation: Montgomery County (USA)
Localisation: Montgomery County, Maryland (USA)
The Montgomery County DEP launched its yard trimmings source reduction program over a 2-year period (1994 to 1995), during which it targeted 180,000 single family homes, 250 landscape and lawn service companies, 30,000 multifamily and commercial property managers, conservation groups, homeowner associations, garden clubs, nature centres, public gardens, and nurseries.
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Glass, Legal, Paper, Plastic, Technical and Research, Waste Prevention
Organisation: Marks & Spencer
Localisation: United Kingdom
Retailer Marks & Spencer launched ‘Plan A’ in January 2007, setting out 100 commitments to achieve in 5 years. Through Plan A, M&S is working with its customers and suppliers to combat climate change, reduce waste, use sustainable raw materials, trade ethically, and help its customers to lead healthier lifestyles
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Communication and Education, Waste Prevention
Organisation: North-London Waste Authority (NLWA)
Main partners:
Waste and Resources Action Program (WRAP)
Localisation: North London (UK)
To tackle increasing food waste arising in north London, the North London Waste Authority (NLWA) decided to run a Love Food Hate Waste Campaign (national campaign) which was funded by the Waste and Resources Action Program (WRAP). The activities were implemented from June 2009 to March 2010.
Categories: EEE, Glass, Legal, Metal, Other bulky items, Plastic, Reuse and preparing for reuse, Wood
Organisation: Kringloopcentra
Main partners:
OVAM
Localisation: Flanders region (Belgium)
The system of Reuse Centres originated in the Netherlands and was imported to Flanders in the early 1990s. Reuse is the second priority in the Flemish waste policy, following prevention.
Categories: Economic, Plastic, Waste Prevention
Organisation: Irish Government
Localisation: Ireland
The Irish plastic bag levy was introduced in March 2002 under the Waste Management Regulations 2001 (15 cent per bag, increased to 22 cent in 2007). The Irish Government’s intention was to set a rate of tax which would act to change consumer behaviour, i.e. discourage the use of single-use plastic bags
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Communication and Education, Legal, Technical and Research, Waste Prevention
Organisation: Vlaco
Localisation: Flanders region (Belgium)
Flanders has since 1992 gradually, through renewed Household Waste Management Plans (HWMP), implemented a comprehensive HC programme. In this plans HC is considered as waste prevention and the first priority in the Flemish waste policy.
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Communication and Education, Legal, Technical and Research, Waste Prevention
Organisation: Kent council
Localisation: Kent County (UK)
Since 1996, the Kent Council has settled a home composting programme, and by adopting the first Kent Household Waste Strategy in 2003, each Kent Council municipality established realistic targets regarding home composting.
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Construction Material, Energy, Industrial and Territorial Ecology, Other Fractions, Technical and Research, Water
Organisation: Kalundborg Municipality
Main partners:
Localisation: Kalundborg (Denmark)
The Kalundborg Symbiosis is an industrial ecosystem in Denmark, where eight industrial companies are working together making by-products commercially interesting as new resources in other production processes after the cradle to cradle model. An industrial symbiosis is a local collaboration where public and private enterprises buy and sell residual products, resulting in mutual economic and environmental benefits.
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Communication and Education, Technical and Research, Waste Prevention
Organisation: SEAPFA (Syndicat d’Equipement et d’Aménagement des Pays de France et de l’Aulnoye)
Localisation: Seine-Saint-Denis (France)
The SEAPFA (Syndicat d’Equipement et d’Aménagement des Pays de France et de l’Aulnoye), in the Seine- Saint-Denis department (France), initiated the installation of individual composting units in 1999.
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Communication and Education, Legal, Technical and Research, Waste Prevention
Organisation: MADEP (Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection)
Localisation: Massachusetts, USA
Since 1994, the MADEP (Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection) makes home composting bins available to cities and towns through its recycling equipment grant program
Categories: Communication and Education, Eco Consumption, Energy, Glass, Metal, Paper, Plastic, Reuse and preparing for reuse, Technical and Research, Waste Prevention
Organisation: Styrian Region
Localisation: Styria, Austria
In 2001, the Austrian region Styria introduced the brand “G´SCHEIT FEIERN” (clever feasting) as a “new Styrian festival culture” based on sustainability. This included the generation of less waste, the consumption of regional products of superior quality and alternative solutions for arrival and departure with cars during festivities.
Categories: Collaborative Economy, Construction Material, Eco Consumption, Eco Design, Eco Production, Governance, Strategy and Planning, Industrial and Territorial Ecology, Product Service Systems, Recycling, Resources, Reuse and preparing for reuse, Waste Prevention
Organisation: 1) Genova Municipality; 2) AMIU (Azienda Multiservizi e d'Igiene Urbana)
Main partners:
Localisation: Liguria (IT)
The Municipality of Genoa and AMIU – the Municipal Urban Health Enterprise have created Liguria Circular, the permanent forum of circular economy in Liguria aiming to promote and manage circular economy initiatives in the Liguria territory. It is composed by private companies, individual professionals, government agencies, associations, university departments and research centres.
Categories: Communication and Education, Other bulky items, Reuse and preparing for reuse, Technical and Research, Waste Prevention
Organisation: Ressources network
Localisation: Brussels and Walloon regions (Belgium)
Since 1999, the ‘Ressources’ network has gathered social economy enterprises active in Brussels and the Walloon regions. These social economy enterprises are collecting various types of products, amongst which textiles and EEE, to put them back on the market through second hand shops.
Categories: EEE, Glass, Metal, Other bulky items, Plastic, Reuse and preparing for reuse, Technical and Research, Wood
Organisation: Furniture Reuse Network
Localisation: United Kingdom
The Furniture Reuse Network is the national body which supports, assists and develops charitable re-use organisations across the UK. FRN does this to reduce poverty by helping households in need access furniture, white goods and other household items at affordable prices. In addition, FRN supports re-use organisations in providing training and work placement opportunities for people who are socially excluded.
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Communication and Education, Technical and Research, Waste Prevention
Organisation: FareShare
Localisation: United Kingdom
With the objective to prevent food waste, FareShare has been operating since 2004 as an independent charity and today has 14 locations around the UK. Established in 1994 as a project within the homelessness charity Crisis, FareShare aims to help vulnerable groups, whether they are homeless, elderly, children, or other groups in food poverty within our communities.
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Communication and Education, Technical and Research, Waste Prevention
Organisation: Azienda Multiservizi Igiene Ambientale Torino (AMIAT)
Localisation: Turin (Italy)
In order to prevent food waste, the Azienda Multiservizi Igiene Ambientale Torino (AMIAT) collects edibles food (cheese, meat, etc.) from the supermarket Auchan and edible bread and fruit from 120 Turin school canteens (representing 31000 meals/day). All the food collected is delivered to 7 city aid agency canteens for the preparation of the meals.
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Recycling, Technical and Research, Waste Prevention
Organisation: Freistadt municipality
Localisation: Freistadt (Austria)
Since 1992, in Austria the bio-waste from households is partly collected and partly composted at home. It is estimated that 800.000 tons of bio-waste is composted at household level.
Categories: Economic, Legal, Paper, Waste Prevention
Organisation: OVAM
Localisation: Flanders region (Belgium)
The Flanders decree of 2 July 1981 concerning the prevention and management of waste products stipulates that ‘Environmental Policy Agreements (EPA)’ can be concluded for reaching certain objectives. The same decree designated the product groups for which an acceptance duty is set with the aim to collect and recycle. The ‘Flanders regulation with regard to waste prevention and management (VLAREA)’ of 1998 provides the ‘execution resolutions’ for the decree of 1981 concerning the prevention and management of waste products.
Categories: Communication and Education, Eco Consumption, Plastic, Reuse and preparing for reuse, Waste Prevention
Organisation: North London Waste Authority
Localisation: North London, UK
In 2011 North London Waste Agency worked with retailers across north London to promote the Smart Shopping message. The aim of the project was to encourage the use of reusable shopping bags by offering shoppers a free reusable cotton bag instead of a plastic carrier bag.
Categories: Other bulky items, Other Fractions, Reuse and preparing for reuse, Technical and Research
Organisation: Emmaus Community of Ile-de-France
Localisation: Ile de France
The Emmaus Community of Ile-de-France entrust ‘Emmaus Défi’ for the collection of objects (WEEE, furniture, textile, etc.) that they cannot provide in order to prevent waste via a reuse scheme and second hand programme.
Categories: Communication and Education, Glass, Metal, Paper, Plastic, Waste Prevention
Organisation: LIPOR - Intermunicipal Waste Management of Greater Porto
Localisation: Portugal
The “Resíduos OK Project” was an environmental education project implemented by LIPOR – Intermunicipal Waste Management of Greater Porto, addressed to Secondary Schools and aiming to promote the implementation of actions catalyst of good environmental practices, especially in terms of paper waste prevention.
Categories: Communication and Education, Eco Consumption, Glass, Metal, Paper, Plastic, Waste Prevention
Organisation: LIPOR - Intermunicipal Waste Management of Greater Porto
Localisation: Portugal
The “Re-Agir Project” was an environmental education project implemented by LIPOR – Intermunicipal Waste Management of Greater Porto, addressed to primary schools, which aimed to develop initiatives to promote community participation in educational actions environmental awareness and involve families in this context
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Communication and Education, Waste Prevention
Organisation: LIPOR - Intermunicipal Waste Management of Greater Porto
Localisation: Portugal
“Alquimia da Matéria Orgânica Project” is an environmental education project implemented by LIPOR – Intermunicipal Waste Management of Greater Porto, which aimed to promote the reduction of organic waste through composting, being a vehicle to facilitate citizenship and quality of life either in the school community or the community at large.
Categories: Metal, Other bulky items, Plastic, Reuse and preparing for reuse, Technical and Research, Waste Prevention, Wood
Organisation: North Rhine-Westphalia
Main partners:
Additional partners scattered all over Germany
Localisation: Germany
The Ecomoebel Gmbh is a German cooperation-network aiming at furniture reuse in North Rhine-Westphalia, via the reconditioning and marketing of used furniture.
Categories: Eco Consumption, Paper, Technical and Research, Waste Prevention
Organisation: Manresa City Council
Localisation: Manresa, Catalonia, Spain
In 2007, the Territorial Area of Manresa City Council (Catalonia) commanded a research study “Ent, Environment and Management” to analyze the sources of paper waste and to evaluate the effectiveness of paper waste reduction via dematerialisation.
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Technical and Research, Waste Prevention
Organisation: City of Zurich
Localisation: Zurich, Switzerland
The city of Zürich started in the 1992 with a comprehensive Community Composting (CC) program. Currently (2008) more than 900 active community composting parks are up and running in the city of Zürich.
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Communication and Education, Technical and Research, Waste Prevention
Organisation: Rennes Métropole
Localisation: Rennes, France
The first community composing bin in Rennes Métropole was installed in 2006, in the garden of a block of 48 flats. Afterwards, the demand grew, and now 190 community composting bins serve more than 2000 households.
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Technical and Research, Waste Prevention
Organisation: Chambery Metropolitan Area
Localisation: Chambéry, France
Households, schools and other establishments producing bio-waste can be targeted and involved in comprehensive bio-waste prevention, re-use and recycling activities. The recovery of bio-waste has become one of main objectives by some municipalities in France, such as Chambery Metropolitan Area.
Categories: Legal, Paper, Plastic, Technical and Research, Waste Prevention
Organisation: FCD (Fédération des Entreprises du Commerce et de la Distribution = Federation of Entreprises of Trade and Distribution)
Localisation: France
The Federation of enterprises of trade and distribution (FCD) aims at a ban on all one-way packaging at the counters by 2011.
Categories: Legal, Paper, Plastic, Waste Prevention
Organisation: Institute for ecology Gießen/Marburg and Municipality of Korbach
Localisation: Korbach, State of Hesse, Germany
The Hessentag (Hessian Day) is an annual event, both fair and festival, organized by the German state of Hesse. In 1997, one of the measures implemented was the ban on disposable packaging for the whole event.
Categories: Legal, Paper, Plastic, Waste Prevention
Organisation: Local government of Munich
Localisation: Munich, Germany
In Germany, Austria, and Switzerland different regulations have been put into place to ban the use of disposable food and drink containers at large scale events and to establish a framework for the use of reusable crockery. Several German cities took action against disposable food and drink container at events in the early 1990s, and Munich was among these forerunners.
Categories: EEE, Glass, Metal, Other bulky items, Plastic, Reuse and preparing for reuse, Waste Prevention, Wood
Organisation: Association Espanola de Recuperadores de Economia Social y Solidaria (AERESS)
Localisation: Basque Country, Spain
The Spanish Reuse Association AERESS is specialized in waste management and more specifically the collection of paper /cardboard, textiles, furniture and WEEE as well as bio waste.
Categories: Communication and Education, Other Fractions, Waste Prevention
Organisation: LIPOR - Intermunicipal Waste Management of Greater Porto
Localisation: Portugal
The objectives of this action were to conduct a campaign to exchange mercury thermometers by digital thermometers, sensitize the population for the danger of mercury, allow for a proper referral of such waste, and prevent it from occurring in the urban waste, and thus their transport to landfills or incineration.
Categories: Communication and Education, Paper, Waste Prevention
Organisation: Brussels Capital Region
Localisation: Belgium
The goal of the project is to change the behaviour of pupils and the school as a whole to produce less waste, more specifically: consume less paper and thus reduce paper waste generation.
Categories: Communication and Education, Eco Consumption, Recycling, Resources, Reuse and preparing for reuse, Waste Prevention
Organisation: Municipality of Lisbon
Main partners:
Localisation: Lisbon (PT)
The Municipality of Lisbon promotes two continual environmental education programs, specially designed to different age target groups, called “Lisboa Limpa Tem outra Pinta! (LLTOP)” (Cleaned Lisbon is Cool!) and “Escola a Escola Pró-Ambiente (EEPA)” (School to School Pro-Environment).
Categories: Communication and Education, Economic, EEE, Recycling, Technical and Research
Organisation: ROREC and ECOTIC
Main partners:
n/a
Localisation: Ilfov (RO)
2 associations were created in 2007, ROREC and ECOTIC, which took over the responsibility from the producer / importer in managing WEEE. They develop annual campaigns in order to increase the rate of WEEE collection and recycling.
Categories: Communication and Education, EEE, Glass, Metal, Other bulky items, Paper, Plastic, Recycling, Reuse and preparing for reuse
Organisation: Ecological Recycling Society
Main partners:
Localisation: Elefsina (EL)
Ecological Recycling Society (ERS) implemented a door-to-door information campaign in Elefsina municipality in order to increase recycling rates. The campaign was implemented by visiting the households individually to provide all the available information regarding the recycling facilities of the municipality.
Categories: Economic, Glass, Metal, Plastic, Recycling, Reuse and preparing for reuse, Technical and Research
Organisation: Ministry of Environment
Main partners:
Localisation: Estonia (EE)
The packaging deposit was established by the Ministry of the Environment for glass and plastic bottles in 2005. Every customer, who buys a carbonised drink, beer, some other low-alcohol beverage, juice, juice concentrate or nectar, also pays the deposit, which is indicated separately on the price label.
Categories: Communication and Education, Material fractions, Recycling, Reuse and preparing for reuse, Technical and Research, Waste Prevention
Organisation: VABÖ – Verband Abfallberatung Österreich
Main partners:
Localisation: Austria (AT)
As an innovative solution to severe waste problems of the 1980s a small NGO (ARGE) developed the concept of “municipal environment & waste consultant” and implemented it within the next years all over Austria with labour agency funding. Today 340 consultants are the backbone of public waste management.
Categories: Communication and Education, Other bulky items, Other Fractions, Recycling, Technical and Research
Organisation: Municipality of Sofia
Main partners:
Localisation: Sofia (BG)
In 2012 Sofia Municipality launched a system for separate collection of hazardous household waste. The system includes door-to-door collection by request or in mobile collection points, providing transportation and packaging for safe transport, subsequent treatment and disposal.
Categories: Communication and Education, EEE, Glass, Metal, Other bulky items, Other Fractions, Plastic, Recycling, Reuse and preparing for reuse, Technical and Research, Wood
Organisation: Odense Waste Management Company
Main partners:
Localisation: Odense (DK)
Odense operates eight civic amenity sites, i.e. approximately 24,000 inhabitants per site. All sites have approximately 30 containers for different material fractions. There is access control (national medical health card) to register visits. All sites are manned (two employees per site). The opening hours are generally from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. all weekdays (also holidays).
Categories: Communication and Education, EEE, Glass, Metal, Other bulky items, Plastic, Recycling, Reuse and preparing for reuse, Technical and Research, Wood
Organisation: Nantes Métropole
Main partners:
Localisation: Nantes Métropole (FR)
As a follow-up of the “tri-sac” (sorting bag) initiative and the under grounding of waste containers, this action aimed at providing a solution for bulky waste.
Categories: Material fractions, Recycling, Technical and Research
Organisation: Maia municipality
Main partners:
Localisation: Southern Region (IE)
The “Eco-container at Home” Project is based on the distribution of individual containers/ bins for waste selective deposition and for the mixed waste deposition (4 diffrerent bins with four different colours), which allows separate the waste without living home.
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Recycling, Technical and Research
Organisation: Southern Region of Ireland
Main partners:
Localisation: Southern Region (IE)
In order to achieve the objectives of the Irish National Strategy on Biodegradable Waste and the Regional Waste Plan minimum targets in relation to the collection of source segregated commercial and household food waste were specified.
Categories: Economic, EEE, Glass, Metal, Other bulky items, Plastic, Recycling, Reuse and preparing for reuse
Organisation: Brussels Environment
Main partners:
Oxfam, les Petits Riens, La Poudrière, Terre and the Salvation Army
Localisation: Brussels-Capital Region (BE)
A financial support is provided to social economy actors according to the quantities of waste collected and recycled and products reused. The financial support also aims at making these activties self-supporting in the long term and well organised via an agreement procedure.
Categories: Biogenic fraction, EEE, Glass, Material fractions, Metal, Other bulky items, Other Fractions, Paper, Plastic, Recycling, Reuse and preparing for reuse, Technical and Research, Waste Prevention, Wood
Organisation: Brussels Environment
Main partners:
BECI
Localisation: Brussels-Capital Region (BE)
The Brussels Waste Network was created in 2010 to develop a network of waste advisers for Brussels based entreprises. This project comes from a public/private partnership with BECI, the Chambre of Commerce and Industry de la Région de Bruxelles Capitale.
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Recycling, Technical and Research
Organisation: Municipality of Milan - AMSA
Main partners:
Localisation: Milan (IT)
The door to door households organic waste collection plan was first introduced in November 2012 in ¼ of the city of Milan and then was extended to the whole city in June 2014.
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Economic, Glass, Metal, Paper, Plastic, Recycling
Organisation: ARC - Catalan Waste Agency
Main partners:
n/a
Localisation: Catalonia (ES)
The region of Catalonia introduced a landfill tax in 2004 which initial rate was 10.00 € per tonne of municipal waste.
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Material fractions, Recycling, Technical and Research
Organisation: ARC - Catalan Waste Agency
Main partners:
Associació de Municipis Catalans per a la Recollida Porta a Porta
Localisation: Catalonia (ES)
In door-to-door selective collection (D-t-D) the waste owner (households, commerce) places Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) streams separated at source outside the front door for municipal collection services, according to a collection schedule for each waste stream.
Categories: Biogenic fraction, Technical and Research
Organisation: ARC - Catalan Waste Agency
Localisation: Catalonia (ES)
Catalan municipalities without an approved deployment plan for bio-waste separate collection and treatment have to pay an increased disposal tax for the landfilling and incineration of residual waste.