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7 November

• Pre-waste Final Conference | Implementing waste prevention at regional level

The Pre-waste project is a European project aiming at helping local and regional authorities at developing and implementing waste prevention strategies by providing them with guidance, good practices and monitoring tools. It is supported by the ERDF and made possible by the INTERREG IV C Programme of the European Commission. More information: www.prewaste.eu

Pre-Waste Final Conference

Morning session

Welcome speech

• Gerhard Stahl, CoR Secretary General

The European context of waste prevention strategies

• Jean-Pierre Hannequart: Waste prevention strategy: From European to local/regional level
• Stefania Amorosi: Interregional cooperation - State of play and perspective
• Lorenzo Federiconi: Pre-waste project: objectives and main results

Developing an efficient waste prevention strategy at local and regional level

• Philippe Micheaux Naudet: The Pre-waste methodology for local/regional waste prevention strategy
• Stephanie Mantell: Pre-waste Good Practices
• Jean-Benoît Bel: Monitoring waste prevention actions 

Workshop session

Group 1a: Waste prevention plans

• Katya Valkova: Waste Prevention Plan of Sofia Municipality
• Françoise Bonnet: Prevention quantitative targets of the Brussels 4th Waste Plan: first evaluation
• Jean-Louis Merrien: Reducing Waste through a Local Program in Rennes Métropole

Group 1b: Communication and education

• Maria Larsson: Reducing waste by communication
• Alina Tatulescu: Results of the Transferability Study for the Implementation of the “LET’S DO IT WITH FERDA” Good Practice in the Ilfov County
• Valentina Cipriano: Federambiente waste prevention initiatives

Group 2a: Food waste in schools

• Riccardo Marchesi: Assessment of the effectiveness and transferability of the Good Practice “Halmstad schools competing to reduce food waste in canteens” (Sweden) in Marche Region
• Suvi Holm: Reducing the amount of food waste in schools in Tampere Region, Finland
• Martin Doherty: Food waste in Schools

Group 2b: Tourism and events

• Luis M. Carmona Ledesma & Ignacio A. Sánchez Pino: Roquetas de Mar: Implementation of an Eco-label on turist hotels
• Dr Chris Sherrington: An Obligation for Reusable Containers for Food and Drink at Public Events in the Brussels Capital Region
• Patrick Mahon: WRAP’s Voluntary Agreement with the UK Hospitality and Food Service Sector

Group 3a: Food waste strategies

• Catarina Almeida: Lipor's food waste strategies
• Elizabeth Melgarejo: Feasibility study for the transfer of good practices in food waste prevention
• Pilar Chiva: Preventing food waste in Catalonia

Group 3b: Reuse strategies

• Mariello Spiteri: Re-Use Strategies
• Maarten De Groof: OVAM and the Flemish reuse centers
• Erich Gungl: The ALLWEG Steiermarkflasche (the “multi-use Styria Bottle”): Current practice and future activities

Gallery

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8 November

• ACR+ Conference  

Optimising waste management - innovative actions and instruments for cities and regions

• ACR+ Statutory General Assembly (open event)

ACR+ achievements in 2012 and perspectives for 2013 

• European Seminar ACR+/RREUSE

The European hot topic of reuse and preparing for reuse

ACR+ CONFERENCE

OPTIMISING WASTE MANAGEMENT: INNOVATIVE ACTIONS AND INSTRUMENTS FOR CITIES AND REGIONS

Introduction

• M. Michel Lebrun: Opening speech
• Jean-Pierre Hannequart: Optimising waste management - 3 key orientations

Session 1 | Quantified objectives and performances for recycling in Europe

• Michel Sponar: Quantified objectives and performances for recycling in Europe
• Nadine De Greef: “Better implementation of waste legislation as a driver for more recycling and resource efficiency”
• Stephane Arditi: How to set quantified objectives to boost recycling?
• Jean-Benoît Bel: R4R: Regional contributions to the European recycling society

Session 2 | Economic instruments for waste management

• Shailendra Mudgal: Use of economic instruments in the EU 27 and waste management performances
• Adrien Bastides: Evolution des filières REP en France
• Samuel Stollman: Waste Pays ...and other economic instruments in Ducht waste management
• Françoise Bonnet: ACR+ EPR Club: Framework & Programme of Activities
  

ACR+ Statutory General Assembly

ACHIEVEMENTS AND PERSPECTIVES

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EUROPEAN SEMINAR ACR+/RREUSE

THE EUROPEAN HOT TOPIC OF REUSE AND PREPARING FOR REUSE

Introduction

• Jean-Pierre Hannequart: Introduction to reuse and preparing for reuse

Session 1 | Can more be done within EU legislation to promote repair and reuse?

• Jorge Díaz del Castillo: The current role of reuse/ preparation for reuse in EU legislation
• Michal Len: Legislative requirements to help boost preparation for reuse and repair activities in Europe

Session 2 | Reuse and repair systems - how they are organised in the case of WEEE, furniture and textiles

• Nicolas Alliot: The role of reuse/repair activities in producer responsibility schemes
• Matthias Neitsch: CERREC: Re-Use networks in Austria
• Arantxa Ramos: AERESS for a Social, Solidarity and Ecological Economy: textile reuse in Spain

Session 3 | Supporting reuse and repair activities from a social inclusion, economic and environmental perspective

• Cécile Patris: RESSOURCES: a Federation providing services for social economy enterprises active in reuse, Brussels and Wallonia
• Maya Battisti: Waste picker integration in Italy: A new high-performance re-use and recycling model
• Tim Wagendorp: The Flemish reuse network: Two decades of experience

Gallery

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Organisers 

The event is organised by ACR+ and Brussels Environment

 with the support of Committee of the Regions, Pre-waste Partner, Interreg IVC Programme and RREUSE.