WINPOL

The WINPOL project – Waste Management Intelligent Systems and Policies – aims to improve regional and local waste management processes by promoting intelligent equipment and innovative planning derived from it in order to minimise waste generation and increase the efficiency of waste management processes.

Project funded under the European Regional Development Fund.

Highlights

The long awaited first thematic seminar of the project took place in May 2019 focusing on the collection and use of information to optimise waste management. Good practices across Europe were exchanged between project partners, their local stakeholders and external experts invited by ACR+, as Advisory Partner of the project. The presentations of the more than 10 practices exchanged are available on the event website.

To present and promote WINPOL during events locally and internationally, the partnership developed a synthetic project leaflet which is now public and available in different languages projects.

THE PROJECT

THE PROJECT

The WINPOL project aims at improving policies for waste management so that they increasingly foster and promote the use of intelligent equipment and planning derived of it, significantly contributing to waste minimisation in European cities and regions, through improved management procedures and awareness campaigns.

Intelligent equipment and systems for waste disposal, collection and management bring about the opportunity to improve policies because the detailed information produced makes it possible to develop individual and accurate taxation policies in line with the “who pollutes pays” principles.They also lead to improved resource efficiency in the collection routes, to highly targeted campaigns that address critical groups of waste producers who have been identified thanks to data collected and, in general, to better strategic waste management planning at urban level as well as to cost optimisation in the mid-term, even if initial investments have to be faced.

However, the degree of introduction of innovative equipment varies significantly from one environment to another. The WINPOL partnership gathers together cities and regions with proven experience in intelligent equipment and related waste management policies, and cities and regions planning to introduce them in the mid-term.

ACTIVITIES

ACTIVITIES

As advisory partner ACR+ is in charge of providing expertise to the partnership in the different stages, helping to consolidate the knowledge base of the project. A Capacity-Building event will be organised by ACR+ to present tools already existing and developed by other projects (Pre-waste, Miniwaste, R4R, among others) and train partner cities representatives in using them.

In addition, ACR+ will provide an inventory of good practices, capitalising on the experiences from its members throughout Europe, the various projects ACR+ is involved in and other sources. It will also take experts in the different topics to the thematic seminars. Last but not least, ACR+ will coordinate the communications activities of the project, aiming at ensuring consistent and efficient communication, ensuring the visibility of project and programme.

PARTNERS INVOLVED

PARTNERS INVOLVED

WINPOL's project coordinator is EMULSA* (the Municipal Company of Urban Environment Services of Gijón, ES) and the other partners involved are:

City of Antwerp (BE)
ERA, Environment and Resources Authority (MT)
Region of Crete (GR)
Municipality of Heraklion (GR)
SNAGA, company for waste management and other utility services (SI)
Drobeta Turnu Severin City Hall (RO)
Mehedinti County Council (RO)

ACR+ is acting as advisory partner on the project and will be providing expertise to the partnership, as well as coordinating the communication activities of the project.

*ACR+ member

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