SMART WASTE

The SMART WASTE project – Innovation in Waste Management Policies – aims at improving public policy instruments supporting innovation within waste management procedures, both in terms of new approaches and new technologies. The project looks at both new approaches and at new technologies applied in reusing, in reducing, recycling, and recovering the waste.

Project funded under the European Regional Development Fund of the European Union, 2019 - 2023

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“Let’s talk about waste management on our territories.” This is how SMART WASTE partners started – without even knowing it – a very fruitful series of meetings. Without any specific agenda, partners are informally discussing and exchanging information on the topics central to the project. Sometimes the discussion brings them to the policy improvement on which they are working, sometimes they talk about waste data or explore other territories and fields. Initiated in April 2021, the so-called focus group has already been meeting four times and plans on continuing on this dynamic with the next meeting scheduled in September. 

WHY SMART WASTE?

WHY SMART WASTE?

Local, regional, and national authorities are working hard to manage in an always more sustainable way their waste and implement a comprehensive and circular approach. They consider new approaches and technologies to reduce, reuse, recycle, and recover waste. They attempt to fit these into a comprehensive and circular approach.

But what are the results of their actions? Are these measures having a concrete impact? Could their implementation be more effective? The SMART WASTE project is born to answer these questions.

THE PROJECT

THE PROJECT

The SMART WASTE project aims at improving public policy instruments supporting innovation within waste management procedures, both in terms of new approaches and new technologies. The project looks at approaches applied in reducing, reusing, recycling and recovering waste. It looks at how regional policies have applied approaches that have emerged over recent years, such as the circular economy concept. It also looks at investments in innovative technologies to support these approaches. It looks at what new technologies have been tested and applied, thanks to public funding sources, and what impact they have had.

ACTIVITIES

ACTIVITIES

SMART WASTE is divided into two phases. In the first phase of the project, regional project partners will evaluate innovation in their waste management policies and identify Good Practices and failures through interregional exchange events. Partners will then develop a two-part Action Plan with short and long-term measures to improve their policies. During the second phase of the project, they will implement their Action Plan and finally show their results during a high-level political event.

ACR+ is the Advisory Partner, helping to consolidate the project knowledge base and supporting the interregional exchanges. In its advisory role, ACR+ will, in particular, provide thematic input by bringing in external best practices and experts to the different events. In addition, ACR+ will coordinate communication activities to ensure consistent and efficient dissemination of the project and the programme.

PARTNERS INVOLVED

PARTNERS INVOLVED

The coordinator of the SMART WASTE project is ARRR*, Resources Recovery Regional Agency of the Tuscany Region (IT), and its project partners are:

ACR+, Association of Cities and Regions for Sustainable Resource Management (BE)
BAMEE, Bulgarian Association of Municipal Environmental Experts (BG)
KRATC, Klaipeda Regional Waste Management Centre (LT)
Municipality of Apeldoorn (NL)
Municipality of Kolding (DK)

*ACR+ member

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