Pre-waste

20 July 2016 Content

PreWaste for Web

Pre-waste was a three-year European project with the aim to help local and regional authorities improve their waste prevention policies, in order to significantly reduce the production of waste and its hazards.

The project was co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund and made possible by the INTERREG IVC Programme, 2010-2012.

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The Pre-waste project was designed to improve the effectiveness of waste prevention policies in EU territories in order to significantly reduce waste production and hazardousness, through the close collaboration of local and regional authorities, public entities and other stakeholders.

In particular, the project aimed to:

define guidelines to plan, implement and monitor regional waste prevention policies;
select 20 of the best waste prevention practices implemented in the European Union by local and regional authorities;
create a web tool to asses and monitor the efficiency of the waste prevention actions implemented.

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All partners were idrectly involved in the different stages of the project that included numerous activities such as: dissemination of press releases, organisation of a national event and a European conference on waste prevention, creation of a website, dissemination of the newsletter, identification of best practices (at least 20) and the relevant monitoring indicators, preparation of a feasibility study by each partner for the transfer of one or several good practices identifies in its territory.

All this helped to define a shared methodology to support the local administration authorities to plan and implement an efficient waste prevention policy by using the proposed web tool to monitor waste prevention policies according to the indicators selected and identified by the partners under the project.

ACR+ played a key role in the project, as an expert for the development of the common methodology, the web tool and the identification of waste prevention best practices. ACR+ also acted as a communication manager for the project and is in charge of disseminating its results throughout its European network.

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Pre-waste's project leader was Marche Region (Italy), with the support of SVIM - Sviluppo Marche S.p.a, the Regional Development Agency. Its project partners were:

ACR+
IBGE - Brussels Environment*
Karlskrona Municipality
ORDIF*, Ile de France Region Waste Management Observatory
Public Cooperation Department of Ilfov County
Roquetas de Mar Municipality
Sofia Municipality*
Tampere Regional Solid Waste Management Ltd
WasteServ Malta Ltd

* ACR+ member

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Since the beginning of the project, Pre-waste partners gathered and analysed more than 100 case studies related to waste prevention. Travelling books, “stop pub” stickers, campaigns and coaching to prevent waste, home and collective composting, refilling machines for water or detergents, and clothes library are some of the practices collected from 18 EU countries that cover all waste fractions. From the 105 cases, 56 Good Practices were selected, about which the partners gathered more data. Finally, Partners selected more than 20 practices as the best examples of waste prevention across EU. In 2012, Partners have developed feasibility studies in order to assess the transferability of one practice in its territory.

The Pre-waste final conference took place in Brussels on 7 November 2012 and gave the opportunity to present the project's outputs to more than 200 European experts.

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