ZERO WASTE

Project type: internacional
Duration: may 2009 - april 2012
Project manager: EFXINI POLI, Local Authorities Network for social, cultural, tourist, environmental and agricultural development (Greece)

The project "ZERO WASTE" aims at developing an integrated Zero-waste management system with the aim to minimize waste production and to maximize resources and energy in the areas participating in the project, as well as to systematically and dramatically reduce the amount of waste that ends up in landfills and dumps.

Partners:
  • SRC Bistra Ptuj (Slovenia)
  • Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece)
  • Ecological Recycling Society (Greece)
  • ASAEL – Aragonese Association of Local Authorities (Spain)
  • Municipality of Ragusa (Italy)
  • BRGM – Office of Geological and Mineral Research (France)

Value of the project:
1.303.596,00 €

Financing:
  • The project is partly financed from ERDF – European regional development fund, over Mediterranean Programme.

Objectives:

-         The development of a common system for determining the energy resources and reduce waste in the region.

-         Systematically reducing the amount of waste going to landfills or in the environment.

-         Promoting the reuse and re-integration of the waste to recycling.

-         Promotion and rising public awareness about importance of waste separation.

-         Re-use of these secondary sources and the promotion of recycling methods, which may be regarded as an economic activity and an essential part of sustainable development in the participating regions.

-         Re-use of waste and converting them into new products creates new jobs and reducing operating costs, which means added value to the economy of the region. 



Descriptions / Results:

-         Production of website about the project.

-         Production of 12000 leaflets / country, 2000 posters and 3 electronic newsletters. 2 press conferences and 5 press releases. 2 publications.

-         5 info days in Slovenia.

-         1 Common Transnational Resolution on Zero Waste application

-         1 Questionnaire on waste management methods – 1 Common Report of Analysis of Zero Waste Systems.

-         Study on the implementation of a composting facility for household biowaste - Report on assessment of Pilot Applications.

-         1 Transnational SWOT Analysis on waste management concepts – 5 National inventories of best and worst practices of waste management.

-         2 Seminars for the involvement and transfer of know how for munical servants and policy makers.

-         1 Overall handbook on the implementation procedure of alternative waste management.

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