Greece • recycling
- Sector: recycling
- Headquarters Country: Greece
- City: central macedonia
- Founding Year: 2009
- Operating Regions: Greece
- Founders: parternship of Efxini Poli, Local Authorities’ Network for Social, Cultural, Tourist, Environmental and Agricultural Development (Lead partner) GREECE, Ecological Recycling Society GREECE, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Laboratory for Heat Transfer and Environmental Engineering GREECE, BRGM – Regional Geological Survey of Provence Alpes Cote-d’Azur FRANCE, Research Centre Bistra Ptuj SLOVENIA, Municipality of Ragusa ITALY, UAB Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Chemical Engineering Department SPAIN
- Problem Identified: too much waste
- Solution Offered: In the frame of the ZERO WASTE project the following activities are previewed to take place: - development of a project communication plan; web site, leaflets, posters, publicity material; press and media campaign; organization of info days with thematic workshops and exhibitions. - zero waste systems' surveys and analysis to evaluate waste management methods by Municipalities. Study of the operational requirements for the implementation of municipal composting facilities for household biowaste in certain municipalities in Greece, Slovenia, France and Italy will be drafted. Study of the environmental burdens of home composting in certain areas of Catalonia will be executed. - exchange of experiences: inventories on best and worst practices and transnational SWOT analysis; organization of workshops on waste management methods and common resolution on zero waste application - implementation procedure of alternative waste management schemes in Municipalities, composed of practical guidelines for each pilot municipality and pilot application - development of Regional Policy tools: creation of an overall handbook on the implementation procedure of alternative waste management schemes and an Interactive Decision Support Tool; Involvement and exchange of know how for Municipal servants, policy makers and other stakeholders. - pilot application of household composting for a certain number of households in Greece, Slovenia, France and Italy will be launched. In Catalonia, Spain, the environmental impact of home composting through the LCA tool will be determined.
- Website: http://www.med-zerowaste.eu/index.html
- Score: 7 Youth employment and training initiative
