This report is part of the ACR+ Waste Observatory and is a follow up of a 2014 report presenting an EU-capitals benchmarking. It compares municipal waste management in cities and metropolitan areas. Data were collected in 17 cities across Europe, including ACR+ members Liège, Odense, Barcelona, Pamplona, Rennes, Maastricht and Porto. To allow consistent comparisons, the collected data are presented in factsheets, one per each city.

This publication aims to complete the General guidelines for circular economy planning for local and regional authorities by providing concrete examples of good practices to set actions specifically for local SMEs.

Members of ACR+ have contributed to the study by providing information on their actions related to Circular Economy that have been implemented in their city or region. Indeed, governments must create across-the-board connections between stakeholders at all levels, whether they are private companies, public authorities, scientists, academia or consumers. If you would like to share your own experience, please contact the ACR+ Secretariat.

This report looks at the application of PAYT in the European Union (EU) through several case studies: seven municipalities from seven different countries are examined and compared for their strategies with regard to PAYT. This report aims to clarify the potential benefits and challenges when introducing PAYT. The study focuses on household waste.

Executive summary

This report aims to provide cases about how some cities and regions selectively collect and treat bio-waste. It includes a series of synthetic factsheets presenting bio-waste collection schemes from six European regions and cities and a comparison of those systems and their performances.

The overarching aim of this research project jointly commissioned by ACR+ and the European Environmental Bureau (EEB) is to discuss approaches and possible methodologies to implement waste management performance contracts.  

View the executive summary and a study case.

A report into the potential that waste management poses for the transition to a low carbon economy. This report commissioned by Zero Waste Europe, in partnership with Zero Waste France and ACR+  and conducted by Eunomia, highlights key problems with the current UNFCCC waste inventories, as well as providing recommendations for their improvement.

Executive summary (English)

  Full report (English)

Technical appendices (English)

Résumé exécutif (français)

Rapport complet (français)

The report reviews the current performances of 18 EU capital cities regarding municipal waste management in their territories.

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This report aims to highlight the different possible composting strategies that can be considered by local authorities and other public/private stakeholders dealing with bio-waste.

The information is presented in an easy, accessible way and is meant to provide best available bio-waste composting strategies. This publication is of particular interest for those countries that are still heavily reliant on landfilling of bio-waste.

 View table of contents and executive summary.