Pre-waste
Sharing good practices to reduce waste
Pre-waste is a three-year European project (2010-2012) whose aim is to help cities and regions to improve their waste prevention policies.
The project involves 10 partners in Europe, committed to sharing their
expertise in waste prevention and waste management. The objective is to
give decision makers the opportunity to go beyond recycling and to be
ever greener when they develop their waste or environmental policies.
The outputs
In particular, Pre-waste will deliver:
- a common methodology for developing efficient regional waste prevention policies, in terms of planning, implementation and monitoring,
- 20 best examples of waste prevention actions implemented by local or regional authorities,
- a range of indicators and a web tool allowing the assessment of the efficiency of waste prevention actions and monitoring.
ACR+'s involvement
ACR+ plays a key role in the project, as an expert for the development
of the common methodology, the web tool and the identification of the
best practices. ACR+ also acts as a communication manager for the
project and is in charge of disseminating its results throughout its
European network. In particular, ACR+ will have the chamce to publicise the project's progress during the European Week for Waste Reduction, in which the network also plays a key role.
A website will be built soon both to provide the partners with a
knowledge sharing platform and to publish the outputs of the project.
Several conferences will be held throughout the project in all partner
countries and a final conference in Brussels in October 2012 will
present the results of Pre-waste.
Where are we now?
After the kick-off meeting in Ancona (Italy) in April 2010, ACR+ and
the other partners started to gather case studies on waste prevention, on
the basis of which they will perform feasibility studies and select the
20 best practices. They also started their discussions on the
definition of indicators that will allow assessing the efficiency of
waste prevention actions.
Several experts meetings have taken place so far, in Roquetas de Mar (Spain,
October 2010), Brussels (Belgium, March 2011) and Karlskrona (Sweden, June 2011), where the partners
had the opportunity to agree on around 60 good practices to be
investigated in more depth. They also agreed on the basic framework for
the monitoring of waste prevention actions, according to three types of
indicator: resource indicators, result indicators and impact indicators.
Moreover, on 28 March 2011, an International workshop was held in Brussels, where some 150 participants had the opportunity to share their views about waste prevention.
The Pre-waste website is online. There you will find additional information about the varoius Pre-waste activities (good practices, events and so on).
What's next?
In 2011, a number of national events will be organised by the partners in their countries. So far, two of these events have taken place, in Tampere in March, and Sofia in June.
Another experts meeting will happen along with a training session that will be organised in October in Bucharest (Romania). The training will cover the preparation of waste prevention plans and transferability of waste prevention good practices.
The Pre-waste partnership
The 10 Project partners are public entities directly involved in the
planning or in the implementation of waste management policies according
to their competences: Marche Region – Project Leader (IT, ACR+ member; with the help of SVIM acting as Technical Secretariat), ACR+ – Association of Cities and Regions for Recycling and for sustainable Resource management, ORDIF – Ile-de-France Region Waste Management Observatory (FR, ACR+ partner member), IBGE – Brussels Environment (BE, ACR+ member), Municipality of Roquetas de Mar (ES), Municipality of Sofia (BG, ACR+ member),
Public Cooperation Department of Ilfov County (RO), Municipality of
Karlskrona (SE), Tampere Regional Solid Waste Management Ltd (FI) and
WasteServ Malta (MT, ACR+ member). 
The Pre-waste project is co-funded by the INTERREG IV C programme of the European Commission.
What are the main benefits of prevention for local and regional authorities?
- reducing their costs in terms of waste collection, treatment (recycling or incineration) and eventual disposal,
- reducing energy consumption needed for the above mentioned operations,
- reducing CO2 emissions and the release of other pollutant substances in the air, the water and the ground.
More information: www.prewaste.eu
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As ACR+ is providing its expertise with Pre-waste, contributing to
the development of tools for lowering the ecological footprint of
public authorities, ACR+ has created a guide for setting up low
environmental impact events.