DECISIVE

The DECISIVE project – A DECentralised management Scheme for Innovative Valorisation of urban biowastE – aims to help with the reform of urban waste management systems for our ever-growing cities and populations.

Project co-funded by the European Commission, under the Horizon 2020 programme.

Highlights

The project assessed policy and economic barriers and opportunities for the development of decentralised bio-waste systems during its first Focus Group meeting hosted by ACR+ and its member Brussels Environment on 1 April 2019. It brought together diverse stakeholders and partners from other international projects, initiatives and research institutes with their own variations of such systems. Following this, the project consortium had its General Assembly, in particular to look at the two project demonstration sites in Lyon and Barcelona which will be launched this autumn by respectively Refarmers and the Catalan Waste Agency.

THE PROJECT

THE PROJECT

This project aims to alter the current urban metabolism for organic matter, energy and biowaste, to a more circular economic model and to assess the impacts of these changes on the whole waste management cycle.

The project will thus contribute to change the management of urban organic material fluxes from a linear paradigm (import of goods without thoughtful interaction between external, peri- and intra-urban area, consumption, external disposal of waste) to a circular paradigm. It will help moving waste management towards a "Zero-Waste" strategy and to achieve the objectives of the European Resource Efficiency Roadmap.

ACTIVITIES

ACTIVITIES

The objective of the DECISIVE project is to demonstrate the ability to decrease the generation of urban waste (from household or assimilated) and increase recycling and recovery by focusing efforts on decentralised management and valorisation of the organic fraction of waste, i.e. biowaste, in a short cycle.

The consortium will develop new processes allowing to treat municipal bio-waste in urban and peri-urban context, namely micro-scale anaerobic digestion units allowing to treat the bio-waste production of a district and solid stade fermentation plants to produce valuable bioproducts out of the micro-AD’s digestate.

PARTNERS INVOLVED

PARTNERS INVOLVED

DECISIVE’s project coordinator is Irstea (Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l’environnement et agriculture, FR) and its project partners are:

Aeris, Aeris Tecnologías Ambientales S.L. (ES)
ARC*, Agencia de Residus de Catalunya (ES)
AU, Aarhus Universitet (DK)
ENT*, Fundació ENT (ES)
GEOMAR, Helmholtz Zentrum Fur Ozeanforschung Kiel (DE)
ACR+, Association of Cities and Regions for Sustainable Resource Management (BE)
ITS, Innovative Technological Systems SRL (IT)
PSUtec, PSUtec SPRL (BE)
Refarmers (FR)
SE*, SUEZ Environnement (FR)
TUHH, Technische Universitaet Hamburg-Harburg (DE)
UAB, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (ES)
* ACR+ member

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