ACR+ organised a conference titled "Waste Management in Tourism. Does it even matter?" at the Balsamine Theatre in Brussels on 7 May 2019. The culmination of the three-year-long URBAN-WASTE project, which includes our association among its 27 partners, the conference summarised the outcomes of the project participants’ efforts to promote sustainable waste management in urban tourist destinations.
To wrap up the project, ACR+ organised the final URBAN-WASTE conference "Waste Management in Tourism. Does it Even Matter?" at the Balsamine Theatre in Brussels on 7 May 2019. The event wa an opportunity to look back at the 11 participants' efforts, approaches, methodologies and the results that they achieved through the strategies developed and implemented during the project.
An impressive lineup of experts in and representatives of various subfields of tourism and the 11 participating cities and regions discussed the results, outputs, figures and overall experiences through storytelling, interactive presentations and panel discussions. Keynote speakers and panelists included Françoise Bonnet, ACR+'s Secretary General, Gudrun Obersteiner of BOKU University, Erik Louw of TU Delft, the Government of the Canary Islands, and facilitators from the European Commission.
The final conference "Waste Management in Tourism. Does it Even Matter?" is the most comprehensive public discussion of the results of the URBAN-WASTE project and of possible ways forward for municipal waste management.