Database of case studies

This page gathers all the case studies of the INTHERWASTE project on waste management in Heritage cities. The practices come from within the partnership (Córdoba, Ibiza, Krakow, Porto, Tallinn) as well as other cities.

They are divided according to different themes explored during INTHERWASTE thematic seminars.

1. Waste Deposit in Heritage Areas

Waste houses/Stores/Ecopoints

• Córdoba: Ecopoints-Waste Rooms
• Tallinn: Waste Storehouses

Special procedures and agreements arranged

• Florence: Implementation process of underground waste collection
• Krakow: Deposit/recovery from 6am to 10am
• Córdoba: Agreements with great producers for door-to-door collection
• Porto: Agreements with great producers for door-to-door collection
• Ibiza: Implementation of mobile clean point
  

Container-systems in Heritage areas

• Florence: Underground stations in Unesco sites
• Tallinn: Underground containers for mixed waste
• Porto: Underground containers
• Krakow: Unified contrainer-system
• Ibiza: Adaptation of waste glass containers for better commercial waste collection
  

2. Selective Collection in Heritage Areas

Use of a specific instrument serving separate collection

• Krakow: "Bring-in sites"
• Bergen: Underground waste system / Flexible fee
• Tallinn: Deposit packaging refund system
• Ibiza: Awareness campaigns on selective collection

Management/Strategy related to selective collection scheme

• Córdoba: Separate collection dry-moist fraction
• Porto: Interaction and Integration of different collection systems
• Krakow: Selective waste collection services for bulky waste, green waste, WEEEs and waste textiles

Specific fraction

• Tallinn: Separate collection of used clothing
• Ibiza: Specific collection of commercial paperboard
• Córdoba: Promotion of separation in the organic fraction
• Porto: Food waste selective collection
  

3. Urban Integration in Heritage Areas

Integration with the Urban Décor

• Porto: Creating the "Perfect Spot" from the renewal of an old system
• Krakow: The maintenance of cleanliness and order in the city
  
• Tallinn: Restrictions on waste collection in the Old town
• Tallinn: Location of waste containers in the Old town

Aesthetic solutions

• Bornholm: Aesthetic integration in the city
• Córdoba: Covers for containers in the historical city centre
• Ibiza: Aesthetic integration of the bins in the area of Dalt Vila
• Porto: Encasement solutions to improve urban integration
• Krakow: Aesthetic solutions in the waste management system
  

4. Waste Minimization in Heritage Areas

Financial (dis)incentives

• Barcelona: Fee-rebate scheme in the waste charge of the Metropolitan Area
• Miravet: Pay-as-you-throw
  
• Warsaw: The Vistula District along the river
• Córdoba: Pay-as-you-throw for Businesses

Countering Food Waste

• Bruges: Innovation to reduce Food waste in health care facilities
• Ibiza: Boc'n'Roll: Raising awareness on Food waste in schools
• Tallinn: Estonian Food Bank against Food waste

Organic Waste reduction

• Córdoba: "The Little Garden" project in schools