Waste Management Intelligent Systems and Policies

Innovation in waste management (like smart bins, use of smart apps, new digital imaging techniques, innovative business models, …) offer an excellent opportunity to improve policies aiming to minimise waste generation and promote resource efficiency. It is no surprise that innovation is a key component of the European Green Deal and Circular Economy Action Plan. However, the degree of introduction of innovative equipment and practices varies significantly from one territory to another.

Starting from this paradigm, the 9 partners of the Interreg Europe WINPOL project joined forces to mainstream the use of intelligent equipment and related waste management policies on their territories and beyond.

Thanks to WINPOL, partners exchanged experience and identified good practices, but most importantly they developed Action Plans to improve their own waste policies, putting into practice the knowledge gained.

After four and a half years, the WINPOL adventure will come to an end this autumn. Before closing the curtain down, the WINPOL partners invited their followers to travel back on their steps and discuss not only the successes achieved at project level but also the progresses made in the use of intelligent systems and policies in waste management.

Presentations

• Presentation of the organiser, ACR+
  Francesco Lembo, ACR+
  
• Summary of Thematic Seminar #1: Collection and use of information to optimise waste management
  Marie Claire Attard Bason, Environment and Resources Authority Malta
• Good practice: Use of information and data in the waste field in Amsterdam
  Paul Koppen, Amsterdam Municipality
• Summary of Thematic Seminar #2: Innovative models for waste collection, prevention, and reuse and recycling
  Gaëlle Colas, ACR+
• Good practice: Innovative waste collection in Bergen
  Emilia Hamarsland Bjånes, Bergen Municipality
• Summary of Thematic Seminar #3: Innovative tariffication
  Alfonso Laruelo Roa, EMULSA
• Good practice: Fair taxation system in Catalonia
  Teresa Guerrero, Catalan Waste Agency
• Good Practice: KAYT – Know as you Throw in LIFE RethinkWaste
  Michele Giavini, ARS Ambiente
• Action Plan  Gijón (ES)
  Sergio de Lucas de Benito, EMULSA
• Action Plan Maribor (SI)
  Špela Mlinarič, SNAGA
• Action Plan Region of Crete (GR)
  Lena Kargakis, Region of Crete
• Action Plan Antwerp (BE)
  Anne Brijs, Antwerp Municipality
• Action Plan Malta
  Marie Claire Attard Bason, Environment and Resources Authority Malta
• Action Plan Mehedinti County (RO)
  Doris Dunarintu, Drobeta Turnu Severin Municipality
• Interreg Europe, an overview
  Jason Martinez, Coordinator Projects - Interreg Europe Secretariat
  

Agenda