Supporting EU regions to curb plastics waste and littering

Programme 2014 - 2020 Interreg Europe

Date of latest update: 2023-12-02

Description

Description (EN):

CURBING PLASTICS WASTE AND LITTERING IN EU REGIONS: The widespread plastic pollution necessitates a strong reaction from EU regions, to address growing environmental and health concerns. PLASTECO, in line with the “European Strategy for Plastics in a Circular Economy”, will support participating territories to take the steps necessary for a transition towards a “new plastics economy”; the focus will be on advances in waste management, eradication of single-use plastics from regional value chains, and spurring growth through eco-innovation. PLASTECO will cover the areas of waste management, public procurement, funding/investments, secondary raw materials, and awareness raising. OBJECTIVE: PLASTECO will support 8 partners from 8 EU countries, through joint policy learning efforts and exchanges of experiences, to benefit from the momentum of the EU plastics strategy and achieve their goals in terms of protecting the environment, increasing resource efficiency, alleviating health effects, and boosting innovation. PLASTECO will enable partners and key stakeholders to: a) assess the current situation, potential, and barriers in their regions, b) identify pathways for sustainable growth in plastics value-chains, and c) design and put into effect new policy measures and regulations. EXPECTED IMPACT: -Increased capacity of 180 staff of public administrations to effectively support new growth trajectories & energy security. -19 million euros unlocked to support projects on plastic reuse, eco-innovation, alternative technologies. -Increased awareness & consensus building among plastic producers and consumers/the public. MAIN OUTPUTS & BENEFICIARIES: -8 action plans to improve the addressed policies, benefiting managing authorities & stakeholders. -4 interregional workshops, 2 study visits, and 2 joint policy planning and strategic review procedures, to promote capacity building among partners and stakeholders. -3 joint thematic studies on territorial needs and good practices.

Achievements (EN): In terms of activities, the project has organised a total of 65 policy learning events. It has also identified 28 good practices, produced 8 action plans and led to the increased capacity of 184 people.

Website: https://www.interregeurope.eu/interreg-europe-2014-2020

Expected Results (EN):

OVERALL GOAL: The project aims to support the represented regions to exchange experiences, benefit from the provisions and momentum of the EU plastics strategy, and, ultimately, achieve their goals in terms of protecting the environment, increasing resource efficiency, alleviating health effects, and boosting innovation. PLASTECO will cover the areas of waste management, public procurement, funding/investments, secondary raw materials, and awareness raising. More specifically, the project sets the following operational objectives: 1. Advance territorial waste management planning (separation, collection, and recycling of plastic waste), and accelerate the achievement of targets for plastics recycling. 2. Encourage the phasing out of plastics packaging in public procurement, and develop guidelines for relevant green public procurement criteria. 3. Facilitate and encourage the emergence, acceptance and uptake of plastic packaging alternative solutions and reverse logistics business models. 4. Promote awareness and acceptance of use of recycled plastics in products. 5. Improve both monitoring and curbing of aquatic litter. 6. Propose uses of structural funds to increase the capacities of regional value chains as concerns innovative solutions and technologies.

Expected Outputs (EN):

A) EXCHANGE OF EXPERIENCE - 1 Workshop on urban water management policies and practices to reduce microplastics leakage to the environment. - 2 Workshops on fostering eco-innovation and the market placement of single-use plastics alternatives. - 1 workshop on how to raise awareness on plastic littering and promote the purchase of products from recycled plastics. - 1 Study visit on effective waste management policies and measures to reduce plastics waste landfilling and incineration. - 1 Study visit on aquatic plastics litter clean-up practices and efforts. - 1 Joint policy peer-review process on public procurement practices. - 1 Joint strategic review process of growth trajectories. - 8 stakeholder groups. - 48 meetings with stakeholder groups. - 8 Action plans. - 1 Assessment report on territorial-specific economic and social barriers against more sustainable plastic consumption and production patterns. - 1 Comparative analysis of policies to promote the separation, sorting and recycling of plastics waste at partners’ territories. - 1 Report for the identification of measures to curb aquatic litter and facilitate clean-up efforts. - 48 intra-organisational debriefing meetings. - 32 good practices identified. Results:180 partners' staff members with increased capacity (knowledge / skills); 50 local, regional, and national authorities (further to PLASTECO partners), responsible for waste management and environmental legislation in consortium countries, capitalising upon project outputs to design policies and implement relevant measures. The 8 policy instruments addressed will be improved in terms of management (especially by integrating or expanding the use of criteria that speed-up the progress of phasing out single-use plastics), and fund new projects for plastic recycling and the creation of new jobs in the context of a “new plastics economy”. B) COMMUNICATION AND DISSEMINATION Outputs: 1 website, networking pages, updates of web resources, semi-annual newsletters, 56 press releases, 1 sustainability plan, 1 brochure printed in 5000 copies and disseminated in 8 countries, 1 poster printed in 300 copies and disseminated in 8 countries, 8 infodays. Results: 48 appearances on the media, 1000 participants in all events, 500 (on average) new visits to the project’s website each semester, 1400 followers of project’s networking pages, at least 1200 external stakeholders reached. C) PROJECT MANAGEMENT Outputs: 1 partnership agreement signed by all partners, 1 operational workplan (2 updates / semester), 1 set of quality management guidelines, 6 steering group meetings, 1 monitoring meetings in phase 2, 8 progress reports. Results: Continuous & effective day-to-day administrative, financial and technical coordination between partners, achievement of all project's objectives, project having reached its targets and KPIs in terms of outputs & results, 100% of project’s budget properly spent.

Thematic information

Waste and pollution

Specific Objective: Improve the implementation of regional development policies and programmes, in particular programmes for Investment for Growth and Jobs and, where relevant, ETC programmes, aimed at increasing resource-efficiency, green growth and eco-innovation and environmental performance management

Thematic Objective: (06) preserving and protecting the environment and promoting resource efficiency by:

Investment Priority: (06g) supporting industrial transition towards a resource- efficient economy, promoting green growth, eco-innovation and environmental performance management in the public and private sectors

Partners (8)

Lead Partner: Δήμος Ρεθύμνης

Address: 80, Kountourioti Avenue, 74132 Rethymno, Greece

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.rethymno.gr

Total budget: EUR 424 315.00

ERDF budget: EUR 360 667.75

Agentia pentru Dezvoltare Regionala Bucuresti-Ilfov

Name: Agentia pentru Dezvoltare Regionala Bucuresti-Ilfov

Address: 163 Mihai Eminescu Street, 020076 Bucharest, Romania

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.adrbi.ro

Total budget: EUR 146 680.00

ERDF budget: EUR 124 678.00

Biedrība Baltijas krasti

Name: Biedrība Baltijas krasti

Address: Maskavas iela 127, LV-1003 Riga, Latvia

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.baltijaskrasti.lv

Total budget: EUR 159 219.00

ERDF budget: EUR 119 414.25

Агенция за регионално икономическо развитие – Стара Загора

Name: Агенция за регионално икономическо развитие – Стара Загора

Address: 127 Gen. Stoletov Blvd., 6000 Stara Zagora, Bulgaria

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.szeda.eu

Total budget: EUR 159 863.00

ERDF budget: EUR 135 883.55

Traegerverein Umwelttechnologie-Cluster Bayern e. V.

Name: Traegerverein Umwelttechnologie-Cluster Bayern e. V.

Address: Am Mittleren Moos 48, 86167 Augsburg, Germany

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.umweltcluster.net

Total budget: EUR 170 375.00

ERDF budget: EUR 127 781.25

Amt der Steiermärkischen Landesregierung Abteilung 14 – Wasserwirtschaft, Ressourcen und Nachhaltigkeit

Name: Amt der Steiermärkischen Landesregierung Abteilung 14 – Wasserwirtschaft, Ressourcen und Nachhaltigkeit

Department: Department: Waste und Resource Management

Address: Wartingergasse 43, 8010 Graz, Austria

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.abfallwirtschaft.steiermark.at

Total budget: EUR 191 992.00

ERDF budget: EUR 163 193.20

Regione Lombardia

Name: Regione Lombardia

Department: Directorate General Environment and Climate Change

Address: Piazza Città di Lombardia 1, 20124 Milano, Italy

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.regione.lombardia.it

Total budget: EUR 193 100.00

ERDF budget: EUR 164 135.00

Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Énergie Environnement

Name: Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Énergie Environnement

Address: 18 rue Gabriel Péri, 69100 Villeurbanne, France

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.auvergnerhonealpes-ee.fr

Total budget: EUR 201 764.00

ERDF budget: EUR 171 499.40

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Summary

Project name (EN): Supporting EU regions to curb plastics waste and littering

Project acronym: PLASTECO

Project start date: 2019-08-01

Project end date: 2023-07-31

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 1 647 308.00

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 1 367 252.40

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 1 367 252.40.

Documents

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Reports

Action plan - Bulgaria

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://projects2014-2020.interregeurope.eu/plasteco/

Publication date: 2024-08-19

Document date: 2023-07-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Action plan - France

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://projects2014-2020.interregeurope.eu/plasteco/

Publication date: 2024-08-19

Document date: 2022-07-08

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Action plan - Germany

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://projects2014-2020.interregeurope.eu/plasteco/

Publication date: 2024-08-19

Document date: 2022-06-27

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Action plan - Latvia

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://projects2014-2020.interregeurope.eu/plasteco/

Publication date: 2024-08-19

Document date: 2022-07-20

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Action plan - Regione Lombardia, Italy

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://projects2014-2020.interregeurope.eu/plasteco/

Publication date: 2024-08-19

Document date: 2022-07-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Action plan - Romania

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://projects2014-2020.interregeurope.eu/plasteco/

Publication date: 2024-08-19

Document date: 2022-06-21

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Action plan - Styria, Austria

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://projects2014-2020.interregeurope.eu/plasteco/

Publication date: 2024-08-19

Document date: 2022-07-20

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Action plan of the Municipality of Rethymno

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://projects2014-2020.interregeurope.eu/plasteco/

Publication date: 2024-08-19

Document date: 2022-06-14

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Report on measures to curb aquatic litter and facilitate clean-up efforts

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://projects2014-2020.interregeurope.eu/plasteco/

Publication date: 2024-08-19

Document date: 2020-07-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Report on territorial - specific economic and social barriers against more sustainable plastic consumption and production patterns

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://projects2014-2020.interregeurope.eu/plasteco/

Publication date: 2024-08-19

Document date: 2020-06-30

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Studies / surveys

Comparative analysis of policies to promote the separation, sorting and recycling of plastic waste at partners' territories

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Study / survey

Data source: https://projects2014-2020.interregeurope.eu/plasteco/

Publication date: 2024-08-19

Document date: 2020-12-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Input paper for the interregional workshop on how to facilitate the market placement off alternatives for single-use plastics

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Study / survey

Data source: https://projects2014-2020.interregeurope.eu/plasteco/

Publication date: 2024-08-19

Document date: 2020-11-30

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Input paper for the interregional workshop on how to raise awareness on plastic littering and promote the purchase of products from recycled plastics

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Study / survey

Data source: https://projects2014-2020.interregeurope.eu/plasteco/

Publication date: 2024-08-19

Document date: 2021-01-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Input paper for the interregional workshop on how to support regional businesses to invest on eco-innovation in plastic production and reuse

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Study / survey

Data source: https://projects2014-2020.interregeurope.eu/plasteco/

Publication date: 2024-08-19

Document date: 2021-01-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Input paper for the study visit on effective waste management policies & measures to reduce plastic waste landfilling & incineration

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Study / survey

Data source: https://projects2014-2020.interregeurope.eu/plasteco/

Publication date: 2024-08-19

Document date: 2023-07-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Interregional workshop on urban water management policies and practices to reduce microplastics leakage to the enviroment

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Study / survey

Data source: https://projects2014-2020.interregeurope.eu/plasteco/

Publication date: 2024-08-19

Document date: 2023-07-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

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2014 - 2020 Interreg Europe

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Supporting EU regions to curb plastics waste and littering

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