Euro-MED0200699
eWAsTER: Preventing e-waste from polluting MED water by turning waste into a resource
https://ewaster.interreg-euro-med.eu
Project consortium:
- Alentejo Science and Technology Park, Portugal (Lead partner)
- Ministry of Sustainability, Environment and Blue Economy, Spain
- Municipality of Rethymno, Greece
- Marche Region, Italy
- Environmental Research Institute, Slovenia
- Municipality of Neum, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Union of Bulgarian Black Sea Local Authorities, Bulgaria
- Union of the Municipalities Pian del Bruscolo, Italy
- Provincial Waste Consortium of Malaga, Spain
- Entrepreneurship and Business Association LiNK, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Aradippou Municipality, Cyprus
Associated organization:
- Assemblea Territoriale d’Ambito ATO2 – Ancona
- S.D.A.K
- Rra severne primorske regijska razvojna agencija d.o.o. NovaGorica
- Nacionalni inštitut za biologijo, Morska biološka postaja Piran
- P.”KOMUNALNO NEUM” D.O.O. NEUM
- Diputación de Málaga RSU
- U. Centar za djecu i omladinu sa posebnim potrebama “Los Rosales”
- Općina Jablanica
- Asen Zlatarov Burgas University
- Beloslav municipality
- Municipality of Devnya
- Burgas Regional Administration
- ΕΦΟΡΕΙΑ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΩΝ ΕΚΠΑΙΔΕΥΤΗΡΙΩΝ ΑΡΑΔΙΠΠΟΥ
- ΑΝΑΠΤΥΞΙΑΚΗ ΛΑΡΝΑΚΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΑΜΟΧΩΣΤΟΥ – ΔΙΑΧΕΙΡΙΣΤΗΣ ΤΟΥ ΟΡΓΑΝΙΣΜΟΥ ΕΠΑΡΧΙΑΚΗΣ ΔΙΑΧΕΙΡΙΣΗΣ ΑΠΟΒΛΗΤΩΝ
Funded: Interreg Euro-MED /Programme priority Greener MED
Specific objective RSO2.6: Promoting the transition to a circular and resource efficient economy
Project mission: Strengthening an innovative sustainable economy
Budget: 2,046,650.00 EUR
Duration: 01.01.2024-30.09.2026
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Description
Background information:
Growing consumption is generating changes in the composition of waste, including ‘new’ waste streams such as electronic. E-waste expose a high environmental risk for MED, as informal recycling, and e-waste abandoned in dumping sites, provide hazardous substances seed into groundwater, affecting water sources, aquifers and sea water. The unification of waste management criteria in the transnational MED area is essential, since otherwise it could facilitate the dynamization of the illegal movement of e-waste from areas with stricter regulations towards areas with more permissive regulations. To stop this threat, it is necessary to take into account common joint planning, and coordinated business promotion.
Project aim: to promote local and regional policies for better e-waste management, to reduce e-waste environmental damage in the selected areas, while promoting new innovative eco-business models based on the conversion of the currently lineal electrical and electronic (E&E) sector into a sustainable circular model.
What is the project?
EWAsTER gather 11 partners and 14 associated, in tandems of technical and political bodies, covering 6 EU MS and 1 IPA country (Bosnia and Herzegovina), which will approve 10 new Waste Management Plans, covering the main recommendations of the “Circular Electronics Initiative” of the EU Circular Economy Action Plan.
How does the project work?
- Drafting of Local Action Plans for Mediterranean e-waste prevention and management
- Joint testing of solutions for e-waste prevention and management in MED
- Deployment of solutions for Transnational e-waste prevention and management
There are 3 pre-identified innovative solutions which will be tested:
- OWEEE PROCURE: This solution promotes a new eco-innovative business models based on the eco-renting of EEE, in cooperation between the demand side and the offer side, which allows the creation of a new ecobusiness
- WEEE BEHAVE: This solution seeks to increase the amount of e-waste collected and delivered to new business, assuring a constant source of material, and a long-term sustainability
- WEEE RE-USE: This solution promotes the creation of new business models for reuse of plastic and providing second life to e-waste, with a focus on creating jobs for vulnerable individuals
Target groups: policy makers and public decision makers, NGO, SME, citizens and general public, pupils in schools
Facebook: eWAsTER Facebook page
Instagram: eWAsTER Instagram page
LinkedIn: eWAsTER LinkedIn
NEWSLETTER #1 / August 2024
