International Pre-waste workshop Sharing ways to tackle municipal waste prevention in cities & regions

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1 Preliminary International Pre-waste workshop Sharing ways to tackle municipal waste prevention in cities & regions 28 March 2011, Brussels Venue: Radisson Blu Royal Hotel Brussels Rue du Fossé-aux-loups 47, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium The workshop The International Pre-waste workshop is organised by Brussels Environment (IBGE) in the context of the European Pre-Waste project for reducing municipal waste generation in cities and regions (see details below). This workshop will gather players involved in the waste prevention field at local and regional level, as well as European Commission officials and other interested parties to exchange experiences. It will put the spotlight on some of the 50 Good Practices identified by the pre-waste project, as well as on waste prevention planning and the role of indicators and targets. The objective is notably to discuss how good practices have been implemented, but also suitable indicators to measure their effectiveness and key factors that would enable their transfer to other locations. Held in English only, the workshop is free to all those who wish to attend. However, the number of participants is limited. To express your interest to participate please contact: Stephanie Mantell: The Pre-waste project Pre-waste is a three-year European project ( ) with an aim to help local and regional authorities improve their waste prevention policies, in order to significantly reduce the production of waste, and its hazards. In particular, the project will deliver: some 50 good examples of actions for waste prevention implemented in the European Union by local or regional authorities pertinent indicators and a web tool to enable assessment and monitoring of these waste prevention actions. analysis of the factors that enable the transfer of such actions from one territory to another. 1

2 Pre-waste achievements to date Dematerialisation in Offices in Belgium, bulk sales in Italy, food wastage prevention in the UK, ban on disposable dishes in Germany, ecotax in Romania By September 2010, partners had gathered more than 100 case studies related to waste prevention from 18 EU countries. These were integrated into a Mapping report by Brussels Environment, the partner coordinating the exchange of experiences. In the meantime, ORDIF analysed waste prevention indicators used in the past, and proposed a framework for monitoring resource use, results, and impacts of such initiatives. Besides the geographical diversity, the initiatives collected reflect a great variety not only in waste streams (packaging, paper, bio-waste...) and target audiences (general public, schools, businesses ), but also in the type of instruments used (regulatory, economic, voluntary, educational ). In October 2010, partner experts jointly identified some 50 Good Practices of particular interest among these cases, for which even more complete data will be gathered. Similar initiatives will be compared to better understand differences in approaches and territorial specificities. Next steps On 28 March 2011, the International Pre-waste workshop in Brussels will gather players involved in the waste prevention field at local and regional level as well as European Commission officials and other interested parties to exchange experiences, notably on the 50 or so Good Practices identified. By June 2011, which marks the half-way point of the project, the data will be made available to the public online in the form of 50 detailed factsheets. Each partner will later choose one or several of these good practices and carry out a feasibility study to implement them locally. Indicators will be developed further to provide concrete recommendations. Partners The project involves 10 EU partners who are committed to sharing their expertise in waste prevention and waste management: Marche Region Project Leader (Italy) with the help of SVIM acting as Technical Secretariat ACR+ Association of Cities and Regions for Recycling and for sustainable Resource management (European network), ORDIF Ile-de-France Region Waste Management Observatory (France), IBGE Brussels Environment (Belgium), Municipality of Roquetas de Mar (Spain), Municipality of Sofia (Bulgaria), Public Cooperation Department of Ilfov County (Romania), Municipality of Karlskrona (Sweden), Tampere Regional Solid Waste Management Ltd (Finland) and WasteServ Malta Ltd (Malta). The Pre-waste project is co-financed by the European and made possible by the INTERREG IVC Programme. 2

3 09:00 Draft Pre-waste Workshop Programme Sharing ways to tackle municipal waste prevention in cities & regions 28 March 2011 Registration of participants Plenary sessions Chair: Jean-Pierre Hannequart, Director General Brussels Environment 09:30 Welcome: Local & Regional waste prevention planning in EU context Speakers: Evelyne Huytebroeck, Minister for Environment and Energy of the Brussels-Capital Region (*); Michel Sponar/Diana Oncea, European Commission DG Environment; Marche Region Lead partner of Pre-waste project Session 1: Regulatory and ecomomic waste prevention instruments Bans, quotas, guidelines, taxation, consumer card scheme, awards Speakers: Françoise Bonnet, Brussels Environment Henning Wilts, Wuppertal Institute 10:45 Coffee Break Session 2: Good practices in waste prevention and use of indicators Pre-waste indicator framework, target setting, monitoring experiences Speakers: Lars Fogh Mortensen/Almut Reichel, European Environment Agency Jean-Benoit Bel, ORDIF 12:20 Lunch 13:00 Poster session The objective of this session is to enable one-to-one exchanges between participants on specific local and regional waste prevention practices (waste prevention plans, individual pre-waste actions, and the use of targets and indicators). Pre-waste partners and other workshop participants are invited to actively contribute by preparing a poster for this session (contact organisers for details: Stephanie Mantell [email protected]). (speaker with (*) to be confirmed) 3

4 Parallel Sessions 13:45 Session 3a: Sustainable consumption, production & lifestyles Coaching of households, awareness raising weeks, paper dematerialisation Chair: Lydie Ougier, ADEME Speakers: Harma Albering, C2C; waste prevention practitioners involved in good practices identified by the Pre-waste project Session 3b: Avoiding Packaging Shopping bags, cups, plates, cutlery, bottles, tap water Chair: Roberto Cavallo, AICA Speakers : waste prevention practitioners involved in good practices identified by the Pre-waste project 15:15 Coffee Break 15:45 Session 4a: Rental, repair & reuse of goods Repair guides & centres, clothes library, nappies Chair: Kit Strange, Resource Recovery Forum Speakers: Sepp Eisenriegler, RUSZ & RREUSE; Lina Lundin, Stockholm clothes library; other waste prevention practitioners involved in good practices identified by the Pre-waste project Session 4b: Avoiding food wastage in Schools, Restaurants, Households Chair: Jean-Jacques Dohogne, ACR+ Speakers: Patrice Gruszkowski, European Commission DG Environment, Christina Oden, EUREST; Dimitra Rappou, North London Waste Authorit 17:15 Session 5: Closing plenary Feedback from parallel sessions and wrap-up Chair: Jean-Pierre Hannequart, Director General Brussels Environment Speakers: chair persons of the parallel sessions; Stephanie Mantell, Brussels Environment 18:00 End 18:30 21:00 European Week for Waste Reduction Awards Ceremony Evening including Cocktail (upon separate registration only In the presence of Janez Potocnik, European Commissioner for the Environment; Evelyne Huytebroeck, Minister for Environment and Energy of the Brussels-Capital Region; Laureates of EWWR awards (speaker with (*) to be confirmed) 4

5 Practical Info Venue: Radisson Blu Royal Hotel Brussels, Rue du Fossé-auxloups 47, B-1000 Brussels, Belgium. The workshop venue is near Brussels Central railway station and métro station De Brouckère. The hotel is just 3 kilometers away from the historical centre of Brussels and 12 kilometers from the Brussels International Airport. Accommodation: List of hotels certified by the Brussels-Capital Region with the environmental label Eco-dynamic company : Resotel: Bed and breakfast: Getting there: RAIL: The workshop venue is near Brussels Central railway station and métro station De Broukère, Brussels Central Station which runs both international and national trains and connects directly to Brussels Midi Station - the terminal for Eurostar services to London (1h55) and Thalys services to Paris (1h25) and Amsterdam (1h55) can easily be reached by foot. The next metro station De Brouckère can be walked in three minutes and connects to Midi Station, too as well as to the whole underground system of Brussels. Belgian railways: Thalys: - Eurostar: AIR: Brussels International Airport is only 17 minutes away from the city centre and the workshop venue. A direct train shuttle from the airport stops at Brussels Central, the railway station near the workshop venue. Charleroi Airport, sometimes referred to as Brussels South, is further away about 1 ½ hours by shuttle & metro or bus & rail. Brussels Airport: Charleroi Airport: CITY TRANSPORT: There are numerous metro links, bus and tram stops close by. You can also hail a licensed taxi from Central Station or hire a city bike from two nearby terminals. Public transport: Brussels by bike: 5