Urban Strategies for Waste Management in Tourist Cities D2.7 – Compendium of Waste Management Practices in Pilot Cities and Best Practices in Touristic Cities
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URBAN‐WASTE – 690452 – D2.7 URBAN‐WASTE Urban strategies for Waste Management in Tourist Cities D2.7 – Compendium of waste management practices in pilot cities and best practices in touristic cities Grant Agreement No: WASTE‐6b‐2015 690452 Project Acronym: URBAN‐WASTE Project Title: Urban Strategies for Waste Management in Tourist Cities Horizon 2020: Eco‐Innovative Strategies: “Waste: a resource to recycle, reuse and Funding scheme : recover raw materials” Project Coordinator: Gobierno de Canarias (Government of Canary Islands) Start date of the project : 01/06/2016 Duration of the project: 36 months Contractual delivery date: 31/01/2017 Actual delivery date: 13/02/2017 Contributing WP: 2 Dissemination level: Public Editors: Gruber Iris Obersteiner Gudrun Contributing Authors: BJØRN OLSEN Trine, DE LUCA Claudia, ERIKSSON Mattias, GROßE Juliane, GRUBER Iris, KAZERONI Marie, KOVÁCS Erneszt, MAYERHOFER Johannes, OBERSTEINER Gudrun, RAMUSCH Roland, ROMEIN Arie, ZAPATA ARANDA Pilar The sole responsibility for the content of this report lies with the authors. It does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the European Union. Neither EASME nor the European Commission are responsible for any use that may be made of the information contained therein Abstract This report (Deliverable D2.7) refers to URBANWASTE Work Package 2, Task 2.8. Under this Task the current waste prevention and management practices in the URBANWASTE pilot cases are investigated and best practices coming from the EU context (focussing on touristic processes) are identified. This document shall support the selection of innovative strategies to be carried out within Work Package WP 4. A comparative policy review of national waste management strategies and targets in the European Union (EU) showed that there is no separate field of policies and instruments for waste generated by tourism neither on European level nor on the national level of EU member states. The identified waste prevention and management strategies already existing in the URBANWASTE pilot cities as well as international best practice examples can be allocated to well‐known policy instruments mainly based on information and awareness building as well as provision of infrastructure (e.g. bins for separate collection of food waste). But also regulatory instruments (e.g. ban of plastic bags), economic instruments and voluntary agreements (e.g. use of returnable containers) could be identified. Both, existing waste management and prevention practices in pilot cities as well as international best practices focus on nutrition of tourists. Most measures deal with food waste prevention as well as food waste management. The low‐waste organisation of events and the promotion of re‐use activities were also identified to be promising topics to reduce tourist waste generation. The promotion of resource consciousness in procurement amongst tourist accommodation establishments as well as food and beverage providers for tourists is another positive example identified. Most identified international best practice examples connected to tourist waste management refer to eco labelling and connected guidelines. The hotel industry can considerably reduce their waste generation by implementing and following a waste management system. One interesting knowledge gained from international best practice examples is the recommendation to elaborate an extended inventory of waste types and sources as first step for waste prevention measures. D2.7 – Compendium of waste management 2 practices in pilot cities and best practices in touristic cities Contributors NAME COMPANY CONTRIBUTIONS INCLUDE Iris GRUBER Johannes MAYERHOFER Universität für Bodenkultur Wien (BOKU) Chapters 1, 2, 4, 4.9, 4.11, 5 Gudrun OBERSTEINER Roland RAMUSCH Technische Universiteit Delft (Delft Arie ROMEIN Chapters 3 and 4.5 University of Technology) Sveriges Lantbruksuniversitet – Swedish Mattias ERIKSSON Chapter 4.7 University of Agricultural Sciences Juliane GROßE University of Copenhagen Chapter 4.9 Fundo Regional para a Ciência e Gisela MC. NASCIMENTO Chapter 4.8 Tecnologia‐ FRCT Trine BJØRN OLSEN Aarhus University ‐ AU Herning Chapter 4.1 CE ‐ CONSULTA EUROPA PROJECTS AND Claudia DE LUCA Chapter 4.3 INNOVATION SL Pilar ZAPATA ARANDA Bioazul Contributing to chapters 4.9 and 4.11 Marie KAZERONI ORDIF ‐ Paris Region Waste Observatory Chapters 4.4, 4.6 and 4.10 ACR+ ‐ ASSOCIATION DES CITES ET DES Erneszt KOVÁCS REGIONS POUR LE RECYCLAGE ET LA Chapter 4.2 GESTION DURABLE DES RESSOURCES D2.7 – Compendium of waste management 3 practices in pilot cities and best practices in touristic cities List of abbreviations WMP Waste Management Plan MSW Municipal solid waste GPP Green Public Procurement D2.7 – Compendium of waste management 4 practices in pilot cities and best practices in touristic cities Table of Contents Summary ....................................................................................................................................... 10 Glossary ........................................................................................................................................ 14 1. Introduction .......................................................................................................................... 15 2. Approach .............................................................................................................................. 16 3. Comparative Policy Review of National Waste Management Strategies and Targets in the European Union (EU) ..................................................................................................................... 17 3.1 Introduction: Why drawing attention to EU waste policies? ............................................... 17 3.2 EU waste policy framework ................................................................................................. 18 3.2.1 Changed approach to waste and waste policy ................................................................ 18 3.2.2 Strategies, policies, key policy documents and targets ................................................... 19 3.2.3 Significance of EU waste policy for national legislation on solid tourism‐related waste 21 3.3 Country summaries of municipal waste policies .................................................................. 21 3.3.1 Introduction ..................................................................................................................... 21 3.3.2 Waste and waste management policies .......................................................................... 22 3.3.2.1 Group I ................................................................................................................................. 24 3.3.2.2 Group II ................................................................................................................................ 24 3.3.2.3 Reference Group .................................................................................................................. 25 3.3.3 Performance of waste management strategies .............................................................. 26 3.3.3.1 Generation of municipal waste ........................................................................................... 26 3.3.3.2 Landfilling ............................................................................................................................ 28 3.3.3.3 Recycling .............................................................................................................................. 30 3.4 Conclusion ............................................................................................................................ 32 4. Current Waste Prevention and Management Practices in Pilot Cities .................................... 34 4.1 Copenhagen (DK) ................................................................................................................. 35 4.1.1 Brief description of the URBANWASTE pilot case area ................................................... 35 4.1.2 Description of Waste Prevention Actions ........................................................................ 37 4.1.3 Description of Municipal Solid Waste Collection ............................................................ 39 4.1.4 Collection of Waste from Tourist Establishments ........................................................... 45 4.1.5 Description of waste from touristic ships ........................................................................ 45 4.2 Dubrovnik (HR) ..................................................................................................................... 46 4.2.1 Brief description of the URBANWASTE pilot case area ................................................... 46 4.2.2 Description of Waste Prevention Actions ........................................................................ 46 4.2.3 Description of Municipal Solid Waste Collection ............................................................ 46 4.2.4 Collection of Waste from Tourist Establishments ........................................................... 49 4.2.5 Description of waste from touristic ships ........................................................................ 49 4.3 Florence (IT) ......................................................................................................................... 50 4.3.1 Brief description of the URBANWASTE pilot case area ................................................... 50 4.3.2 Description