City Baseline Reports on Local Waste Streams and Policies: Riga, Tartu, Kavala, Barcelona
EUKI project CURE+ project aims to improve the management of municipal waste through the reuse of useful waste by respecting the principles of the circular economy. Four project municipalities – Riga, Tartu, Kavala and Barcelona develop pilot urban resource centres aiming to reduce unnecessary resource depletion.
Four city baseline reports are prepared to describe current state-of-the-art situation related to local waste streams and local policies/ initiatives/ programmes/ innovations regarding circular practices. Studies are based on the desk analysis and interviews with the key stakeholders. The goals of the interviews are threefold: 1) to gather and validate factual information about current waste streams and related policies; 2) to discuss possible bottlenecks, challenges, and room for improvements in the current situation; 3) to discuss knowledge/capacity gaps among staff and public. The baseline studies generate valuable input for further implementation of the project – creation of pilot urban resource centres and developing policy recommendations.
Baseline study: City of Riga, Latvia. Sara Rueda Raya, Frazen Tolentino-Zondervan, Willem van Winden, Patricia van Hemert
Baseline study: City of Tartu, Estonia. Sara Rueda Raya, Frazen Tolentino-Zondervan, Willem van Winden, Patricia van Hemert
Baseline study: City of Kavala, Greece. Sara Rueda Raya, Frazen Tolentino-Zondervan, Patricia van Hemert, Willem van Winden
Baseline study: City of Barcelona, Spain. Sara Rueda Raya, Frazen Tolentino-Zondervan, Willem van Winden
Riga Energy Agency is implementing EUKI project CURE+ in cooperation with the Tartu City Government, Municipality of Kavala, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences and Elisava Barcelona School of Engineering and Design. The project aims to improve the management of construction and demolition waste generated by households through reuse and repair respecting the principles of the circular economy.