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Euro-Mediterranean strategic platform for a suitable waste management

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Strategic project of the ENPI CBC «Mediterranean Sea Basin Programme»

For the priority of “Promoting the Environmental Sustainability at the

Basin Level”

Included in the Topic of “Waste Treatment and Recycling”

MED-3R aims to contribute to the reduction of waste in the Mediterranean using the triple concept 3R

MED-3R has a budget of 4.7 millions of Euros and is 90% financed by the European Union within the multilateral cross-border cooperation Programme in the Mediterranean Sea Basin (ENPI CBC Med). It is managed by the Métropole Nice Côte d’Azur and brings together 33 partners from 11 different countries. These partners correspond to local, regional and national authorities, consular chambers, networks, universities, and companies.

The project MED-3R [2012-2015] offers an approach established through Mediterranean pilot projects based on different “waste” topics. It promotes cross-border cooperation and aims to strengthen the governance and the participation of public, private, educational and social sectors, for the development of an environmentally sound waste management system.

Recycle waste

Reduce their production

Reemploy to extend the products lifespan

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Contents

The MED-3R strategic platform

The ENPI CBC Med Programme

Pilot projects and partnership

Catering waste

Catering waste

Organic waste and composting

Selective sorting

Selective sorting

Selective sorting

Plastic waste

Plastic waste

Waste of electrical and electronic equipment

Home generated medical waste

Hazardous waste

Islands waste

Other approaches

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in Nice

in Genoa

in Sfax

in Byblos

in Blat

in Nice

in Aqaba

in Genoa and Nice

in Nice

in Nice

in Nice

in Porquerolles

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The unprecedented peaks of pollution and the unrecoverable wastage of raw materials recorded at planetary scale, appeal for a greater awareness and require mandatory implementation of concrete actions. Over-consumption and over-modernization emerge as major causes of this environmental problem. Adequate solutions of prevention and waste treatment appear as fundamental.

The MED-3R strategic platform suggests waste management reforms, by implementing efficient plans and policies, adapted to the Euro-Mediter-ranean context.MED-3R operates on pilot sites located on partners territories and offers efficient services and innovative tools for urban waste management. It is an operational tool of decentralized cooperation linking technicians, engineers, experts, elected officials, social, economic and institutional actors and networks, in an organized manner.

This strategic platform includes:• a collaborative workspace drawn upon PACA

ECOBIZ owned by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Nice Cote d’Azur,

• committees, meetings and technical visits organized between the different partners,

• a project management software open only to partners,

• a website for the general public,• and a social page to interact with the general

public.

The MED-3R project, a Euro-Mediterranean strategic platform for a suitable waste management

MED-3R is part of a context where the development is a priority in a global market characterized by the scarcity of raw materials sources and the bidding on their prices

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The ENPI CBC Med Programme financed by both the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the chapter 4 of EU budget, provides the subsidizing of 76 standard projects and 19 strategic projects, including the MED-3R project, thanks to its budget of 200 Million euros.

Within the framework of the European neighborhood policy aiming to strengthen the cooperation between the European Union countries and the partner countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea, the ENPI CBC Med Programme brings together 14 participating countries including Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Malta, Palestine, Portugal, Spain, Syria (suspended participation) and Tunisia.

The Programme is based on priorities set by the participating countries, promoting environmental sustainability, social and economical development, cultural dialogue and the improvement of mobility conditions for persons, goods and capitals.

It is managed and evaluated by joint structures, decision-making, operational, financial and administrative. The Autonomous Region of Sardinia in Italy is the Joint Managing Authority of the Programme.

The 2007-2013 European Neighborhood Partnership Instrument has been replaced since 2014, by the European Neighborhood Instrument running until 2020. This latter expands a new European neighborhood policy, based on the component ‘cross-border cooperation’. Its goals are backed by the outcomes of its predecessor, its partnership relations are further enhanced, its financial support is streamlined on agreed policy objectives and its programming times are shortened.

The ENPI CBC Med Programme, the cross-border cooperation in the Mediterranean within the framework of the European Neighborhood Instrument

Around 110 million people from 76 different territories are involved in this cross-border cooperation Programme

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MED-3R develops Mediterranean pilot projects based on the following 8 “waste” topics> Catering waste in Nice and Genoa

> Organic waste and composting in Sfax

> Selective sorting in Byblos, Blat and Nice

> Plastic waste in Aqaba, Genoa and Nice

> Waste of electric and electronic equipment in Nice

> Home generated medical waste in Nice

> Hazardous waste in Nice

> Islands waste in Porquerolles

Métropole Nice Côte d’Azur is the MED-3R project leader. This project brings together 15 partners from 5 different countries and 7 associated partners. 11 other partners were integrated the project in its 3rd year, in order to benefit from the experience gained.

1• Métropole Nice Côte d’Azur (France) 2• The Chamber of Commerce and Industry

Nice Côte d’Azur (France)3• The Municipality of Genoa (Italy)4• Ea Eco-entreprises (France)5• The International Office for Water (France)6• The Municipality of Hyeres-les-Palmiers (France)7• The University of Genoa (Italy)8• The Municipality of Sousse (Tunisia)9• The Municipality of Sfax (Tunisia)10• The Municipality of Byblos (Lebanon)11• The Municipality of Blat (Lebanon)12• Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority

(Jordan)13• The National Agency for Waste Management

(Tunisia)14• The Euro-Mediterranean Information system

on know-how in the Water Sector (France)15• The Preparatory School for Engineer Studies

of Sfax (Tunisia)

1• The Prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes (France) 2• The Regional Council in the

Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur (France)3• The Departmental Council of the Alpes-Maritimes

(France)

4• The ACR+ Network (Belgium)5• The Ministry of Environment (Lebanon)6• The MEDCITIES Network (Metropolitan Area

of Barcelona, Spain)7• The SWEEPNET/GIZ Network (Tunisia)

1• The SYVADEC - Corte, Corsica (France)2• The Federation of Municipalities of the Higher

Chouf - Moukhtara (Lebanon)3• The Municipality of Mahdia (Tunisia)4• The Municipality of La Marsa (Tunisia)5• The Municipality of Kruje (Albania)6• The Municipality of Durres (Albania)7• The Regional Council of Tramuntana (Malta)8• The Municipality of Kusadasi and the University

of Dokuz Eylul - Izmir (Turkey)9• The Municipality of Gradiska

(Bosnia and Herzegovina)10• The Municipality of Berat (Albania)11• The Municipality of Lushnje (Albania)

MED-3R affects populations of more than 1.5 million inhabitants through its actions implemented on 7 cities

The 15 direct partners

The 7 associated partners

The 11 recently integrated partners

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Nice - The Chamber of Commerce and Industry Nice Côte d’Azur

Traditional French restaurants yearly produce 221 000 tons of bio-waste. As for the territory of Métropole Nice Côte d’Azur, this figure rises to 6 500 tons of bio-waste/year. According to the “National Pact against food wastage” launched by the French government in June 2013, the wastage rate should be halved by 2020. It is in this context that MED-3R has implemented a pilot project on catering waste in Nice.

The doggy bags in Nice

The Chamber of Commerce and Industry Nice Côte d’Azur conducted a survey of 300 pre-diagnosis among the restaurants in the city of Nice, between October 2013 and January 2014.

73 institutions consequently acceded to the initiative against food wastage and received “waste prevention kits” consisting of a total of 2,500 doggy bags. These bags were offered to customers during a three week period between January and February 2014 and followed by a questionnaire of the restaurateurs, in order to have their opinion on the use of this new material.

This initiative concluded that up to 95% of consumers are responsive to fight food wastage. French customers are becoming more and more adapted to the concept of the doggy bag, already existing in many Anglo-Saxon and Asian countries. Changes in people’s attitudes and behavior need to be made for this gesture to become part of our everyday. The “doggy bags” distributed under the MED-3R, encouraged restaurateurs as well as consumers, to become more familiar with the principle of leftovers recovery. Following to this first experience, 47% of surveyed restaurateurs would like to offer this service on a more regular basis. In general, 91.2% of restaurateurs are confident of the positive image reflected by their institutions regarding this supplementary service. Finally, a booklet guide and an E-diagnosis tool were provided to the restaurants in Nice. These equipments allow the restaurants to better manage their waste and to the territory to improve its efforts against food wastage.

Up to 95% of surveyed consumers in Nice are responsive to fight against food wastage

300 pre-diagnosis were led and 2 500 doggy bags distributed

Catering waste

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Nice - The Chamber of Commerce and Industry Nice Côte d’Azur and Métropole Nice Côte d’Azur

Promotion of glass bottles recyclingA new initiative aiming to promote glass bottles recycling was conducted by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Nice Cote d’Azur. Non-returnable glass is thus taken back by the distributor, who then ensures its transfer

to the collection points managed by Métropole Nice Côte d’Azur, according to a sustainable development initiative.

Test of innovative material

The Chamber of Commerce and Industry has tested innovative material among restaurateurs in Nice.

• Thus, a thermal waste dryer, turning leftovers to dry and fertilizing organic material has been tested at a hotel of Cap d’Ail.

• A bacterial waste digester, degrading food waste through a mil and around thirty varieties of bacteria, has also been tested at the central kitchen of the University Hospital in Nice. This 50 kg capacity electrical stomach produces from 2 to 5 kg of compost per day.

• Finally, a crusher of glass bottles has been tested in a beach at the Promenade des Anglais. This device lowers the volume of glass generated by the institution by 80%, which lessens the passing of the refuse vehicles and decreases the carbon footprint by 50% on its collection.

Provision of equipments

Métropole Nice Côte d’Azur provides wholesalers of Saint-Jeannet’s commercial area, with a crasher of Styrofoam. This equipment lowers the volume of Styrofoam containers by 70% and optimizes the rounds of the garbage collection trucks and their carbon footprint.

A thermal waste dryer, a bacterial waste digester and a crusher of glass bottles have been tested on the Riviera territory

Catering waste

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Genoa - The Municipality and the University of Genoa

Compost of catering waste and eco-labeling of restaurantsA field survey on catering waste in some touristic areas of the city was set up by the municipality of Genoa, in collaboration with the University of Genoa, the Chamber of Commerce of Genoa and the public enterprise for urban cleaning AMIU (Azienda Multiservizi e d’Igiene Urbana). 600 pre-diagnosis among the restaurateurs were conducted jointly to a first awareness campaign. Thus, 60 acceding restaurants received eco-labels of encouragement provided by the Municipality, and were equipped with special containers supplied by the AMIU, for the collection of organic waste and its treatment by composting. Each acceding restaurant achieved a self-diagnosis and was supplied by 312 biodegradable and compostable bags for transporting food waste to the provided containers.

This initiative allowed to value an average of 8 kg of organic waste per day and per restaurant.

The waste management plan of the city of Genoa sets up a 30% reduction of household waste by 2020

600 pre-diagnosis among restaurateurs conducted 60 eco-labels supplied

Catering waste

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Sfax - The Municipality of Sfax and the IPEIS

Rehabilitation of a composting site

In Tunisia, 68% of household waste corresponds to organic waste. Considering the significant local deficits of fertilizers, recovering this type of waste is of ecological, social and economic interests.

Thus, a development study of a composting site was performed by the Municipality of Sfax and a research laboratory was arranged by the Preparatory School for Engineer Studies of Sfax (IPEIS). The Municipality also acquired a strand for organic waste sorting that is fully managed by the IPEIS. This equipment allows the Municipality to value up to 50% of household waste treated a the pilot site, by extracting the organic portion. Also, the IPEIS achieved a comprehensive waste management plan of the city and undertook agronomic tests in order to monitor the quality of the produced compost. Finally, the Preparatory School acquired two vehicles to ensure the shuttle between the composting site and the laboratory.

Organic waste and composting

The strand for organic waste sorting acquired in Sfax

The pilot site in Sfax allows to value 50% of treated household waste

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Byblos - The Municipality of Byblos

Implementation of packages selective collection

1,6 million tons of waste are produced annually in Lebanon. This number increases by 7 or 8% each year, knowing that no integrated waste management is yet established throughout the country. This significant production ends up whether in the numerous illegal dumpsites, or in the few controlled landfills. Considering that waste collection, treatment and landfill, fall under the competences of municipalities that suffer from a great lack of means, the two pilot projects on selective sorting were implemented in Byblos and in Blat.

Following to the development of the feasibility study and the waste management plan of the city, Byblos set up the first waste collection regulation achieved at a national level. Three sorting ambassadors were also recruited and communication campaigns were conducted. These campaigns were translated by a door-to-door distribution of brochures and during the major events in the city, by the installation of stands during some school events, the organization of environmental workshops and a media coverage. Also, the city acquired and installed recycling bins across its pilot sites. MED-3R also allowed the city to purchase a waste collection truck and to establish an environmental Police. This latter would be a pioneering initiative in Lebanon.

The first waste collection regulation achieved at a national level was set up by the city of Byblos

Selective sorting

The pilot site in Sfax allows to value 50% of treated household waste

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A door to door awareness campaign was carried out among schools and universities in the city

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Blat - The Municipality of Blat

Implementation of packages selective collection

The selective collection of packages concerned only one experimental area in the city, but it will be lately expanded to other neighborhoods. A waste management plan for the city and a feasibility study were developed, and the Municipality set up its first waste collection regulation.

A door-to-door awareness campaign was conducted by three teams of young volunteers and it concerned the city’s schools and universities as well. This work was accompanied by the distribution of explanatory brochures and the publishing of articles in the local magazine. A site was also set up for the storage of recyclable waste prior to their transfer to processing centers. This site is also used by the Municipality of Byblos.

Both Lebanese partners benefitted from four training courses organized by the International Office for Water (OIEau, France) between 2014 and 2015, as part of its commitment to the establishment of know-how transfer sessions to the Mediterranean Partner Countries. The attendance mainly concerned repre-sentatives of the Municipa-lities of Byblos and Blat, followed by representatives of the Ministry of Environment in Lebanon, companies and NGOs in charge of waste collection in both municipalities. Their aim was to support local actors in achieving their management plans, the implementation of a waste collection regulation and the development of an appropriate communication system.

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Nice - Métropole Nice Côte d’Azur

Creation of a selective sorting space

Around 10 millions of tourists and 500 000 congressists visit each year the French Riviera territory, that has become the second most touristic destination, the second business destination, the first game destination and with the second highly active airport, at a national level. However, these figures generate huge quantities of waste to be collected: as an example, up to 1 000 tons of waste per day may be collected on the Métropole Nice Côte d’Azur during a highly touristic season.

The historical center of the city of Nice, called the “Old Nice”, holds in addition to its 6,000 inhabitants, numerous shops and restaurants, as well as cultural and administrative centers that are widely frequented by the visitors of the region. However, a number of constraints fall within its waste management, such as low storage capacities in residential and public spaces, the narrow width of the streets, architectural requirements and the preservation of the city’s image.

Considering the possibility of improving the sorting performances in the area of around 2.5 kg/inhab./year, over an average of 15 kg/inhab./year within the French Riviera territory, Métropole Nice Côte d’Azur created 11 collection spaces for household waste since 2011, and set up as part of MED-3R, a new sorting space located at 3 rue Gilly. With the support of an awareness campaign and the distribution of 3,000 guidebooks and sorting bags, a doubling of the recycling collection rate is thus expected in the area by late 2016.

A doubling in the recycling rate is expected in the area for late 2016

Selective sorting

The new sorting space in Nice

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Aqaba - Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority

Development of a plan to reduce plastic bags consumption

About 300 million tons of plastic are yearly produced worldwide, of which only 5% are recycled. Although ecological consequences of waste are well-known, the plastic annual global production continues to grow. Regulatory measures regarding plastics and more particularly plastics bags are being introduced in different countries, particularly in Jordan, where tourism is an important economic pillar disadvantaged by a strong visual pollution.

More than 30 million bags are littered each year across the country, while 3 billion plastic bags are being used annually. These numbers correspond to an average consumption of 1.4 plastic bag/person/day according to estimates by the Jordanian Ministry of Environment.

Therefore, Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority (ASEZA), began changing the existing pattern of plastic bags’ consumption and disposal. It developed a preventive waste and plastic bags management plan for Aqaba entitled APreWaM (Aqaba Preventive Solid Waste Management). Its implementation comprises awareness actions among the local community, replacement of disposable plastic bags with reusable bags at mass-merchandisers and logistical support to rag-pickers and to nongovernmental organizations such as the Green Key (or the environmental police).

Additionally, ASEZA is investigating the legal preparedness to adopt a “Plastic bag free municipality“ and the potential feasibility to recycle this type of waste.

Plastic waste

ASEZA is investigating the legal preparedness to adopt a “Plastic bag free Municipality” and the feasibility to recycle this type of waste

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Contests, workshops and exhibitions on plastic waste

An initiative called “Reuse” or [Re-use], was set up by the municipality and the university of Genoa, in order to fight against plastic waste. It is an instructive process aiming to provide a second life to plastic waste, through cultural and artistic approaches. Extending over a full year between 2014 and 2015, Reuse has been divided into four sections: “Palazzo Verde”, “Basamenti’’, “Shot” and “Plastic Street”, comprising multiple events such as workshops, art competitions, exhibitions and games.

Palazzo Verde comprises laboratories, seminars as well as an exhibition of sculptures and prototypes created by young artists, following to a contest launched on a Euro-Mediterranean scale.

Basamenti highlights the characteristics of public spaces foreseen for the art installations, within a plastic and contemporary art context.

Plastic waste

“Reuse’’ is an instructive initiative aiming to provide a second life to plastic waste, through cultural and artistic approaches

“From energy to energy” project

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Contests, workshops and exhibitions on plastic waste

Shot provides a dialogue between architecture and contemporary language, through the recycle and use of plastic material. Young artists coming from the MED-3R countries are the key players of exhibitions, workshops, meetings, installations and performances.

Plastic street presents solutions that simplify or develop public spaces and that may fit into the everyday life. These solutions translate into small creative actions, artistic interventions, urban design elements and utilitarian objects, exposed in an open-air museum.


An exhibition on waste recycling was jointly conducted at The Maison de l’Environnement in Nice. Thus, exchanges of artistic works, mutual receptions of exhibitors and participants, as well as academic workshops by videoconferences, were carried out between Métropole Nice Côte d’Azur and the Municipality of Genoa.

Plastic waste

Work created by Tvrtko Buric – Maison de l’environnement

Academic workshop during the exhibition on recycling – Maison de l’Environnement

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Installation of waste of electrical and electronic equipment storage boxes

Waste of electrical and electronic equipment (or WEEE) often contain products harmful to the environment and public health, as greenhouse gases (refrigerants), heavy metals (lead, mercury, aluminum) and other toxic compounds (arsenic, PCBs, asbestos).

In France, around 1.3 million tons of WEEE are generated each year, of which only 0.34 million ton are recycled, and the rest are either illegally exported to Asia and Africa, or incinerated or buried in French landfills.

Although the sector of collection and management of household WEEE is administrated since 2006 by approved eco-organizations, some territorial authorities developed on a voluntary basis, a selective collection of household WEEE within their civic amenity sites

Four WEEE storage boxes financed by the MED-3R project, are installed on the territory of Métropole Nice Côte d’Azur, at the civic amenities of the west of Nice, of Isola, of Valdeblore and of Cagnes-sur-Mer. These boxes are used to collect the non-cooling major appliances, being an important source of recyclable materials that can be easily disassembled. Jointly, awareness actions on the harmfulness of such waste, its sorting and its collection, are conducted among the citizens of Métropole Nice Côte d’Azur.

Waste of electrical and electronic equipment

Four WEEE storage boxes are made available to the local population in order to collect the non-cooling major appliances

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Development of a communication campaign

When disposed with household waste, home generated medical waste, produced by self-managing patients, represents a health threat of injuring or contaminating employees of waste collection and sorting.

In France, there are 1.4 million of self-managing patients producing annually 360 tons of home generated medical waste. Within the Métropole Nice Côte d’Azur territory, the number of such patients stands at 11,800, representing around 3 tons per year of such hazardous waste. Those high numbers justify the frequent occurrence of accidental cases among refuse collection staff each year, due to stings or cuts caused by potentially infected medical waste.

Collection and treatment of home generated medical waste are ensured at a national level by the eco-organization Dastri. On the French Riviera territory, 112 pharmacies acceded to the collection network of this hazardous waste, following to awareness actions conducted by Métropole Nice Côte d’Azur and in collaboration with Dastri.

Thus, self-managing patients may be supplied with medical sharps boxes of 1 or 2 liters, for a safely storage of their medical sharp waste. Full boxes are brought back by patients to one of the geo-locatable points on Dastri’s website. This waste and its containers, are then incinerated or sanitized and destroyed.

Métropole Nice Côte d’Azur is also involved in a campaign, to inform and to raise users awareness about the risks of this hazardous waste, its sorting and its collection points.

Home generated medical waste

112 pharmacies spread over the Riviera territory acceded to the collection network of home generated medical waste

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Environmentally friendly collection of batteries and accumulators

Batteries and accumulators represent a very dangerous source of pollution to the environment and public health, as they release harmful and highly polluting heavy metals such as lead, mercury, cadmium and aluminum, if corroded or incinerated. These heavy metals can cause serious diseases depending on the rate of contamination. In France, their placing on the market and their collection are regulated. However, only 35% of batteries and accumulators are recycled on the 33,353 tons placed each year on the French market, while the remaining 65% end up in nature.

The MED-3R project allowed Métropole Nice Côte d’Azur to acquire an electric vehicle to ensure an environmentally friendly collection of batteries and accumulators, over 274 points spread over the Riviera territory. These points correspond to public institutions, enterprises and small producers. Métropole Nice Côte d’Azur is also involved in an informative and awareness campaign on the risks and the sorting of these harmful waste.

Installation of storage boxes for household hazardous waste

Household hazardous waste (HHW) may contain chemicals posing environmental or health risks, such as home cleaning products, maintenance and gardening products. Thus, Métropole Nice Côte d’Azur installed 4 HHW storage boxes at the civic amenities of Carros, of Isola, of Valdeblore and of Saint-Martin-de-Vésubie for subsequent processing under suitable channels.

Hazardous waste

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Porquerolles - The Municipality of Hyeres-les-Palmiers

Development of sustainable solutions for the treatment of islands waste

The island of Porquerolles is the pilot site of the city of Hyeres-les-Palmiers. This island is characterized by a highly touristic activity in the summer and reaches its maximum of waste production between June and mid-September. Thus, 60% of its 1,100 tons of household and similar waste generated each year stem from professional activities related to tourism and catering. As waste disposal is performed by maritime transportation to the mainland, it has a remarkably high cost, both environmentally and financially.

Thus, a feasibility study enabled the adoption of some sustainable solutions for the island’s waste. 28 pre-diagnosis were therefore conducted among the restaurateurs of the island, on their provisions as to insularity, and on the type and rates of their generated waste.

A test of innovative material, notably a thermal waste dryer, was undertaken in September 2013. This experiment provided a real interest in terms of waste reduction, since it prevented 70% of their initial volume.

Experimentations on collective composting were also held over a four weeks period between July and August 2014. These experimentations involved thirteen different restaurants, in order to establish a composting protocol in accordance with the streams of produced bio-waste. The quality of the finished compost was compliant with the French quality standard NF U 44 051 and held a significant valuation potential.

Finally, the Municipality of Hyeres-les-Palmiers installed solar waste compactors for non-recyclable waste on the island.

Islands waste

Experimentations at Porquerolles produced a compliant compost with the French quality standard

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A collaborative work within the MED-3R partnership enabled the development of a common methodology for structuring waste management plans. Taking into account local, technical and regulatory specificities of the 7 involved territories, this methodology enabled the achievement of the management plans of Métropole Nice Côte d’Azur, Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority, the municipalities of Genoa, Byblos, Blat and Sfax and Hyeres-les-Palmiers. Thus, this methodology offers by its adaptability and replicability, a possibility to be implemented on other Mediterranean cities members of the network.

Also, a collaborative workspace of consulting, professional cross-border communication and sharing of outputs related to the pilot projects, is offered to MED-3R members. This workspace is based on the PACA Ecobiz platform of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

The project also provided capacity building and skills transfer sessions for more than 200 participants coming from the two shores of the Mediterranean.

Finally, MED-3R allowed the dissemination of best practice and awareness for stakeholders in waste management, through technical visits carried out on the territories of its partners, while providing a significant demonstration mean.

Other approaches

The 15 direct partners

The 7 associated partners

DisclaimerThis publication has been produced with the financial assistance of the European Union under the ENPI CBC Mediterranean Sea Basin Programme. The contents of this site are the sole responsibility of the Metropolis of Nice Cote d’Azur and can under no circumstances be regarded as reflecting the position of the European Union or of the Programme’s management structures.

Project budget and amount of EU funding in EuroThe project MED-3R is implemented under the ENPI CBC Mediterranean Sea Basin Programme (www.enpicbcmed.eu). Its total budget is 4 787 062,00 € and it is financed for an amount of 4 308 355,80 €, by the European Union through the European Neighborhood and Partnership Instrument. The ENPI CBC Med Programme aims at

reinforcing cooperation between the European Union and partner countries regions placed along the shores of the Mediterranean Sea.

Statement about the ProgrammeThe 2007-2013 ENPI CBC Mediterranean Sea Basin Programme is a multilateral Cross-Border Cooperation initiative funded by the European Neighborhood and Partnership Instrument (ENPI). The Programme objective is to promote the sustainable and harmonious cooperation process at the Mediterranean Basin level by dealing with the common challenges and enhancing its endogenous potential. It finances cooperation projects as a contribution to the economic, social, environmental and cultural development of the Mediterranean region. The following 14 countries participate in the Programme: Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Israel,

Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Malta, Palestinian Authority, Portugal, Spain, Syria, Tunisia. The Joint Managing Authority (JMA) is the Autonomous Region of Sardinia (Italy). Official Programme languages are Arabic, English and French.

General statement on the European UnionThe European Union is made up of 28 Member States who have decided to gradually link together their know-how, resources and destinies. Together, during a period of enlargement of 50 years, they have built a zone of stability, democracy and sustainable development whilst maintaining cultural diversity, tolerance and individual freedoms. The European Union is committed to sharing its achievements and its values with countries and peoples beyond its borders.

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