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THE PROBLEMS
The problems dealt with in the BALKWASTE project: The Balkan Region includes four different EU Member-States (Greece, Slovenia, Romania & Bulgaria). Waste management in Balkan Countries is dominated by the social and geographical characteristic of the area and is characterized with poor waste infrastructure in comparison to central Europe. The Waste management status in the Balkan Region has certain characteristics, which emphasize the need to promote sustainable solid waste management in the area. In particular, the developing economies of the Balkan countries result in an increasing waste generation that contradicts with EU Policy on waste prevention and recycling.Disposal of solid waste to landfills is the prevailing method in the Balkan Region and treatment activities shall be established. Moreover, there is lack of information regarding waste management and poor institutional capacity, in comparison to central Europe. Sustainable Waste management in the Balkan Region will have a cumulative positive effect for the EU as a whole and it is of significant importance.
PROJECT BALKWASTE
WASTE NETWORK FOR SUSTAINABLESOLID WASTE MANAGEMENTPLANNING AND PROMOTION OF INTEGRATED DECISION TOOLS IN THE BALKAN REGION
LIFE 07 ENV/RO/000686
Partners
REPA - AGENŢIA REGIONALĂ PENTRU PROTECŢIA MEDIULUI BACĂUDr. Movila Julian, Ms. Nona Ardeleanu Oituz street, no.23 P.C. 600266, Bacau Tel.: +40-(0)-234-512750, Fax: +40-(0)-234-571056 [email protected] [email protected] http://arpmbc.anpm.ro/ NTUA - National Technical University of AthensSchool of Chemical Engineering Unit of Environmental Science & Technology Pr. Maria Loizidou, Dr. Konstantinos Moustakas 9, Iroon Polytechneiou St., Zographou Campus, 157 73, Athens Tel.: +30 210 7723106, +30 210 7722334, Fax: +30 210 7723285 [email protected] www.uest.gr TUC - Technical University of Crete Electronic and Computer Engineering Dpt. Electric Circuits and Renewable Energy Sources LabGiorgos [email protected] 73100 Chania ,Crete www.elci.tuc.gr EUROCONSULTANTS S.A. Aleka Alevridou 21 Antonis Tritsis St., Thermi [email protected] www.euroconsultants.com.gr SDCS - Club “Sustainable Development of Civil Society” Prof. Lucia Ilieva 28-A, Dospat Str., Sofia-1463 tel/fax: +359(2)851-35-58 [email protected] www.csdcs.org EFCon - SC European Focus Consulting SRL Dr. Vassilis InglezakisOrizontului Str, bl. 6, sc. B, ap. 32, Bacau Tel: +40-(0)-334415609 [email protected] www.efcon-group.ro GORENJE SUROVINA družba za predelavo odpadkov d.o.o.Vita Kraigherja 5, 2000 Maribor [email protected] www.surovina.si
LIFE 07 ENV/RO/000686Project funded by the LIFE+ Programme of the European CommissionProject Duration: 36 months (January 2009 - December 2011)
S & DELIVABLESAll outputs can be found on the project’s website:
www.balkwaste.eu
Waste Balkan Network & Waste
Technologies Database
The Waste Balkan Network containing both the Stakeholders
Directory and the Monitoring Platform has been redesigned.
New stakeholders have been added and the monitoring indicators
have been updated. The Technologies Database now has an improved
dynamic data management.
The number of unique visitors to the respective pages has drastically
increased after the changes.
For more information visit: http://www.wastedb.eu/platform/.T OBJECTIVES
LIFE 07 ENV/RO/000686
Training sessionsTraining sessions were conducted in Romania and Bulgaria for
the demonstration of the tool to competent authorities. The
authorities were contacted by in order to be informed on the
date and place of the training sessions. For more information
please contact REPA Bacau [email protected] for the
Romanian training session & CSDCS [email protected] for the
Bulgarian ones.
Business plan for funding
The construction and operation of waste treatment infrastructure is
often hindered by the lack of funds and the permitting procedures. The
scope of this report was to offer guidance to stakeholders on how to
obtain funds for the realization of a waste management plan and to
present the necessary actions for the construction and operation of
optimized waste solutions.
Report on development of regional
solid waste planning
The DSS tool was implemented in the case study areas in Bulgaria
and Romania in order to help local authorities draft regional waste
management plans. At least 65 Waste Management competent
authorities have been trained to apply the DSS tool.
Decision Support Software on Waste
Management The development of the decision support software (DSS) tool
which comprises a holistic approach in solid waste management
and is able to evaluate different scenarios including all key
elements in designing integrated waste management systems is
the main objective of the BALKWASTE project.
It is a computer integrated tool aiming at supporting the decision maker throughout the various steps of waste management planning. The DSS tool allows a thorough understanding of the complex interplay between the many factors involved in integrated waste management. Most of existing models and accounting tools developed for assessing various waste management practices, focus on cost or environmental analysis, incorporating a large number variables, resulting in high-complexity solutions, inadequate for practical use.The DSS tool comprises of more than one tools, integrated into user-friendly graphical interface in such a way that allows the user to participate in waste management planning:
• an automated process tool, identifying and suggesting the most suitable technologies within an integrated waste management framework • an analytical tool, evaluating available waste management options through Material Flow Analysis, providing a multidisciplinary comparison between different waste management technologies• a decision support system, assisting the appropriate authorities to select the optimal waste management strategy.
The DSS tool has been validated by the NTUA working
team for the case of Crete and Rhodes and by the
Euroconsultants team for the case of Athens. The results of
the validation phase helped the TUC team proceed with
improvement and optimization steps. The tool & the
relevant manual are available for use through the
BALKWASTE website.