The project BALTIPLAST aims at prevention and reduction of plastic waste in the Baltic Sea Region, focusing on single use plastic reduction, improvements in plastic packaging and innovative collection and treatment systems at the municipality level.
Description
The project BALTIPLAST aims at the prevention and reduction of plastic waste in the Baltic Sea Region, focusing on single-use plastic reduction, improvements in plastic packaging and innovative collection and treatment systems at the municipality level. A consortium of partners from Germany, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, will test concrete solutions at three levels of operation: Strategic and management; technological/technical; communication/behaviour change. The project involves some key actors in the plastic waste value chain, primarily municipalities in the participating countries, as well as SMEs and large enterprises operating in the field of waste management. NGOs and interest groups will be involved, in the dissemination of results. It contributes to EU Strategy for the BSR, specifically to the Policy Area of Bio-economy, dwelling on responsible use of resources, changing mindsets and consumer behaviour, through cross-sectorial approaches, by up-scaling waste to integrate it into a circular economy, by testing public procurement models and integrating circular economy policies in the activities of the target groups. The project design is guided by co-creative innovation, through new schemes of collaboration in country clusters, as reflected in the Group of Activities, further transferring them to a transnational level. Ultimately, BALTIPLAST may provide a long-term contribution to ongoing efforts to reduce the plastic that enters the Baltic Sea Region.
Partnership
- Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (DE)
- City of Helsinki (FI)
- City of Tallinn (EE)
- Kaunas city municipality (LT)
- Västerås municipality (SE)
- Valmiera Municipality Government (LV)
- Stockholm Environment Institute, Tallinn Centre (EE)
- Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech) (EE)
- Kaunas University of Technology (LT)
- Daugavpils City Municipality (LV)
- Union of the Baltic Cities Sustainable Cities Commission (FI)
- Baltic Environmental Forum Germany (DE)
- Baltic Environmental Forum Latvia (LV)
- Keep Sweden Tidy (SE)
- Swedish Consumers Association (SE)
- Environmental Center for Administration and Technology (ECAT) (LT)
- Coalition Clean Baltic (SE)
- Plastic-Free City, KuBus e.V. (DE)
Funding
The BALTIPLAST project is funded by the Interreg Baltic Sea Region Programme 2021-2027.
Project information
The project's main objective is to identify, test and deploy concrete solutions to handle and reduce the flow of plastic waste to the Baltic Sea, under the lenses of a circular economy. It will do so with the consortium of key actors in the plastic waste value chain, namely local authorities, universities and research institutions, associations and NGOs, as well as SMEs and large enterprises in the participating countries, that operate in the waste management field.