Institutional programmes Clause Samples

Institutional programmes. Institutional programmes do play a significant role in the development of effective and impactful collection and recycling initiatives. In this sense public authorities (mainly local, municipal and regional bodies) are responsible for setting up the infrastructure for segregation, collection, storage, transportation, processing and disposal of plastic waste. The responsibilities that need to be assumed by these bodies and that will need to be taken into consideration during the operational phases of the Plasticircle are: - Ensuring segregation, collection, storage, transportation, processing and disposal of plastic waste. - Ensuring that no damage is caused to the environment during this process - Ensuring channelization of recyclable plastic waste fraction to recyclers - Ensuring processing and disposal of non-recyclable fraction of plastic waste - Creating awareness among all stakeholders about their responsibilities. - Ensuring that open burning of plastic waste does not take place. Some institutional initiatives have been already identified: ▇▇▇▇://▇▇▇.▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇.▇▇ Regions for Recycling (R4R) was a 3-year European project (2012-2014) aiming to enable its partners to improve their recycling performance through consistent comparisons and an exchange of good practices. The R4R project brings together 13 partners wishing to share and discuss their experience about municipal waste recycling. European local and regional territories share the same framework and objectives, yet they have designed different waste management systems leading to different performances, which makes comparisons very useful. CADAQUES MUNICIPALITY ▇▇▇▇://▇▇▇.▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇.▇▇▇/ Between 15 April and 30 June, the Catalan town will be using a Deposit and Return System (DRS) pilot project for beverage containers. Cans and plastic bottles of less than three litres of soda, water, juice and beer will have a five-cent deposit which will be refunded when the package is returned at any of the 10 partner establishments. The pilot project opens a way to prevent the elimination in landfill, incineration or littering of 5.5 million beverage containers, out of the 9 million which are consumed every day in the Spanish region of Catalonia. The aim of the project is demonstrating the feasibility of a recycling option that already works successfully in more than 40 countries and regions worldwide and will coexist with the current system of roadside containers which has shown its clear limitations to ...