Nowadays, designing the delivery of solid waste management services, goods and policies in a more effective, efficient and sustainable way is in high demand. Also, Improving waste management is a challenge for legislation efforts in many countries in Mediterranean, key objectives are stimulate innovation in recycling, limit the use of land-filling, and create incentives to change stakeholders behavior.
Furthermore, turning waste into a resource is one key to a circular economy.Improved waste management also helps to reduce health and environmental problems, reduce greenhouse gas emissions (directly by cutting emissions from landfills and indirectly by recycling materials which would otherwise be extracted and processed), and avoid negative impacts at local level such as landscape deterioration due to land-filling, local water and air pollution, as well as littering (European Commission,2018).
With this project, we aim to study and publish information on solid waste management and the associated environmental impacts in the targeted regions and to develop an open-innovation program to transform the way actors interacts with waste, which connects stakeholders from related research and industry to support the co-creation of innovative services and products based on waste and environmental related studies;