Sustainable Waste Management in the Baltic Sea Region: the RECO Baltic 21

Project

Prof. Walter Leal

HAW Hamburg, Germany

Outline

• Waste management: a challenge for sustainable development

• The project RECO Baltic 21 Tech• The goal and the activities• The partnership• Conclusions• Invitation!

Walter – at a glance

•Professor at HAW Hamburg (DE),London Metropolitan University (UK)and visiting at Uppsala University (SE)• Head of the Research and TransferCentre „Applications of Life Sciences“at HAW Hamburg• Coordinator or partner in a numberof international projects• Cooperate with MESI in SummerCourses and seminars, as well aswith some planned projects.

Waste Management: challenge for sustainable development- The hierarchy at a glance

The need for sustainable waste management

• Apart from the fact that many European countries have no space for landfills, sustainable waste management makes eco-financial sense• “Traditional” waste disposal is a costly exercise• Good news: changes in legislation are now largely against conventional means of waste disposal•Technological developments mean that waste can be turned into a resource•There is a pressing need to use and develop further technologies and intelligent ways to manage the waste problems seen today.

The project RECO Baltic 21 Tech

The project RECO Baltic 21 Tech

•It is an Interreg IVB (Baltic Sea) project, running from November 2010 to October 2013•It congregates academic partners, municipalities, waste management enterprises and NGOs interested in sustainable waste management from across the Baltic•It has a budget of Euro 2,3m•Its activities entail research, analysis of case studies and the preparation of concrete waste management plans for the partner cities.

THE GOAL

To improve the local and regional capacity to apply the process of implementing

sustainable WM that catalyse the execution of the EU directives and supports the region

to climb in the waste hierarchy.

THE ACTIVITIES• Pilot projects with an emphasis on:

– Technical elements– Environmental aspects– Investment potentials

• SME improvement• MEDA cooperation• WM Institution

The Toolbox WP 2 –•promotion.-dissemination-networking

WP 3 – •decision making tool•procurement•WMPs•feasability studies

WP 4 – •procurement•business plan•investors

WP 5 – •database

• tech suppliers• expert pool• financing sources

•Study-tours (products)•Training programmes

The expected results

• The target for RECO Baltic 21 Tech is to generate investments of 20 MEURO. The investments will make the BSR region more competitive by catalysing waste management investments and attracting more investors and funds to the region.

• Together with its planned Joint Strategy, including the Investment Model and accompanied by a waste management institution, it will create a good basis for increasing the Competitiveness of the Region but also for boosting the transferability of the results on all levels within the BSR, but also throughout Europe.

The partnership

Conclusions

THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR ATTENTION!

INVITATION!

"Waste management technologies in the Baltic"St. Petersburg, Russia, June 22, 2011 at the Department of Information and Telecommunications. The seminar is chaired by:• Prof. Walter Leal, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences• Prof. Irina Butorina, Saint-Petersburg State Polytechnical University  

The seminar will focus on the organizational, technical and legal issues of waste management in the Baltic

countries.Participation in the seminar is free for invited lecturers and guests. Travel and accommodation are not

coveredby the organisers. Information on the conference and on the terms of participation will be sent to

interesteddelegates. Further details from: marina_butorina@inbox.ru

AND ONE MORE INVITATION!

AND ONE MORE INVITATION!

The Summer Course consists of seven Modules:

• Module I: Overview of the Climate Change Challenges in River Basin Management in the Baltic Sea

• Module II: Putting in a legal frame: towards climate change policies in the Baltic• Module III: Common property and open access regimes in the context of water

management and good governance• Module IV: The European Water Framework Directive - Implications on river

management in the Baltic• Module V: New Scientific and Technological Basis for Assessing Climate Change and

Land-Use Impacts on Groundwater Module VI: Environmental management and legislation

• Module VII: Approaches, methods and case studies on sustainable river basin management in the Baltic Sea