The conference will be hosted by M. Christophe ROUILLON, Mayor of Coulaines and member of the Committee of the Regions and opened by Kestutis Sadauskas, Director in charge of circular economy and green growth of the European Commission’s Environment DG. The conference is expected to bring together professionals from across Europe to inform them about the outcomes of this very special project that focused on ways to increase separate paper collection in the EU, a key element in Europe’s transition towards a Circular Economy.
IMPACTPapeRec brought together the whole paper value chain for the first time in a joint project with the two-fold goal of promoting separate collection of “Paper for Recycling” and avoiding landfilling and incineration, particularly in countries with a low recycling rate.
The most important outcome of the project and a major part of the conference will be the presentation of the “Good and Best Practices Handbook for the collection of paper and board for recycling”. This detailed guidebook contains information on legislation, standardisation and policy incentives, but most importantly practical tools and concrete steps to take so that municipalities can improve paper and board collection wherever they are in Europe.
The final conference will be followed by two workshops, one specifically targeted to municipalities, companies and citizens from countries that did not participate in the project, the other for entrepreneurs to boost the future opening of new businesses and foster the development and implementation of innovative solutions for paper collection.
You can find further information as well as registration information for the event at www.impactpaperec.eu.
The IMPACTPapeRec project is financed by the European Union Horizon 2020 Programme and supports the separate collection of paper commitment of the European Innovation Platform (EIP) on Raw Materials.
ITENE coordinates the project consortium formed by 19 partners from eight European countries: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Poland, Romania and Spain.
IMPACTPapeRec aims to put Europe at the forefront of paper for recycling (PfR) collection by providing an innovative and common knowledge platform. The innovative approach of the defined participatory strategy is based on the real engagement of the whole paper value chain including research, industry, policies, standards, municipalities and citizens.
