📋 Tender Overview
Start Date: 01/10/2021
End Date: 30/09/2029
Total Budget: 14,785,848 €
EU Contribution: 8,871,508 €
Project Location: Cyprus
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
BACKGROUND
Cyprus has one of the EU’s highest levels of municipal waste production per capita (636 kg per person a year). The country’s waste management relies mostly on landfilling (almost 80%), while just 17% of total waste is recycled (material and composting). Recycling activities take place through extended producer responsibility (EPR) schemes for packaging waste, batteries, and electric and electronic waste. Cyprus lags behind in terms of achieving the targets of the EU Landfill Directive, EU Waste Framework Directive and the objectives of the EU’s circular economy action plan. This is mostly because of structural inefficiencies such as:
Lack of infrastructure and collection systems for recyclable and biodegradable waste;
Lack of coordination between different administrative levels and insufficient law enforcement at the local level;
Lack of incentives, such as economic instruments to prevent waste production and improve recycling; and
Ineffective EPR schemes for packaging in Cyprus
Insufficient monitoring and enforcement of activities.
OBJECTIVES
The overall objective of the LIFE-IP CYzero WASTE integrated project (IP) is to address and implement EU and national legislation on waste management and the circular economy, through catalysation of full implementation of the National Waste Management Plan and the National Waste Prevention Strategy, addressing main gaps identified in the Environmental Implementation Review for Cyprus (2019) and the Early Warning Report for Cyprus (2018).
The project’s specific objectives include:
Implementation of concrete waste management actions that will support, enhance and maximise the application of the waste hierarchy and the separate collection of waste streams;
Development of demonstration actions in targeted fields (food waste and agrowaste prevention, reuse/repair, recycling
KEYWORDS: environmental monitoring, rural environment, waste management, waste disposal, environmental awareness,
integrated management, waste use, local government, waste recycling, waste treatment, waste reduction, waste collection, reuse of materials, rural area, recycling, separated collection,
packaging,environmental management, municipal waste, organic waste, local authority, pollution prevention, separation
economic analysis, separation at source, environmental policy
hazardous waste, landfill, waste, waste recovery and recycling, environmental incentive
