Since January 1st, ECN has started to work on the EU funded Life BioBest project, whose goal is to mainstream the separate collection of organic waste and the production of high-quality compost and digestate to close the biological cycle between biowaste generation and soil health.
Funded through the LIFE programme, EU’s funding instrument for the environment and climate action, the project responds to specific needs identified by the European Commission to address ad hoc legislative and policy priorities (PLP).
In this sense, the project will support the execution of obligations laid down in the Waste Framework Directive (WFD), which requires Member States to implement mandatory separate collection of biowaste from the start of 2024. Building on the obligation to collect organic waste separately, this project will also help sharing guidelines and best practices for the use of high-quality compost and digestate, as announced in the Soil Strategy 2030.
The objective is to develop policy recommendations to support EU policy makers in the decision process and to build from the extensive data set provided by all project partners to identify best practices and share knowledge among European countries. The expected result is the improvement of the quality of the input entering the recycling process and the consequent increase in high-quality soil improvers and fertilisers.
The partners involved in the project together with ECN are: Fundacio ENT, Consorzio Italiano Compostatori (CIC), Zero Waste Europe (ZWE) and Association of Cities and Regions for sustainable Resource management (ACR+).
You can also find the project in the new public dashboard launched by CINEA, the European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency, covering all of its projects and programmes.
