Here are the 15 winners of the 2024 BIOREPACK competition
Entries submitted by local authorities and separate waste collection managers. Objective: help citizens to recognise the advantages and best practices for the organic recycling of compostable bioplastics and food waste. Financed through a competition devised by Biorepack (Italy’s consortium for the organic recycling of biodegradable and compostable plastic packaging), the proposals will make it possible to reach over 1.5 million citizens and over 50,000 students. Calabria and Piedmont are the regions with the highest number of funded projects
25 March 2024 – Competition entries included using AI to devise multilingual videos to help people recognise compostable packaging, art competitions to produce work using materials to be sent for organic recycling, and even ‘MythBusters’ style initiatives to disprove fake news and urban legends that reduce the effectiveness of separate waste collection. There were also facilitators for commercial users, interactive games with waste robots, educational fairs for families and theatre performances for primary school children. So many different ideas but all with the same objective: to help inform citizens about the benefits of compostable bioplastics and the importance of recycling them correctly together with organic waste.
In all there were 34 entries to the 2024 edition of the local communication competition, which was once again held by Biorepack, the Italian national consortium for the organic recycling of biodegradable and compostable packaging, together with ANCI, the National Association of Italian Municipalities. The 15 winning projects will each receive a share of the €200,000 in funding made available for the competition. Submitted by local authorities and operators of waste collection services, 5 of the winning initiatives came from the North, 3 from the Centre and 7 from the South and Islands. The projects must be implemented and completed by 30 November 2024.
“This year, as in 2023, our local communication competition again allowed us to showcase the professionalism and proposal skills of the various local authorities,” said Marco Versari, president of the Biorepack consortium. “The high number of entries shows how individual areas recognise the importance of organising communications campaigns and raising awareness about the correct management of organic waste.”
The projects that will receive funding, selected by an evaluation committee made up of two representatives from Biorepack and one from ANCI, are expected to reach over 1.5 million citizens and over 50,000 students, through specially devised initiatives. The region with the largest number of selected projects is Calabria, thanks to entries from Calabra Maceri e Servizi SpA, Lamezia Multiservizi SpA and the municipality of Jonadi. This is followed by Piedmont, where projects submitted by Amiat Spa and Consorzio Chierese per i Servizi will receive funding.
“Organic waste accounts for an extremely large share of all waste produced – around 40% of the total,” recalled Versari. “Compostable bioplastics have proven to be of great help in increasing the quality and quantity of waste collection by making it easier for citizens to follow best practices. But there is still much to be done to help people identify this waste correctly. The various campaigns and initiatives that will be implemented thanks to the Biorepack competition will be a fundamental element in ensuring we continue to make progress, eliminating uncertainties, errors and disinformation”.
The full list of projects presented is available HERE
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BIOREPACK, the National Consortium for the Organic Recycling of Biodegradable and Compostable Plastic Packaging, is a non-profit consortium under private law, with articles of association approved by a decree from the Ministry for Ecological Transition in agreement with the Ministry for Economic Development, with the aim of ensuring development of the differentiated collection and organic recycling of bioplastics together with the organic fraction of waste (article 182 c of the Consolidated Environment Law - Legislative Decree no. 152/2006). It is made up of more than 200 companies active in the production of raw materials, processing and industrial use of UNI EN 13432-certified compostable bioplastic packaging, as well as its organic recycling.
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