Baltic Approaches to Handling Plastic Pollution under a Circular Economy Context
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BALTIPLAST

PROGRAMME 2021-2027
priority
3 Climate-neutral societies
objective
3.1 Circular economy
Project type
Core Project
Implementation
January 2023 - December 2025

BALTIPLAST

The project BALTIPLAST brings technological solutions to help public authorities reduce plastic waste and trigger investments in sustainable sorting and recycling.
Project summary

 

“Baltic Approaches to Handling Plastic Pollution under a Circular Economy Context- BALTIPLAST” Project

The project “Baltic Approaches to Handling Plastic Pollution under a Circular Economy Context” (BALTIPLAST) aims at the prevention and reduction of plastic waste in the Baltic Sea Region, focusing on single use plastic reduction, improvements in plastic packaging and innovative collection and treatment systems at the municipality level. A consortium of partners from Germany, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania will test concrete solutions at three levels of operation: Strategic and management; technological/technical; communication & behavior change. The project involves some key actors in the plastic waste value chain, primarily municipalities in the participating countries, as well as SMEs and large enterprises operating in the field of waste management. NGOs and interest groups will also be involved, in the dissemination of results. BALTIPLAST contributes to EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region, specifically to the Policy Area of Bio-economy, dwelling on responsible use of resources, changing mindsets and consumer behavior, through cross-sectorial approaches, by up-scaling waste to integrate it into a circular economy, by testing public procurement models and by integrating circular economy policies in the activities of the target groups. The project design is guided by co-creative innovation, through new schemes of collaboration in country clusters, as reflected in the project Group of Activities, further transferring them to a transnational level. Ultimately, BALTIPLAST may provide a long-term contribution to on-going efforts to reduce the plastic that enters the Baltic Sea Region.

Objectives and the partnership

The project BALTIPLAST aims to foster the prevention and reduction of plastic in the Baltic Sea Region, through a diverse and consolidated consortium with partners in Germany, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, along with the Union of Baltic Cities, based in Finland. The project´s main objective is to identify, test and deploy concrete solutions to handle and reduce the flow of plastic waste to the Baltic Sea, under the lenses of a circular economy. It will do so by establishing a consortium with the main some of the key actors in the plastic waste value chain, namely local authorities, universities and research institutions, associations, and NGOs, as well as SMEs and large enterprises in the participating countries, that operate in the waste management field.

The collaboration is based on three levels: solution and stakeholder logic with local authorities; technical and business level; and the consumer level. Various local authorities are partners in this consortium, which empowers them to address the solutions to their current problems. In order to have a comprehensive transfer of the solutions, various networks and associations are included in the consortium, since plastic waste has a direct connection with all of them. The universities will design the solutions in collaboration with local governments in the project countries, with inputs from NGOs and Associations. The solutions will be tested by the cities and in cooperation with NGOs and businesses. For maximizing the transnational transfer and upscaling of the solutions, the Union of Baltic Cities will use its extensive network of municipalities, hence maximizing the benefits of the project to the Baltic Sea Region.

Target Groups

1. Local public authorities
2. Interest groups
3. SMEs
4. Large enterprises
5. NGOs
6. Education organizations

 

Contact
Hamburg University of Applied Sciences
Research and Transfer Centre “Sustainable Development and Climate Change Management”

Professor Walter Leal
Dr. Jelena Barbir
Andrea Dobri
E-mail: baltiplast@hamburg.de

 

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Budgets

BALTIPLAST
in numbers.
  • 4.27
    Million
    Total
  • 3.42
    Million
    Erdf
  • 0.00
    Million
    Norway

Success indicators

BALTIPLAST
in numbers.
136 Organisations reached with 2 Solutions in offer 2 Solutionsin use 6 Pilotactivities 24 Organisationsin the project
  • 53.494125310.2004417
  • 60.188631724.9760387
  • 59.433698424.743956783013545
  • 54.897805423.9042337
  • 59.61666716.583333
  • 57.539989825.4249705
  • 59.451931924.7176649
  • 59.437215524.7453688
  • 54.90564815000000523.952353492335632
  • 55.8667379526.516886227078324
  • 60.450661322.276476769601523
  • 53.5753276500000069.95682044196797
  • 56.958568224.1119083
  • 59.312268518.0239974
  • 59.30085718.0846114
  • 54.898623623.925300841787475
  • 59.854220717.643433
  • 54.0633980000000112.068867469958562
Lead partnerHamburg University of Applied Sciences
  • Town
    Hamburg
  • Region
  • Country
    Germany
  • Region
    Hamburg
Total partner budget
476,340.00
City of Helsinki
  • Town
    Helsinki
  • Region
  • Country
    Finland
  • Region
    Helsinki-Uusimaa
Total partner budget
388,604.00
City of Tallinn
  • Town
    Tallinn
  • Region
  • Country
    Estonia
  • Region
    Põhja-Eesti
Total partner budget
91,086.20
Kaunas city municipality
  • Town
    Kaunas
  • Region
  • Country
    Lithuania
  • Region
    Kauno apskritis
Total partner budget
192,906.80
Vasteras Municipality
  • Town
    Västerås
  • Region
  • Country
    Sweden
  • Region
    Västmanlands län
Total partner budget
164,514.00
Valmiera Municipality Government
  • Town
    Valmiera
  • Region
  • Country
    Latvia
  • Region
    Vidzeme
Total partner budget
143,496.00
Stockholm Environment Institute, Tallinn Centre
  • Town
    Tallinn
  • Region
  • Country
    Estonia
  • Region
    Põhja-Eesti
Total partner budget
255,391.60
Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech)
  • Town
    Tallinn
  • Region
  • Country
    Estonia
  • Region
    Põhja-Eesti
Total partner budget
179,372.00
Kaunas University of Technology
  • Town
    Kaunas
  • Region
  • Country
    Lithuania
  • Region
    Kauno apskritis
Total partner budget
198,186.00
Daugavpils City Municipality
  • Town
    Daugavpils
  • Region
  • Country
    Latvia
  • Region
    Latgale
Total partner budget
171,640.00
Union of the Baltic Cities Sustainable Cities Commission c/o City of Turku
  • Town
    Turku
  • Region
  • Country
    Finland
  • Region
    Varsinais-Suomi
Total partner budget
283,488.00
Baltic Environmental Forum Germany
  • Town
    Hamburg
  • Region
  • Country
    Germany
  • Region
    Hamburg
Total partner budget
386,699.20
Baltic Environmental Forum Latvia
  • Town
    Riga
  • Region
  • Country
    Latvia
  • Region
    Rīga
Total partner budget
187,140.80
Keep Sweden Tidy
  • Town
    Stockholm
  • Region
  • Country
    Sweden
  • Region
    Stockholms län
Total partner budget
238,168.00
Swedish Consumers Association
  • Town
    Stockholm
  • Region
  • Country
    Sweden
  • Region
    Stockholms län
Total partner budget
254,500.00
Environmental Center for Administration and Technology (ECAT)
  • Town
    Kaunas
  • Region
  • Country
    Lithuania
  • Region
    Kauno apskritis
Total partner budget
226,086.00
Coalition Clean Baltic
  • Town
    Uppsala
  • Region
  • Country
    Sweden
  • Region
    Uppsala län
Total partner budget
240,764.80
Plastic-Free City, KuBus e.V. (registered association)
  • Town
    Rostock
  • Region
  • Country
    Germany
  • Region
    Rostock, Kreisfreie Stadt
Total partner budget
195,212.00

Contacts

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Hackathon "DaibeZero"
BALTIPLAST promotes the generation of innovative ideas for plastic waste recycling based on the ...

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BALTIPLAST joined the EU Green Week 2023
On the 5th of June, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences and Baltic Environmental Forum Germany ...

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A clean or dirty environment starts with us
This initiative was organized by Valmiera Municipality under the umbrella of the International ...

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BALTIPLAST participated in the "Environmental Days 2023"
Daugavpils City Municipality organized an event to boost knowledge about waste sorting. This event ...

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BALTIPLAST kicks-off: Joining Forces for a Cleaner Baltic Sea Region
The first steps to prevent and reduce single-use plastics in the Baltic Sea Region began with a ...

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BALTIPLAST Project- behind the scenes
The BALTIPLAST Consortium, a group of 18 Project Partner Organizations, convened for their first ...

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Empowering Change: The BALTIPLAST Team Unites to Combat Plastic Pollution
The 1st General Assembly Meeting of the BALTIPLAST Project took place in Vasteras, Sweden, from ...

Events

23-24
September
Hackathon "DaibeZero"
Project: BALTIPLAST
Physical Meeting
23. - 24. September 2023
03
October
Workshop "Bio-based biodegradable plastics: impact on waste management frameworks"-Estonia
Project: BALTIPLAST
Physical Meeting
03. October 2023
05
October
Workshop "Bio-based biodegradable plastics: impact on waste management frameworks"-Lithuania
Project: BALTIPLAST
Physical Meeting
05. October 2023
16
November
BALTIPLAST is joining the Green Governance Conference on Green Public Procurement
Project: BALTIPLAST
Physical Meeting
16. November 2023
09:00 - 17:30 (EET)
    No past events