Etra and the Consiglio di Bacino Brenta are organising a workshop focusing on the innovative PAYT-KAYT approach on 24 January in Cittadella, with the involvement of the municipality and local stakeholders, as part of the dissemination actions of the Life...

On the 8th and 9th November, a representative team of the project CircWaste from Finland visited the facilities of Etra in Bassano del Grappa (Italy). The visit is part of the networking actions to foster cooperation between the two projects...

Pay As You Throw (PAYT) and Know-as-you-throw (KAYT) models have been an integral part an integral part of local waste management policies for the last several years, with many more local and regional authorities around Europe considering their implementation. Local...

Thanks to the hospitality of ACR+ member Government of Navarra, more than 25 municipalities from across the region came to Pamplona, for another training of the LIFE REthinkWASTE project. Participants experienced a perfect combination of discovering enabling tools developed within the project’s framework,...

On the heels of the appointments in early October in the Umbria region, the coaching and training activity on PAYT and KAYT organised by IFEL as part of the Life REthinkWASTE project moves to Apulia. On 25 and 26 October,...

Waste management: a meeting to coordinate objectives and strategies for the immediate future will be held on Thursday in Jesi, Marche Region. The meeting “The innovation in waste management: objectives, strategies and good practices”, will be held in Jesi (at...

Today, Tuesday 18 October, at the headquarters of the Department of Rural Development and Environment of the Navarra Region in Pamplona (Spain), a training day organised by the project partners ACR+ together with ArsAmbiente and ARC targeted to local authorities...

IFEL‘s training program aims to disseminate on a large scale the results of the Life REthinkWASTE project and offer in-depth training sessions on PAYT (pay-as-you-throw) and KAYT (know-as-you-throw). PAYT and KAYT are tools that are recognized at European level for...

The pilot tests in the study areas of the project have already ended. All the pilots (Bassano del Grappa, Bitetto and Varese in Italy, Sant Just in Catalonia) have the results of the project’s final survey to assess its social...

Tomorrow, September 20th, is scheduled a coaching session about PAYT and KAYT in Maia (Porto Metropolitan Area, Portugal). The meeting will be the occasion also to visit the premises of Maiambiente and to know more about the PAYT scheme introduced in the...

A new short video documentary is currently available on the YouTube channel of the LIFE REthinkWASTE project, reporting the experience of the innovative KAYT (Know-as-you-throw) approach tested in Sant Just Desvern. The test was implemented with the so called #coneixelquellences strategy...

#coneixelquellences, the messaging system via WhatsApp, Telegram or SMS of the LIFE REthinkWASTE project, based on the concept of Know-as-you-throw (KAYT) for the improvement of waste separate collection, has been operating in Sant Just Desvern for almost a year. In...

Today Life REthinkWASTE is participating in the final conference of the Life FOSTER project, at the University of Gastronomic Sciences of Pollenzo (CN), with whom it has signed a networking agreement to join forces in order to synergise the vision...

Positive results of the first LIFE REthinkWASTE pilot test in Spain together with the introduction of smart containers are confirmed. Citizens value positively the implementation of know-as-you-throw (KAYT) bidirectional communication model through mobile phone messaging Sant Just Desvern City Council...

Two short video animations are currently available on the YouTube channel of the Life REthinkWASTE project, reporting on the experience of the innovative KAYT (know-as-you-throw) approach tested in Bassano del Grappa (VI) and Varese, implemented with the “Riciclo e vinco!”...

Sant Just ha implementat la primera prova pilot a l’estat espanyol per a la millora de la gestió de residus a través d’una innovadora metodologia de sensibilització, i donarà a conèixer aquest dissabte els resultats del projecte. El dissabte 18...

The ARC and REthinkWASTE online training about “Fair Tax and Know-As-You-Throw Systems” ended last week as a great success. The course was imparted by ENT. Several experts in the field of municipal waste management participated, from technological issues to legal...

On 26 May, the Life REthinkWASTE project has been presented as an example of good practice in the webinar “Circular Economy: from waste to efficiency” organised by the Ministry of Ecological Transition. The initiative belongs to the activities of the...

Thanks to the Life REthinkWASTE project, the Veneto Regional Environment Agency is continuing the meetings promoted by Action B.5, which aims to expand the innovative KAYT and PAYT approaches to improve the rate of separate waste collection and increase the...

The ARC has started a online training on “Fair Tax and Know-as-you-Throw Systems” open to all the municipalities in Catalonia. It will consist on four sessions of three hours each. The first three will be theoretical, covering everything municipalites need...

Do you want to assess the potential of your community to adopt PAYT (Pay-As-You-Throw) and KAYT (Know-As-You-Throw), the innovative communication approach involving users through the use of social platforms? The webinar organised by the REthinkWASTE project on 05th May from...

New enthusiasm for the project actions after the partner meetings held in Cittadella (PD), on 27th and 28th April! The partners of the Life REthinkWASTE project met in the charming setting of Cittadella, a municipality in the province of Padua...

The Agencia de Residus de Catalunya, in the framework of the LIFE-REthinkWASTE project, presents a course on PAYT and KAYT approaches on urban waste collection, addressed to local authorities in Catalonia. At the end of the academic year, 20 local...

Do you want to assess the potential of your territory for adopting Pay-As-You-Throw (PAYT) and Know-As-You-Throw (KAYT) models? A webinar organised by the REthinkWASTE project on 05 May from 10:00 to 12:00 CET will give some tips on how to...

A new video is available online with the opinion of a sample of Bassano del Grappa citizens who participated in the KAYT pilot, through the “Riciclo e vinco!” contest. KAYT stands for know-as-you-throw, which is an innovative approach that through...

On March 22, Montse Bassa (waste manager at Sant Just Desvern City Council) and Montse Aulinas (Barcelona Regional technician) took part in the first Living Lab of BIOCIRCULARCITIES project. Sant Just highlighted the importance of separate collection of biowaste with...

Etra’s pilot of the Know-as-you-throw (KAYT) approach in Bassano del Grappa, D collection area, ended in December 2021. Now the follow-up phase is ongoing, which will last until June 2022 to monitor the results of the pilot. On 15, 16,...

On 1st December 2021 in Sant Just Desvern, the partners of the Life REthinkWASTE project shared the preliminary results of the KAYT pilots (KAYT from Know-as-you-throw, that’s a communication strategy with the final user through social network). During a workshop,...

Saturday 29 January was held at the Remondini Theatre in Bassano del Grappa (VI) the Environmental Day of Etra, the final event of the pilot implemeted within the project. During the event, the Life REthinkWASTE project was presented to the...

The ARC has produced a new video for disseminating the project LIFE-REthinkWASTE. It’s a short video (2 minutes long) in which you can see: An introduction of the pilot areas of the project, placing them on the map A brief...

On January 29th from 10.00 a.m., at the Remondini Theatre of Bassano del Grappa (VI), the Environmental Day of the Life REthinkWASTE project will be organised. A one-day event dedicated to the dissemination of the results of the pilot test...

In Bassano del Grappa, the KAYT pilot is approaching its end after one year. In effect, the users registered to the “Riciclo e vinco!” competition have received the last messages asking them to fill in the evaluation survey that will...

LIFE RETHINKWASTE Focus Group Workshop Last Wednesday, December 1, the mid-term intra-comparison focus group workshop of LIFE RethinkWaste took place at Can Ginestar in Sant Just Desvern. Sant Just City Council is a partner in the European project and was...

The KAYT pilot in Bassano is approaching its end. It is then a good time to evaluate the impact that the actions carried out have had on the citizens who participated, especially in terms of changing habits and perception of...

Last Sunday, October 24, the Life Rethinkwaste project was present at “Sant Just Autumn Festivities”, with an information point about the project and the waste separate collection campaign A Sant Just, canviem el xip! (In Sant Just, Let’s Change the...

The Life REThinkWASTE project will be present at Ecomondo, the reference event in Europe for the ecological transition and the new models of circular and regenerative economy that will be held in Rimini from 26th to 29th October. In Pavillion...

Autumn of data collection and analysis for ETRA, lead partner of the Life REThinkWASTE! The big data analysis activity has just started in cooperation with the supplier Datariver. The aim is to optimize the organization of collection areas for undifferentiated...

The results of the first six months of the KAYT (Know As You Throw) testing in the Life REThinkWASTE pilot areas of Varese and Bassano del Grappa are now available. REThinkWASTE’s KAYT approach involves interaction with the user via whatsapp/telegram...

Three new local entities from Catalonia have joined the project as pilots areas in order to enlarge and diversify the pool of experiences in KAYT systems while they improve their separate waste collection rate. They are: Santa Eulàlia de Ronçana:...

In Bassano del Grappa and other municipalities managed by ETRA S.p.A., analysis of the big data collected through the PAYT (Pay As You Throw) approach will soon begin. The implementation of dynamic pricing in the territory of ETRA (lead partner...

Halfway point for the experimental phase of the LIFE-REthinkWASTE project in Varese. Through a KAYT (Know-as-you-throw) approach including customised telematic messages, gamification, eco-coaches and shopping vouchers, citizens are nudged to improve their separate collection of waste. On July 21st, the...

In Bassano del Grappa, one of the four pilot areas of the European LIFE-REthinkWASTE project, the testing of the KAYT (“Know-as-you-throw”) approach continues and is enhanced with important news! In fact, from 10 May to date, the 247 users registered...

The video was showcased in the course “Environmental taxation applied to waste (PAYT) and other incentive systems (KAYT)” In the third and last session of the course “Environmental Taxation applied to waste (PAYT) and other incentive systems”, Núria Pallerès, head...

As part of the European LIFE REthinkWASTE project, a production team has been recording in different parts of the municipality for the new video explaining the separate waste collection model and the parallel development of #coneixelquellences (KAYT) campaign. We took...

It’s been a month since KAYT #coneixelquellences campaign of LIFE Rethinkwaste through the chatbot coneixelquellences started. 272 people are already registered from the neighbourhoods of La Miranda and Canigó via Whatsapp, Telegram or SMS. They receive two types of messages...

In Bassano del Grappa the European project REthinkWASTE has come to life, since the testing phase of KAYT started last December. The initiative carried out by Etra SpA, the local waste management company and leader of the LIFE project, is...

A personalized letter, addressed to each of the 4,500 home users of the waste collection service, arrived in the homes of the 12,000 citizens of Bitetto (Bari province, South of Italy). The letter explains how to actively participate in the...

The trial of KAYT in Varese, in the pilot area with 5,000 inhabitants of Bustecche and San Carlo districts, reached the full implementation phase in early 2021, as a local test of LIFE RethinkWaste project translated into “Riciclo e Vinco”...

On April 26, some weeks after the waste containers were locked, the KAYT campaign named #coneixelquellences began! It consists on a chatbot through mobile phone that allows to obtain personalized information about waste separate collection, to solve doubts about recycling...

The first step in the project was taken online, through a meeting with the press and an online videoconference on the Municipality’s Facebook channel available to all citizens. Thus, started in Bitetto, a town with 12,000 inhabitants in the province...