During the period 18-19.02.2025, the 3rd Validation Workshop and partners meeting took place at the “La Térmica” Cultural Center in Malaga, Spain.
Within two days partners had the opportunity to debriefing of the project roadmap and the project’s next steps, hosted by RSU Málaga. Malaga Provincial Waste Consortium (RSU Malaga) is a public administration that manages the waste of 91 municipalities in the Province of Malaga, serving some 540,000 inhabitants. In the 91 municipalities RSU carry out the selective collection of paper, glass and light packaging from homes, as well as the treatment of mixed waste from home collection. RSU also carry out the management of bulky waste, WEEE and RCDs in municipalities that request it.
The transnational meeting began with welcoming words and a short presentation on the Málaga Provincial Council (Diputación de Málaga), detailing the territory. After that the consortium was led by the lead partner (PACT) and all current and ongoing project activities were discussed.
The validation workshop program was mainly focused on presenting the drafts of LAPs, the Methodology and the online self-assessment tool. Also, the pilot tests WEEE Behave, WEEE Procure and WEEE Reuse, that will be applied throughout 2025 were clarification and suggestions for their implementation were shared by each partner representative.
Later on, partners benefited from a presentation by a professor from the local University of Málaga, which highlighted the lack of usefulness in focusing solely on collection rates due to the highly toxic materials that are most environmentally damaging that are contained in a very small percentage of e-waste. The consortium assisted a presentation by the company Recilec, a private shareholder-owned company working in e-waste. At the end the Province of Málaga’s Department of Environment presented the Málaga Viva Project – a strategy to fight climate change in the province of Málaga through an interdepartmental, teamwork-focused approach.
