Actions

ACCTION 1: Overall project operation

This action includes, among others: coordination of the communication among the Consortium, planning the activities to be performed by each institution, establishing the common format to present the outcomes of the project, prepare the documents to be delivered to the European Commission, and preparation of the annual and periodic meetings.

ACTION 2: Monitoring

For a well performance of the project, it is necessary to measure and document the effectiveness of the project actions as compared to the initial situation, objectives and expected results. As it will be a 3-year project, it is proposed to carry out activity reports, which will be coordinated by ESCI with contributions of the rest of the partners.

ACTION 3: Audit

An external verification, by an independent auditor nominated, of the financial statements provided to the Commission in the final project report will be carried out.

ACTION 4: Regulatory Framework and Legal issues

The main objective of this action is to analyse the regulatory framework of waste management in the area under the study but also in the whole Europe, since the final aim of the project is the transfer of knowledge of the FENIX outcomes into other European regions or countries.

ACTION 5: Methodological development

This action includes some activities:

  • Analyse the needs of the final users of the tool.
  • Analyse the different packaging waste collection systems within the area of the study.
  • Search experiences in other countries.
  • Choose the best database format for environmental inventory data collection.
  • Select waste management models and waste treatment technologies to be modelled into the software.
  • Establish the technical requirements for the software and the database.
  • Select some Spanish and Portuguese pilot municipalities that will be involved in the project.
  • Assign responsibility among project collaborators.

ACTION 6: Data search and modelling

This action is divided into three main activities: modelling of technologies and processes, data search and writing of Inventory Life Cycle reports.

ACTION 7: Software development and maintenance

Models of processes and packaging waste management technologies will be done using the Gabi 4.0 software, one of the most widely LCA software used worldwide. Since one of the objectives of this project is to make a friendly useful tool to obtain LCA results easily in order to assist municipal and regional waste treatment decision-makers, it will be necessary to create an easy interface to deal with database contents and the models created within Gabi. This interface should gather the needs and requirements of future users as far as possible and allow the user to make some changes in variable parameters like the type of container, the km between the city and the treatment facilities or chose one or another treatment processes.

ACTION 8: Ongoing revision

Taking into account the ISO 14044:2006 standards, it is necessary to carry out a revision of the software and the database by external experts in order to guarantee the quality of the final versions. This task will be done under this action.

ACTION 9: Transferability basis

This project aims at spreading life-cycle thinking and the use of LCA for packaging waste management to the rest of municipalities in Spain and Portugal, and to other European countries. Especially to those who have not so much experience on packaging waste management and treatment technologies and LCA. Furthermore, it is intended to determine the usefulness of the new software for governance.

ACTION 10: Training, communication and dissemination

It is one of the main objectives of this project to spread the knowledge to stakeholders related to packaging waste management as far as possible. Some training courses for selected municipalities will be performed in order to encourage them to participate (giving data, testing the demo version of the software and using the final version) at the beginning of the project. These courses will be also used to spread the life-cycle approach and the benefits of using LCA for waste treatment management among other municipalities once the final version is ready.