The APPRICOD project - Assessing the Potential of Plastic Recycling in Construction and Demolition Activities aimed at developing a partnership between various European actors to promote the selective collection of plastic waste from construction and demolition (C&D) activities.
Project co-funded by the European Commission under the LIFE-Environment programme, 2003 - 2006.
APPRICOD aims to optimise the selective collection of plastic waste from C&D sites, to evaluate the costs associated with the selective collection of plastic C&D waste and to disseminate at European level examples of sustainable management of plastic C&D waste.
To achieve its objectives a variety of sorting and selective collection scenarios were evaluated in pilot projects.
ACR+ and the partners have contributed to the project, notably through the analysis and description of the legal framework and of the practical organisation of the C&D waste management in several European countries (Germany, Austria, the Netherlands and Denmark). The project has constituted one of the important activities in 2006 since ACR+ was responsible for drawing conclusions from the actions implemented and for the dissemination of the project results.
In order to do so, ACR+ with the contribution of IBGE-BIM have organised a European Worskhop held in Brussels on 24th April 2006.
ACR+ has produced a summary leaflet, as well as a guide entitled "Towards Sustainable Plastic Construction and Demolition Waste Management in Europe".
The guide "Towards Sustainable Plastic Construction and Demolition Waste Management in Europe" is available in 6 languages: EN; FR; CAT; PT; IT; NL.
Table of contents : EN; FR; CAT; PT; IT, NL.
The leaflet, which summerizes the project, is available in:EN; FR; ES; CAT; PT; IT; NL.
This project is based on a partnership between local and regional authorities, European federations of plastics industry, and the construction and demolition sector.