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Circular solutions for efficient visitor waste management and recycling services in the tourism sector

The pilot

Visitors generate large volume of mixed packaging waste and don’t place waste in correct bins often to allow recycling. We’ll work with entrepreneurs & visitors to increase circular economy using four processes concurrently for maximum impact:

1) Adopt point of sales solutions e.g. compostable packaging & reuse schemes

2) Incentivize visitors via gamifying waste disposal e.g. reverse vending & interactive bins

3) Optimize street & business waste collection e.g. smart bin & collection technologies, & for business waste services to explore new circular business opportunities

4) Local community engagement projects e.g. social enterprise to reduce demand for new plastic products via re-manufacture of post -consumer plastic packaging.

By motivating behaviour change to re-use & recycle plus optimizing waste management, we will increase recycling of SUP, estimating savings on energy recovery and a reduction of waste vehicle journeys. Also the carbon footprint will be reduced by 287 tonnes.

Pilot studies

Over deze pilot

Thema:	Waste management
R-strategie:	Recycle, Reduce, Refuse, Repurpose, Reuse
Betrokken partners:	Norfolk County Council

PILOT

Circular solutions for efficient visitor waste management and recycling services in the tourism sector

Visitors generate large volume of mixed packaging waste and often don't place waste in correct bins to allow recycling. We will work with entrepreneurs and visitors to increase circular economy using four processes concurrently for a maximum impact.

Referenties

Community Fridge Network in Norfolk, FACET, 13 april 2022.
Precious Plastics, FACET, 18 oktober 2022.

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-Currently, tourists generate a large volume of mixed packaging waste in Great Yarmouth due to the popularity of traditional fried fare, such as fish & chips. At present these foodstuffs cause a large amount of bulky single-use packaging e.g. lined/waxed card and polystyrene plastic contaminated by food. At this coastal resort bins in heavy foot-fall areas easily become overwhelmed during high season. This leads to an increase in bin collections, unsightly street litter and pests such as seagulls and rats. At Norfolk County Council and Great Yarmouth Borough Council we want to work with food-vending entrepreneurs to pilot an engaging 3 step solution:
+== Circular solutions for efficient visitor waste management and recycling services in the tourism sector ==
-)           Adopt a point of sales solution such as a Tupperware re-use scheme; a circular solution that will reduce the amount of unnecessary disposable packaging entering the waste stream. This will support small independent vendors to enhance the kind of green credentials that promotes customer loyalty.
+=== The pilot ===
+Visitors generate large volume of mixed packaging waste and don’t place waste in correct bins often to allow recycling. We’ll work with entrepreneurs & visitors to increase circular economy using four processes concurrently for maximum impact:
-)           Incentivize visitor engagement with the pilot through low-tech gamified waste disposal and deposit-return schemes. We plan to explore the use of nudge-theories or the use of interactive bins that incentivize participation in the pilot.
+) Adopt point of sales solutions e.g. compostable packaging & reuse schemes
-)           In addition to trialing the deposit-return scheme of reusable Tupperware we’ll also be exploring ways to optimize street and business waste collection to combat the age-old issue of street bin capacity. Having highlighted the most heavily used bin locations we’ll trial the use of smart bins and collection technologies to help streamline refuse collection for greater efficiency of resources.
+) Incentivize visitors via gamifying waste disposal e.g. reverse vending & interactive bins
+) Optimize street & business waste collection e.g. smart bin & collection technologies, & for business waste services to explore new circular business opportunities
+) Local community engagement projects e.g. social enterprise to reduce demand for new plastic products via re-manufacture of post -consumer plastic packaging.
+By motivating behaviour change to re-use & recycle plus optimizing waste management, we will increase recycling of SUP, estimating savings on energy recovery and a reduction of waste vehicle journeys. Also the carbon footprint will be reduced by 287 tonnes.
+=== Pilot studies ===
-By motivating behaviour change to reduce & re-use, as well as optimizing waste management we hope our pilot will achieve wide-spread benefits and drive greener aspirations among our independent business, waste operative teams and the tourists that help drive Great Yarmouth’s economy.
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