These are the slides of a presentation held in Ankara on May 27th

1. The role of local authorities
in ecological development
What can local and regional authorities do as a response to climate
change and that can be beneficial for the citizens ?
Trainer: Louis Delcart

2. Elements of local involvement
in sustainable development
• Waste management
• From linear to circular economy means
also: job creation locally
• Elements of urbanisation
• Education & creating awareness
• Urban transportation management
• Ideas for circularity projects in a
municipality
• Cultural activities
• Eco Tourism
Ecosystem services to inhabitants
Circular economy and regional development — Make
Brussels an orchard city (tumblr.com)
Stimulating circularity in construction
https://earaercircular.tumblr.com/post/684600585815
818240/camp-c-officially-opens-new-circular-office

3. Waste management
Principles:
• economic sustainability
• https://lodelcar.tumblr.com/post/171418001965/regions-
and-cities-as-stimulators-towards-green
• adequate infrastructure and equipment
• https://lodelcar.tumblr.com/post/180955829970/waste-
management-and-circular-economy-in-flanders
• enforcement of regulations
• qualified staff
• political willingness to integrate all of the above
Warnings:
• garbage should be taken care of
• otherwise, it will cost much more & the bill is being paid
even through the healthcare system
https://earaercircular.tumblr.com/post/6
74650906765164544/20-billion-litres-of-
circular-cooling-water-per
https://earaercircular.tumblr.com/post/6
81073627346665472/municipal-waste-
serbias-untapped-resource

4. From linear to circular economy means also:
job creation locally
• separating waste at the source in
order for it to be reused and
recycled
• incentivise those who sort their
waste, separate packaging for
recycling purposes
• municipal waste management
system must be economically
sustainable with Extended
producer responsibility
The Greek Ministry of the Interior has already launched a pilot project
with one hundred reverse vending machines in five municipalities:
Kallithea and Nea Smyrni in Attica, Ioannina, Nafplio and Andros island.
They were picked for low recycling rates.
The spending package is intended to raise employment by 40,000,
according to the official. He added 10% of the funds would be allocated
for solid waste management. The development scheme, mostly financed
by the European Union, will include energy efficiency measures,
sewerage and water supply.
https://earaercircular.tumblr.com/post/68303865572768153
6/greece-presents-mobile-recycling-kiosk-powered-by

5. Elements of urbanisation
• Urbanisation planning
• Housing space, industrial sites, agricultural sites, parcs, nature
• https://earaercircular.tumblr.com/post/666315656278556672/barcelona-has-its-own-vegetable-garden-in-the
• Building permits
• Insulation, sewage, energy distribution, separate waste water from rain water recovery, rain water
reuse
• Pollution management
• Rain water reuse, waste water treatment, ground pollution, water pollution, air
pollution
• Urban transportation management
• Separate waste collection points
• Punto limpios
• Public construction initiatives
• Impose reuse of construction material
• https://earaercircular.tumblr.com/post/681986490715242496/in-its-newest-allotment-wvi-experiments-with
• https://earaercircular.tumblr.com/post/678237819155677184/belgium-gets-cement-free-sewage-pipes
• https://earaercircular.tumblr.com/post/657126657158742016/ecological-building-from-old-concrete
• https://earaercircular.tumblr.com/post/653796957946544128/circular-concrete-to-reduce-co2-emissions-in-the
• Traffic management + Public transportation management
• Cf further

6. Education & creating awareness
• Local schools
• Include awareness for waste in school
context; Circular economy and regional
development — Are you a fan of recycling or
one of those people... (tumblr.com)
• Universities
• University communities are gradually
mobilizing around climate issues
• Circular economy and regional development
— Challenges to address climate change at
university (tumblr.com)

7. Creating awareness in the public
• Organise separate waste collection
• Stimulate separate waste collection
• Stimulate awareness for circularity
• Slow fashion
(https://earaercircular.tumblr.com/post/68
3604658634309632/joana-anna-and-
salom%C3%A9-are-three-millennials-who)
• “Donut” cities
https://www.change.inc/circulaire-
economie/europese-campagne-moet-
donuteconomie-op-de-kaart-zetten-38256
• “Zero waste” area
https://earaercircular.tumblr.com/post/6718
06064425140224/what-to-do-with-the-
garbage
The Italian municipality Municipality of Andria is preparing a revolution in
separate waste collection in the city. The new proposal is divided into five steps:
the improvement of hardware and software instrumentation for applications
concerning various management aspects, in particular the computer reading of
the citizens’ waste contributions and their measurement. Other stages in the
program include the installation of on-board telematic devices to monitor
collection vehicles in real time, record the history of the route and the activity
of the driver, as well as the type of waste, and the acquisition of equipment for
home separate waste collection for the entire municipal area. Collection bags
will finally be equipped with an identification tag of the user to which they have
been assigned, so as to be able to detect the time and date of conferment.
https://earaercircular.tumblr.com/post/678716671
286968320/andria-green-turnaround-on-waste

8. Ideas for circularity projects in a municipality 1
• https://earaercircular.tumblr.com/post/665487447558
438912/dutch-start-up-raises-millions-in-investment-to
The Dutch start-up Seenons, founded in 2019, uses
technology and smart logistics to help companies recycle
waste streams such as coffee grounds, oranges and oil.
• Seenons already collects orange peels and coffee grounds from the
Amsterdam catering industry and delivers the load to liqueur maker
Dik & Schil. Coffee grounds can also be used very well to make soap
or to use as a breeding ground for oyster mushrooms.
• https://earaercircular.tumblr.com/post/650959780738
924544/recycling-concrete-makes-a-big-leap-forward
A Dutch invention to separate concrete into raw materials
reduces material use and saves containers of CO2. The
“urban miners” of New Horizon now want to find more
places to set up the concrete machines and are looking for
municipalities and regions that can help. Ultimately, the
goal is to make the invention big worldwide.

9. Ideas for circularity projects in a municipality 2
• https://earaercircular.tumblr.com/post/681593695268
732928/brazil-records-987-recycling-of-aluminium-cans
Brazil recycled approximately 33 billion aluminium cans in 2021, which
represents 98.7% of reuse of the material produced throughout the year.
• One of the great benefits of aluminium recycling is that it serves as a
source of income for thousands of Brazilians, who resell the cans so
that the aluminium producing companies themselves create new
products with lower costs. Another plus point of recycled aluminium is
that materials made from it have the same quality as new.
• https://earaercircular.tumblr.com/post/683340008981
184512/backed-by-the-estonian-sheep-ecosystem-
woola-is
The packaging industry is the single largest consumer of plastics in the
world. Because that plastic almost always gets put directly into the
garbage, Woola’s founding team knew that they needed to develop a
product that wouldn’t rely on fossil fuels and would be sustainable
(read: actually reusable or recyclable).

10. Urban transportation management
• The world’s population keeps growing and urbanisation is on the
rise.
• More and more people and goods are on the move — to the
point where road transport is responsible for 20% of CO2
emissions globally
• We can’t fight climate change without addressing road
transportation
• While electric cars will be a big part of the solution, simply
building better private cars is not enough. Electric cars don’t solve
the problem of congestion, and we’re reaching bottlenecks in
charging them. So we need to provide other tools to create better
living environments.
• The number of personal cars in city traffic can’t keep growing
• A solution can be to reduce the number of trips you use your
personal car for, contributing to protecting the environment.
https://earaercircular.tumblr.com/post/683255367993524224/mech
elen-takes-shared-mobility-to-a-higher-level
https://earaercircular.tumblr.com/post/683671008660668416/eston
ian-autonomous-vehicle-company-auve-tech-is

11. A cultural activity?
La Música del Reciclaje, is an orchestra-social project
promoted by Ecoembes and armed with instruments
made with waste: cans, cutlery, boxes, bricks …
The interpreters are young people between seven and
15 years old, at risk of social exclusion, from day centres
and schools in the Community of Madrid.
The idea of this band comes from the pioneering
Orquesta de Cateura, its Paraguayan counterpart, a
group of kids who turned the garbage from the landfill
that dominated the neighbourhood in which they lived
into compositions.
https://earaercircular.tumblr.com/post/67048360457443
7376/the-orchestra-that-transforms-garbage-into-sound

12. Tourism & ecology
Moreover:
• Respect of nature : no plastics !
• Human health: hiking, biking, food
• Local economy: local food, local
activities
• Tourism ecology is a tourism development
theory and practice that naturally makes
possible the efficient development of
different areas building upon natural and
economical-social-cultural resources.
• Besides, tourism ecology could be a
toolkit of the regional development.
https://www.igi-global.com/article/new-
views-combined-with-new-technologies-
in-the-tourism-sector/239603

13. Thank you for your attention
Blog about Regional Development This presentation on internet
https://lodelcar.tumblr.com/
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