Project description DEENESFRITPL Weighing and tracking waste in ‘pay as you throw’ collection schemes Households generate a tremendous amount of waste. Despite programmes for recycling and composting, much of the waste ends up at garbage dumps. Reducing waste and encouraging a circular economy is behind current ‘pay as you throw’ (PAYT) schemes. However, there is currently no good way to capture the volume of garbage in the standardised bags and thus ensure those with less garbage pay less. The Spanish SME Distromel has developed a weighing system along with radio frequency identification tags that can be integrated into containers to help optimise waste collection in PAYT programmes. The EU-funded SmartDtd project is helping the team prepare the commercialisation plan. Show the project objective Hide the project objective Objective "EU Waste Framework Directive targets recycling rates of 50% by 2020 for municipal waste. To reach this goal new waste management strategies need to be applied by municipalities, not only to align with EU recycling targets but also to be able to cover increasing disposal costs. Strategies should begin by making households aware of the necessity to lower their waste generation, while increasing their recycling rate. One of the most effective ways to motivate households, is through ""Pay as you throw"" (PAYT) schemes, based on the implementation of a disposal fee per household, according to the amount of waste generated. In order to be able to apply PAYT schemes, selective waste collection needs to be implemented by municipalities or waste management companies. One of the most common, is door-to-door (DtD) waste collection, as it greatly facilitates the application of PAYT schemes while promoting recycling among households. Even though, the combination of DtD collection with PAYT greatly reduces the load of waste generated, current systems to account for the amounf of waste generated per household are not accurate. They quantify based on the number of bags/bins (with a set volume) each household generates, without considering that in many occasions these bags/bins are just partially filled upon collection. Nevertheless, households are charged the same, neglecting if all the volume has been filled. A new accurate measuring system is needed. We are Distromel, a spanish company specialized in the develoment of technological solutions for the waste management market. Aiming to solve an increasing concurrent demand from private and public WM companies, we have created SmartDtD: a certified weighing and identification system (RFID number) integrated in a container that can be embedded in any truck (under EN-840).SmartDtD is a technological solution specially designed for door-to-door waste collection that will help optimize waste collection services as well as PAYT programs." Fields of science engineering and technologycivil engineeringurban engineeringsmart citiesengineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwaste managementnatural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesenvironmental sciencespollutionengineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringinformation engineeringtelecommunicationsradio technologynatural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdata sciencedata processing Programme(s) H2020-EU.2.3. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Innovation In SMEs Main Programme H2020-EU.3. - PRIORITY 'Societal challenges H2020-EU.2.1. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies Topic(s) EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020 - SME instrument Call for proposal H2020-EIC-SMEInst-2018-2020 See other projects for this call Sub call H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1 Funding Scheme SME-1 - SME instrument phase 1 Coordinator DISTROMEL SA Net EU contribution € 50 000,00 Address CTRA A-133 KM 4.8 22512 SAN ESTEBAN DE LITERA HUESCA Spain See on map SME The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed. Yes Region Noreste Aragón Huesca Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Total cost € 71 429,00
