Project CirBioWaste

CirBioWaste is a two-year Interreg Euro-MED project that started on April 1st, 2025. The project aims to enhance environmental resilience and support the transition to an efficient and circular bioeconomy in the Mediterranean area. It does so by promoting significant changes in behavior, governance, and management practices related to bio-waste, while closing its value chain loop – yielding notable environmental and economic benefits.

The Consortium includes: UAB (Spain), Fundació ENT (Spain), CIC (Italy), Zero (Portugal), REAP (Bulgaria) and ECOREC (Greece).

To help reverse the current situation, CirBioWaste will transfer existing, innovative, and validated solutions for sustainable bio-waste management, adapted to various local contexts. Strategies and action plans -including policy recommendations and practical guidelines for implementing the proposed solutions- will be co-developed with targeted entities and key local stakeholders. This will be done in collaboration with six experienced project partners and 19 project associates, including organizations from Catalonia and Italy with extensive expertise in bio-waste management, as well as other EU networks advocating for the topic.

The main goal of the CirBioWaste project is to support the improvement of environmental resilience and foster the transition to an efficient and circular bioeconomy in the MED area. The project promotes the implementation of sustainable bio-waste management to reduce environmental impact and create social and economic benefits in the EU MED area.

CirBioWaste aims at tackling the challenges, identified across partner experience and different EU projects, on the fulfilment of the obligation of member states to separately collect and recycle the municipal biowaste and meet the EU-related targets. The project will reach this goal by supporting the public administrations in the EU MED area in the implementation of existing innovative bio-waste management solutions adapted to their local context.

The activities of the project are related to fostering awareness to ensure proper quality of the bio-waste separated at source and proper use of the recycled products.

The project is co-funded by the Interreg Euro-MED Programme and has a duration of 27 months, from April 2025 to June 2027.

Link to the project website: https://cirbiowaste.interreg-euro-med.eu