Date/time
Date(s) - 15/12/2022 - 15/12/2024
00:00
Project type
Selected participants
Summary of the project idea:
Track-Map-Clean project aims at raising awareness regarding the environmental issues
produced by inadequate waste disposal. During this project we will develop educational and digital tools for youth workers, NGOs and youth, in order to foster eco-friendly practices and encourage innovative solutions to overcome environmental problems. The first result will be a Guide aimed at supporting youth workers, trainers, NGOs in their work with youth to provide them good practices regarding the usage of digital tools for environmental protection and a training plan meant to target the development of green skills. The second result will be an APP, called Track-Map-Clean which has the purpose for the users to identify places where waste is disposed inadequate, pin it on the map with the purpose that other users that have capacity (individuals, NGOs, public bodies) to come and clean the area.
Context and relevance:
The EU Data Centre on Waste compiles waste data at European level. According to data for 2010 for 29 European countries (i.e. EU-28 and Norway), around 60 % of the waste
generated consisted of mineral waste and soil, largely from construction and demolition
activities and mining. For metal, paper and cardboard, wood, chemical and medical waste
and animal and vegetal wastes, each waste type ranged from 2 % to 4 % of the total.
Around 10 % of the total waste generated in Europe consists of what is known as ‘municipal waste’ — waste generated mainly by households, and to a lesser extent by small businesses, and by public buildings such as schools and hospitals.
In 2012, 481 kg of municipal solid waste was generated per person in the 33 member
countries of the European Environment Agency (EEA). There is a slight downward trend
from 2007 onwards, which can be explained partly by the economic crisis affecting Europe since 2008.
The slight dip observed in municipal waste generated in the EU might have helped reduce
the environmental impacts of waste, to some extent. However, while waste quantities are
important, waste management also plays a key role. Overall, in the EU, an increasing amount of waste is recycled and a decreasing amount is sent to landfills. For municipal waste, the share of recycled or composted waste in the EU-27 increased from 31 % in 2004 to 41 % in 2012.
Despite these achievements, large discrepancies still exist between countries. Forexample,
Germany, Sweden and Switzerland each send less than 2 % of their municipal waste to
landfills, while Croatia, Latvia and Malta each landfill more than 90 %. Most of the countries with low landfilling rates have high recycling and incineration rates, both above 30 % of their total municipal waste.
Youth have both special concerns and special responsibilities in relation to the environment. A number of environmental risks and hazards disproportionately affect young people, who have to live for an extended period with the deteriorating environment bequeathed to them by earlier generations. Young people will be compelled to engage in new forms of action and activism that will generate effective responses to ecological challenges.
Target groups:
Direct target group: youth workers, trainers, NGOs etc.
Indirect target group: youth, environmental activists
Objectives:
. Create educational tools to support youth workers in their trainings targeting the
development of green skills of young people;
. Raise awareness of the environmental issues caused by waste, among young people;
. Create digital solutions to environmental problems in the youth work field;
. Foster youth civic participation in the development of innovative solutions to overcome
environmental problems.
Implementation activities:
. Coordination & internal communication
. Sharing and promotion (online and offline)
. Monitoring and ensuring the quality
. Risk management
. Creation of a Guide: Digitalization for environmental protection
. Design an APP: Track – Map – Clean
. organise a LTTA for youth workers (Portugal)
. organise local workshops for youth
. 3 Transnational meetings (Slovakia, Spain, Romania)
. 5 Multiplier events (Slovakia, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Italy)
Results:
. Guide: Digitalization for environmental protection
. APP: Track – Map – Clean
. 10 staff members involved in the creation of the result and attending the TPMs (2 per
partner)
. 15 youth workers organising environmental local workshops (3 per partner)
. 200 youth participating in the local workshops and testing the APP (40 per country)
. 150 participants in the multiplier events (30 per country)
