{"id":19839,"date":"2024-08-02T18:31:15","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T16:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etifor.com\/en\/?p=19839"},"modified":"2026-08-11T11:33:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T09:33:25","slug":"wastereduce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etifor.com\/en\/portfolio\/wastereduce\/","title":{"rendered":"Strategies to reduce waste in protected areas<\/span>"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Despite the efforts undertaken locally to preserve and enhance protected areas and Natura 2000 sites, waste accumulates uncontrollably due to increased visitors, polluting the terrestrial (green area) and the aquatic environment (blue area). Waste such as that carried by rivers and generated by coastal tourism often ends up in the Adriatic Sea, an area shared by the two countries involved in the project, Italy and Croatia.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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The project<\/span><\/h2><\/span>
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WASTEREDUCE will address these critical issues by developing, testing and implementing a new integrated, participatory and holistic approach that addresses waste management from different perspectives, favouring action at the landscape-level approach. The approach will follow the impact mitigation hierarchy, working on four levels to achieve integrated waste management: measure, avoid\/prevent, reduce and mitigate the impact of waste. The four levels will integrate the governance, socio-economic, technological and cultural domains to achieve the expected results, harnessing the different competencies of the project partners: local and regional authorities, managers of protected areas and Natura 2000 sites, academic institutions, private individuals and sectoral NGOs.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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