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Effective waste management is heavily dependent on the development of innovative solutions for waste collection and treatment. This is where public procurement comes in: it can act as a key instrument to galvanise the market in order to preserve and recycle material resources. Public procurement of innovation (PPI), particularly, is a way to encourage the development of new, more efficient solutions, but can be hampered by a lack of cross-border coordination, limited access to best practice cases, and limited or no knowledge of close-to-market innovative solutions. The PPI4Waste project, among many other objectives, also gives an overview of the current waste management, and at the same time explores mechanisms to overcome barriers to public procurement of innovation in the waste management sector, where a number of activities are taking place within the project lifetime to help increase uptake of innovative waste solutions. Special focus has been given to the sustainable management of biowaste and plastic waste. In this sense, the PPI4Waste project aims to achieve resource efficiency, sustainable waste management and sustainable consumption throughout Europe by increasing innovative public procurement through networking, capacity building, and dissemination. In particular, the project aims to develop know-how on PPI procedures and make state-of-the-art solutions accessible to other procurers. In turn, this will encourage a quicker market uptake of such solutions and improve the quality and efficiency of services provided by public authorities. In order to achieve this, the common needs within the public sector in Europe have been identified, and presented in this paper, with an intention to move from product purchase towards the service delivery. |
