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The Ile-de-France Region Waste Management Observatory is a non-proit organisation under the 1901 law created on 23 November 1992 as a joint initiative between the government and the Ile-de-France region, with its regional focus deemed conducive to a global consideration of waste management. |
In order to adhere to objectives speciied in the regulations, the management of household waste was to be reviewed in its entirety, with a particular focus on the Ile-de-France region.
The purpose of ORDIF is to extend knowledge, disseminate information and produce waste management indicators for the Ile-de-France.
It constitutes a tool for analysis and ongoing monitoring, enabling technical waste management solutions to be developed for the Ile-de-France, most notably in the context of public policies. To this end, it creates, develops, manages and updates a database that can be integrated into the various statistical and regional geographic information systems.
It also produces studies, surveys and tools based on items of scientific, economic and technical information, made available by the relevant partners and professionals in the Ile-de-France region.
ORDIF promotes exchanges between public, private and associative stakeholders within its area of responsibility.
On a daily basis it centralises and disseminates news and events associated with waste management in the Ile-de-France and organises presentations and exchanges.
INTERREG IVC and Pre-waste project
March 2010 : Pre-Waste, the INTERREG IVC project including ORDIF is officially approved.
INTERREG IVC is a European regional policy’s programme. It aims at improving the effectiveness of regional development policies and the competitiveness of regional economies through the share of European experiences and knowledge. Waste management is included in the programme as an important issue of the environment policy and European risk prevention’s strategy.
Pre-waste project is a result of this political willingness. It gathers 10 partners from all Europe: ORDIF (Fr), March Region (It), Association of Cities & Regions for Recycling and for sustainable Resource management (ACR+), Municipality of Roquetas (ES), Municipality of Sofia (BG), Brussels Environment (IBGE), Public Cooperation Department of Ilfov County (RO), Municipality of Karlskrona (SE), Tampere Regional Solid Waste Management Ltd (FI) and WasteServ Malta. It will last 3 years.
Thanks to the share of information and experiences, partners hope to assess and share good practices concerning successful waste prevention policies which should contribute to regional economic modernisation and reduce European waste production.
ORDIF is the leader of the working group responsible for defining indicators in order to assess prevention policies and actions implemented on a quantitative point of view as on economical, social and environmental sides. This working group will also allow the participants to work on a shared observation of waste management.
More information :
- Interreg Pre Waste partners
- Press release "European indicators to assess waste prevention policies efficiency" (07/2010)
