March 3rd 2021
The solution foresees an innovative system for integrating direct and reverse logistic flows involving the national postal operator. The aim is to increase the amount of recycled materials (plastic caps, in the first stage of Living Lab, using university buildings as large attractors) while also minimizing CO2 transport-related emissions.
| BAU | Ad-hoc trips for transporting recycled materials |
| A1 | Integrating direct and reverse logistic flows for recycled materials |
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Adoption Rate
Alternative 1 : 25%
Adoption Willingness
Alternative 1 : 65%
Feasibility
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Consultation
Duration
Facilitators
- The academic partner (i.e. University of Roma Tre), while playing different roles, is the Living Lab facilitator helping the development of the implementation case throughout the process. It provided research knowledge useful for both determining barriers/opportunities/prerequisites and assessing impacts, and was also involved in testing the real
- life solution making available its department buildings.
Lessons Learnt
- Dealing with waste management is a complex task and requires involving both the Transport and the Environmental Department;
- The first round implementation proved the service tested technically feasible and environmentally sustainable. Financial viability is an issue and it might depend on project dimension and potentially public subsidies;
- Regulatory/contractual constraints is an issue for the choice of the material recycled to be transported. A possible solution could be to concentrate on consumed materials to be reused, in fact in this case no specific legislations apply;
- Choosing where to locate recycling facilities has to take into account contrasting issues (e.g. maximising the total amount of recycled materials, guaranteeing easiness of checking the filling status of disposal containers);
- There is a need to extend the implementation in terms of flows involved, sites and alternative recyclable/reusable waste by including the solution tested in the first round within the actual logistics process for urban waste management of the city of Rome (second round already started).
Barriers
- The choice concerning the clean waste to be transported by the national postal operator was critical given regulatory/contractual constraints. This led us to concentrate firstly on plastic caps.
- Checking the filling status is critical. We decided to use a non automatic IT alerting system, implying a formal agreement with the concierge service provider at the University.
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Rome
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