February 2023 – PlastiCityProject

PlastiCity in a nuttshell: an impression of the closing event in Ghent on 8 December 2022

We were honoured to welcome everyone during the closing event on 8 December 2022 in Ghent. Even though the regions involved continued their efforts to accomplish a higher recycling rate of post consumer non-household plastic waste in urban environments - the so-called 'lost plastics'- the time had come to share some results with the world.

The Urban Water Tree as an example of how the City of Ghent could incorporate recycled plastics in their path towards climate neutrality

The City of Ghent embraces circularity with projects such as the Circuit Circulair contest, Gent Flipt, Circular Kickstart, Capture etc.In order to facilitate an easy transition towards a more circular society you can't ignore plastics. And that's exactly the core challenge in the INTERREG PlastiCity project: we are investigating how we can

PlastiCity handbook with guidelines for local governments

We’ve developed a PlastiCity handbook to provide local or regional governmental organisations recommendations on how to establish a community of stakeholders for building new value chains and business cases for post-consumer non household plastic waste - the so called ‘lost plastics’ - in urban environments. Urban environments are major