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The PlastiCity Project comes to an end. Stay in touch with local Urban Platforms and project partners

The PlastiCity will stop its activities at the end of March 2023. But the work isn’t over yet and all regions involved in the project have chosen or are developing their own pathway into the future. For an overview of what we achieved, we presented the insight on our closing event on 8 December in […]

Recycled plastics and urban challenges: design in a holistic way

On April 26, 2022, we were guests at Design Fest Gent for the kick-off of a design track on the application of recycled plastics in an urban environment. In order to boost the image of recycled plastics, we wanted to show that recycled plastics can also be used to create beautiful, sustainable, meaningful and saleable […]

“Maybe we can use tramlines to pick up plastic waste?” One way or another: how each city picks up its plastic waste

Reduce plastic waste! That's what we're striving for at PlastiCity. But different countries, different tactics. A new Plasticity report recommends that while in Ghent they could experiment with cargo boats, in The Hague they could split up the city in circles and provide each part with an adapted solution. They could even think of the […]

Help recycle plastic business waste in four cities!

The four PlastiCity cities would like to talk to companies that recycle plastic industrial waste in their region.

This is how you help to recycle plastic industrial waste in Ghent

PlastiCity is looking for companies in Ghent that want to play an important role in the recycling of plastic industrial waste. Discover the advantages here. Collection, recycling and reuse of plastic company waste PlastiCity, a European-funded project running in Ghent, The Hague, Southend-on-Sea and Douai, is testing the viability of

Report: Replicable strategy to produce solutions for the collection, sorting and reprocessing of commercial and industrial plastic waste in urban environments

This report outlines a strategy to produce solutions for the collection, sorting and reprocessing of commercial and industrial (C&I) plastic waste in urban environments. The strategy has been developed by the consortium of the Interreg 2 Seas project “PlastiCity” and will be applied in test studies in four European cities over the course

Webinar: what challenges and opportunities do participants experience

During the webinar, the various project partners of PlastiCity in Ghent zoomed in on their role in the project and the assets in the Ghent region: a local and European policy with attention to clean technology and the circular economy, Ghent University as a unique knowledge partner specializing in the recycling of plastics in the […]

The PlastiCity Project comes to an end. Stay in touch with local Urban Platforms and project partners

Recycled plastics and urban challenges: design in a holistic way

“Maybe we can use tramlines to pick up plastic waste?” One way or another: how each city picks up its plastic waste

Help recycle plastic business waste in four cities!

This is how you help to recycle plastic industrial waste in Ghent

Report: Replicable strategy to produce solutions for the collection, sorting and reprocessing of commercial and industrial plastic waste in urban environments

Webinar: what challenges and opportunities do participants experience

Plastics: kopzorg of kans?

Creating new circular value chains in The Hague and Douai

A plastic journey from The Hague to Ghent

PlastiCity Partners