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Since July 2020, companions from Cyprus, Greece and Malta labored collectively as a part of the challenge titled “Lowering the Consumption and Disposal of Single-use Plastics within the Tourism Business in Cyprus, Greece and Malta”, often known as “SUPMed”. The Challenge supplied revolutionary and sustainable options for vacationer institutions to effortlessly scale back the consumption, disposal and impacts of Single Use Plastics (SUP) within the tourism sector in these three areas, according to EU Directive 2019/904 (on the discount of the impacts of plastic merchandise). These options had been examined by the ten vacationer institutions in Cyprus, Greece and Malta via a pilot program. The outcomes proved the effectiveness of the steered suggestions and general success of the challenge. The methodology, contribution of the pilot vacationer institutions, affect of the SUP within the setting and human well being and different related info is supplied within the Greatest Apply Information (obtainable to obtain on line from https://www.supmed.eu/en/).

Vacationer institutions throughout Europe can profit from the challenge’s findings and deliverables to assist them scale back SUP consumption and disposal, in addition to information them in a transition in the direction of a extra environmentally sustainable administration type. It should assist be sure that their operations are according to the necessities outlined within the EU SUP Laws.

The challenge had three essential deliverables:

1. Resolution Assist Instrument (DST)

The DST supplies a platform for companies/entities to evaluate the environmental affect of their present SUP product choice in contrast with obtainable product options. The DST doesn’t focus solely on the pure setting, but in addition supplies a value evaluation of the change to various SUP merchandise.

2. Bespoke Motion Plans

Following on from the gathering of baseline knowledge supplied by the lodge employees on the consumption of SUP objects (together with knowledge from the DST), interviews with lodge visitors and employees and in-house observations, a Bespoke Motion Plan was drafted for every of the pilot lodges (a complete of 10 plans). The Motion Plans present an summary of the SUPMed challenge, a abstract of the outcomes of the information assortment within the lodges and a sequence of suggestions to assist the person lodges transfer away from SUP objects to extra environmentally pleasant, but price efficient options.

3. Greatest Apply Information

The Greatest Apply Information goals to offer an summary of the impacts of plastic on human and environmental well being, current the outcomes of the pilot research, assessment the obtainable SUP options and their environmental affect based mostly on the DST and replicate the suggestions made within the particular person Motion Plans. Lastly, the report summarises the teachings learnt from the challenge and apply them to the tourism trade as a complete, and different related industries, to assist the European Member States transfer away from SUP consumption.

To seek out out extra concerning the challenge and the Greatest Apply Information, take a look at the challenge web site.

Extra concerning the challenge:

The SUPMed challenge runs till June 2023 with a complete finances of €1,279,405.00. The six challenge companions taking part within the challenge are Aspon Consulting Ltd because the Lead Accomplice (CY), Heraklion Chamber of Commerce and Business (GR), Anelixis Growth Consultants S.A. (GR), Cellock Ltd (CY), AIS Surroundings (MT) and the Cyprus Lodge Affiliation (CY). 

The challenge consortium goals to scale back the consumption, disposal and impacts of SUP within the tourism sector in these three areas, according to EU Directive 2019/904 on the discount of the impacts of plastic merchandise. Via this challenge, the companions will assist samples of coastal vacationer institutions in Cyprus, Malta and Greece (Crete) by way of pilots to maneuver to sustainable resource-efficient enterprise fashions. The institutions will establish and change commonly-used SUP with environmentally friendlier, available and inexpensive options. The pilot samples shall be supported in phasing out and changing SUP by way of a bespoke free web-based decision-support instrument (DST) that shall be developed. The DST will current viable and obtainable options to probably the most generally used SUP, bearing in mind the fee and environmental impacts of every various throughout its life-cycle.

Following the completion of the pilot in every of the three areas, a single greatest follow information shall be developed that can current the findings of the pilots, the impacts of plastic waste on human well being and the setting, find out how to scale back SUP within the tourism and different sectors and what environmentally friendlier and inexpensive options can be found. These guides shall be disseminated to SMEs, NGOs, vacationer institutions and different related stakeholders within the three areas and throughout Europe, as an extra assist instrument in changing SUPs.

The ten vacationer institutions of the pilot pattern of the challenge per nation are:  

1. Cyprus:

2. Greece – Crete:

3. Malta:

• Hilton Malta

• 1926 Lodge & Spa

• Mellieha Vacation Centre

The challenge “Lowering the Consumption and Disposal of Single-use Plastics within the Tourism Business in Cyprus, Greece and Malta” is funded by Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway via the EEA and Norway Grants Fund for Regional Cooperation.

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