This WES regional activity will support the WES Partner Countries via technical support and capacity building to implement and adopt effective measures at national and regional level to strengthen and develop green and circular businesses in the Mediterranean.
A new four-year EU funded regional support project has just been launched. The Water and Environment Support project in the ENI Southern Neighbourhood region aims at protecting the environment and improving the management of scarce water resources in the Mediterranean. It will tackle problems related to pollution prevention and water use efficiency. This new project capitalizes on previous successful EU funded programmes like SWIM-Horizon 2020. The WES Partner Countries, where most activities will be implemented, are Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Libya, Palestine and Tunisia. Regional activities of the project are also open for Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mauritania, Montenegro and Turkey.
This WES regional activity will support the WES Partner Countries via technical support and capacity building to implement and adopt effective measures at national and regional level to strengthen and develop green and circular businesses in the Mediterranean.
WES is to provide technical assistance to the Environmental Quality Authority in Palestine to address plastic waste with focus on Single-Use Plastic Items. The core of this activity is to enhance the country’s awareness and capacity to respond to the challenges posed by plastic pollution/waste, with emphasis on SUPs.
This activity aims to improve the sorting, collection and recovery system for PET beverage packaging waste in Morocco through the establishment of Extended Producers Responsibility (EPR) in the PET sector. Through this joint initiative, supported and led by all stakeholders involved in the management and recovery of PET bottle packaging as part of a sustainable EPR model, stock will be taken of relevant already existing initiatives, effective dialogue among all stakeholders involved in the sector will be facilitated, a monitoring group for the implementation of EPR in the PET bottles sector (COPIL) will be set up and a roadmap and a work plan, for the establishment of an operational model for the management of PET beverage packaging based on the principle of EPR will be prepared.
Support will be provided to finalise the national action plan based on the consolidated findings of ongoing marine litter activities and for the implementation of selected priority measures. It will also support Morocco's efforts to meet its commitments under the Barcelona Convention.
WES will focus on the the analysis of single-use plastics activity (data analysis, sector assessment, technical measures accompanying the conversion of plastic bag manufacturers, the proposal of a policy) leading to a legal text for the progressive phasing out of plastic bags; This activity will be implemented in line with the respective guidelines, developed by United Nations Environment -Mediterranan Action Plan on phasing out single use plastic bags.
In Jordan, a transition away from Single-Use plastics is urgently needed in order to protect the environment. WES will provide support to the country's green and circular economy agenda and provide a Roadmap for the transition away from Single-Use Plastics (SUPs) at household and commercial levels.
This WES activity will support the MoE in the implementation of the Green Economy roadmap and green investment opportunities in the waste sector in Jordan by focusing on the issues of Single-Use Plastics and promotion of Green Banking.
WES will develop a policy guidance to ban plastic polymers that disrupt the sorting and recycling of plastics.