The Smart Re-Use Park (SRP) of Kempten follows an area-wide approach and covers the functional urban area (FUA) of ZAK waste management. The FUA comprises 48 municipalities and more than 300.000 inhabitants.... 

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Cooperativa sociale Insieme implemented the SRP thanks to the Surface project and starting from 40 years of experience in the recovery, selection and sale of used goods....
 
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The assigned FUA from Hungary is the capital city of Hungary, Budapest. Its territory belongs to the service area of the Metropolitan Public Domain Maintenance PLC (MPDM). They are responsible for cleaning the public areas and waste management of the city....

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The Repair Café “Stajnia”, the first reuse point in Kujawsko-Pomorskie Region (Poland) has been operating since November 2019. “Stajnia” (means stable) is run by the Tilia Association....

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The Smart Re-Use Park concept was implemented in Tyrol as the online platform www.noamol.at.
This platform shows the citizens environmentally friendly and resource-saving alternatives for throwing away used items. Conversely, there is also information about how to get used goods....

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Following the principles of a plan-do-check-act-cycle we developed a quality scheme for the control and continuous improvement of a Re-Use-Park.  

The quality scheme contains criteria in areas of management and organisational structures, integration of SRP providers (actors) and the integration of services provided.

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You have set up a Smart Re-Use Park (SRP) and are overwhelmed with the variety of activities and needs in your region? 

A SRP manager can help to manage actors and activities and fulfilling public relation activities.

Our training modules shall give you an idea of what specific know-how a SRP manager needs. 

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In order to fullfill all three pillars of sustainability also the economic dimension of a Smart Re-Use Park (SRP) needs to be considered in the planning phase carefully.  

For this reason the SURFACE consortium elaborated and evaluated a tool that allows and suggests a great variety of costs that might occur so that nothing remains unconsidered. 

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A good advice when setting up a Smart Re-Use Park (SRP) is to learn from the experience of others and look at best-practice examples.  

For this reason the SURFACE consortium gathered some case histories on policy requirements and on operational requirements in their functional urban areas.

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You are in the stage to settle specific re-use collaborations in your region? 

Our templates for collaboration agreements shall give you an idea of what should be defined by the involved collaboration partners.

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You want to visualize the current status of potential cooperation in the field of re-use in your region?

The cooperation matrix describes all possible synergies and combinations between public authorities, private companies, social enterprises in your region.

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You want to start with the set-up of a smart re-use park?

Then the decision matrix is the first tool you should consider to reach your goal.

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One of SURFACE´s most important outcomes is a number of tools and instruments that are established throughout the 3 years project phase. Besides pilot actions, training and action plans, those tools should be something that will help other regions or cities when starting Smart Re-Use Park (SRP) activities.

During project life this section will be populated with the description of each tool

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In the first week of June 2020 the Interreg SURFACE final conference »Re-Use: Key Element of a Circular Economy in Central Europe and beyond« took place online in form of two interactive online events! The number of 160 registered people from more than 20 European countries underlines the relevance of the topic of re-use and is proof that the theme of the conference was brought into practice.

The last Learning Journey and Twinning Meeting were held online on June 3rd. Through an online platform, project partners and their guests met and had a virtual tour of the SRP in Mid-Tyrol managed by Waste Management Association Mid-Tyrol. 

In the month of May SURFACE has promoted  an intense Facebook campaign with the goal of reaching general public to disseminate project achievements and enhance public awareness on Re-use.
The project Facebook page, already active since project start, has been populated during the whole month with posts, news, videos, project deliveries in order to reach the greatest number of recipients.