Vratsa is now part of the CEMIS.BG platform

This is the second municipality after Sofia to provide its citizens with an informed choice for a circular economy

Only a month after its official launch, CEMIS.BG has grown into another settlement. Vratsa is the second municipality to join the circular economy platform. In this way, its citizens will be able to get information about the places for transfer of the generated household waste materials, as well as about the possibilities for their prevention, recycling and utilization.

CEMIS is the first and so far the only platform that summarizes the information available on the territory of the municipality for all places for delivery of packaging, textiles, car tires, batteries, electronics, hazardous waste, etc., as well as for the available composters and separate collection sites. of waste and their exact locations.

The platform will help Vratsa residents discover the benefits of the circular economy by learning to turn goods into reusable resources after their use and to stimulate secondary production and recycling, reduce waste generation and extend the life cycle of products. Through it, anyone interested can easily, quickly and conveniently find information about the sites for separate collection and transfer of household waste materials or used goods and belongings in the municipality.

CEMIS also provides useful information on the benefits of the circular economy, the types of waste and related legislation. Its great advantage is the forum in which registered users can exchange information with each other and initiate borrowing or sharing of goods and goods themselves, thus preventing the generation of waste. In this way, the platform becomes a public shared space where each user can send information about the places where waste can be delivered, the services available in the neighborhoods, services, campaigns, initiatives, good practices and even ideas for creation and development of models for circular economy.

The future users of CEMIS cover all groups of the Vratsa community – from the residents, the small neighborhood business and the non-governmental sector, to the organizations for waste recovery, the recycling industry and the administration. One of the main goals of the platform is to achieve increased awareness, which in turn will lead to the creation of a resource-oriented community with increased self-awareness and clearly presented opportunities to reduce the generation of household waste and increase the share of recycled and / or recycling of household waste materials.

Good cooperation between the initiators of the project and the municipal administration of Vratsa will be a prerequisite for the involvement of citizens, businesses, NGOs in the municipality in order to motivate their direct participation in the circular economy. The main goal is to form a public awareness and culture on issues of sustainability, saving resources and energy, recycling waste, reuse of materials and resources and more.

The platform was developed under project № BG16M1OP002-2.009-0036 “Pilot demonstration model for circular economy”, funded by the Operational Program “Environment 2014-2020”, co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund, with beneficiary MAGISTERIUM LTD.

					

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