Good practice examples for the management and logistics of organic urban waste

This report was elaborated in the framework of the UrbanBiogas project (Urban waste for biomethane grid injection and transport in urban areas). The objective of this report is to show in short factsheets 11 examples of the management and logistics of organic urban waste in different European countries. This should provide input to the UrbanBiogas target cities City of Zagreb (Croatia), Municipality of Abrantes (Portugal), City of Graz (Austria), City of Rzeszów (Poland), and North Vidzeme Region including the City of Valmiera (Latvia), for which the UrbanBiogas consortium is currently developing Waste-to-Biomethane (WtB) concepts. In the WtB concept, anaerobic digestion (AD) from organic waste, adjacent upgrading to biomethane quality and grid injection in the natural gas distribution network or direct use in transport is promoted. The current situation, including legal financial and administrative framework conditions, in the target cities is very different. It ranges from no separate waste collection at all to quite sophisticates systems, from nearly no experience in biogas production and upgrading to some experience with several installations on the national level. Therefore, also the present report describes good practice examples for the management and logistics of organic urban waste in order to present a large range of different concepts in different countries. Complementary to this document, the UrbanBiogas consortium furthermore elaborated a report on ""Good practice projects for biogas production from waste, upgrading and utilization"", which is available at the UrbanBiogas website.