Study tour: Basque countries

On top of the good practices of waste management, the tour visited good practices on circular economy in the Basque countries. In this sense, several companies were visited in sectors like gastronomy, fashion or remanufacturing. Although delivering average results as a whole, the Basque Country contains very diverse highly performing practices of waste management and circular economy.

What did we visit?

• Door-to-door collection
• Roadside containers with chip
• Composting facilities
• Biowaste managed through community composting (& Austrian model)
• Textile sorting facility for reuse
• Circular fashion company
• ZW Michelin-starred restaurant