Torrelles de Llobregat: certified and plastic-free by plan

A certified Zero Waste city with a binding plastic prevention plan

Torrelles de Llobregat, a small ZWE-certified Zero Waste municipality in Catalonia, took its commitments further in 2024 by approving and starting to implement a binding Plastic Prevention Plan: following the same model as candidate city Viladecans. Torrelles also participates in the ERIC project alongside Viladecans, creating a productive pair of municipalities that share tools, funding, and lessons.

What Torrelles shows

• Small certified municipalities can lead on plastic prevention without large budgets
• Certification and plastic prevention planning are complementary: not sequential
• The ERIC project provided both the methodology and funding that made the plan viable

What you can do

• Visit Torrelles as a case study if you are working on Zero Waste strategies in your own municipality
• Contact Rezero to access the Torrelles and Viladecans plastic prevention planning tools
• Follow the ERIC project for replicable reuse infrastructure models applicable to any small city

Why it matters

Certified cities that continue innovating: instead of resting on certification: keep the Zero Waste movement credible and dynamic. Torrelles's plan shows that even very small municipalities can set binding plastic reduction targets.

Source & repost

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• Rezero: rezero.cat
• ERIC project: Elevating Reuse In Cities
• Report chapter: ZWE State of Zero Waste Municipalities, 5th edition