Goals and services

The Association aims to achieve the following goals:

• Promoting, in the area of the management of the waste in Catalonia, the model of selective collection called "Door to Door". We believe that it is this fully compatible with the principles of prevention of the pollution, minimization of the waste, waste evaluation, sufficiency, proximity, protection and regeneration of the ground and of transparency. Moreover it has demonstrated that is able to achieve the maximum degree of efficiency - both at quantitative level and qualitative one- until today.
  
  
• Promoting and briefing about the "Door on Door" waste collection system to anyone interested and to other local entities (municipalities, associations, consortiums, etc), institutions, organizations, etc.
  
  
• To establish the suitable frame to make possible a more fluid exchange of experiences among the towns that carry out the DtD waste collection.
  
  
• Organizing technical encounters in order to study DtD
  
  
• Spreading the results from studies and experiences linked to the DtD collection.

Exclusive services

Moreover, for the members of law, with exclusive character, it offers the following services:

• Join procurementof every type of material (compostable bags, buckets, etc) so that it entails an economic saving for the members of law associated
  

• Coordinating the request of grants, help, etc in order to fund any of the ordinary activities object of the association, and in a specific way to carry out campaigns.
  

• Acces to reports, results, study about the door selective collection on door.

Projects and other services

The Association as much of its members as of the rest of Catalan towns, administrations and institutions, companies, other interested collectives, etc makes available studies, documents and reports about the DtD that they can consult themselves on the section of Documentation.

At present, the Association is working in the following specific projects, as approved in the last Assembly:

Follow-up and implantation of the DtD

Visits DtD towns to know novelties and problems of the waste collection

Study for the Regional Government of Barcelona: monitoring implantation in Barcelona province towns

Study for the Agency of Waste of Catalonia: monitoring implantation in towns of all Catalonia

Joint purchases

Proposal of join procurement procedure of compostable bags

Exchanges of experiences

Workshops among  DtD towns, for exchanges of experiences.

Singular projects

Singular project: Feasibility of the implantation of the door to door selective waste collection in towns of less than 5.000 inhabitants (ARC support)

Singular project: Impacts of the compostable bag in the management of the biowaste (ARC support).

Singular project: writing of the "Municipal handbook about the DtD selective waste collection in Spain" (ARC support).

Other

Publication of the quarterly electronic Bulletin InfoPaP

Update of the Web Page

Diffusion of the “Municipal handbook about the DtD selective waste collection in Catalonia"

Preparation of budgets and script for a shortmovie about DtD

Presence in conference, forums and fairs about management of waste