Bergischer Abfallwirtschaftsverband – City Park Management
The project The city of Nikopol is facing serious challenges in maintaining its municipal waste management system due to ongoing war and a lack of necessary equipment. Currently, waste is collected using 1100-liter containers. While this system works in most areas of the city, two neighborhoods remain inaccessible to standard garbage trucks due to narrow […]
Working meeting between the operators EcoService-2022 and BAV
Biowaste management in practice – learning and exchange in a German-Ukrainian utility partnership EcoService-2022 was founded in 2022 by four municipalities in the Poltava oblast as Ukraine’s first waste management association. The founding municipalities received significant support from the ‘Export Initiative Environmental Protection’, which is promoting the development of sustainable waste management in Ukraine on […]
Working meeting between Entsorgungsbetriebe Lübeck and the Sarandë regional water supply company
The business trip of the delegation from Entsorgungsbetriebe Lübeck (EBL) to Sarandë, Albania, took place from 22 April to 25 April 2025. The aim was to kick off the partnership with the Regional Water Utility Sarandë (RWUS) in the field of wastewater treatment, to take stock of the local wastewater treatment plant by EBL employees […]
EcoService2022 – Bergischer Abfallwirtschaftsverband
The project A key factor for the successful inter-municipal cooperation of the Ecoservice2022 waste association is increased economic efficiency. This means that the costs per tonne of waste disposed of in a regional system are lower for all participating units than the costs that each municipality would have to incur for its own services. In […]
Municipality of Cërrik – Entsorgungsbetriebe Lübeck
The project Cërrik already operates the first municipally run composting plant in Albania, which is to be operated and expanded more effectively with the help of Entsorgungsbetriebe Lübeck. The partnership will focus on optimising the process and the quality of the compost product. As Entsorgungsbetriebe Lübeck has a high level of expertise in this area, […]
Workshop Summary: How to Achieve Effective Monitoring of Operator Partnerships
Together with trainer Mohan Dhamotharan, employees of municipal companies involved in operator partnerships participated in the online training course “Achieving Results through Effective Partnerships.” The aim of the workshop was to equip participants with solid knowledge and practical tools for planning, implementing, and measuring the success of partnerships, with a particular focus on capacity outcomes. […]
Solidarity of North Rhine-Westphalian municipal utilities with Ukraine
The Ukraine conference under patronage of the federal government of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) on 18th of November 2024 in Cologne gave participants the opportunity to learn about various facets of Ukraine’s reconstruction efforts, exchange ideas with other experts from their respective fields and establish contacts with potential partners. North Rhine-Westphalian municipal utilities are amongst the […]
Looking back at IFAT Munich 2024
Today three months ago the Utility Platform attended IFAT Munich: the world’s leading trade fair for water, sewage, waste and raw materials management. With almost 150,000 visitors from almost 170 countries and regions, it brings together the most important international industry representatives from politics, business and science and offers exciting ideas and innovative solutions for […]
The EcoService2022 waste management association in Ukraine is aiming high
As part of the utility partnership between the Bergischer Abfallwirtschaftsverband (BAV) and the Ukrainian waste management association EcoService2022, 500 additional waste containers have been delivered to the Ukrainian region of Poltava. The delivery is part of an ambitious plan to introduce an effective waste management system and separate waste collection in the four Ukrainian municipalities […]
7. Network meeting of the Utility Platform: From waste to recyclables
At the seventh network meeting of the operator platform in April 2024, the representatives from Cërrik and Sarandë in Albania and from Poltava in Ukraine presented their partnerships – both the successes they have already achieved and the challenges they still face. The exchange of experiences was complemented by visits to the RETERRA composting plant […]
