Budget and Duration
The Project "Strategies to improve and protect soil quality from the disposal of olive oil mills' wastes in the Mediterranean" began on 1st January 2009 and will last four years, until 31st December 2012.
Total B
udget : 1.628.911€
European Community contribution : 802.936€
Beneficiaries contribution : 770.975€
Co-financiers contribution : 55.000€
Project Description
ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEM TARGETED : Olive oil mills' wastes
The consumption of olives and olive oil is believed to bring health, however, the side products (wastewaters-OOMW and solid wastes-SW) from their production and treatment could be disastrous for the environment if no precautions are taken.
Innovations
Vacuum evaporation applied to olive mill waste waters
A technology which can be taken in consideration for a more sustainable disposal of waste waters is under vacuum evaporation. Such technology derived from specific sectors belonging to industry
LIFE Publications
Continuation of LIFE+ beyond 2013
News about LIFE's successor has been released from the European Commission which confirms a proposed LIFE budget of €3.2 billion over the 2014-2020 financial period. The new draft regulation refers to a LIFE Programme for the Environment and Climate Action and has been designed to build on the success of the existing LIFE+ Programme.
Web sites with environmental educational material, science, activities and games for children, parents and teachers
CARBON DETECTIVES
The Carbon Detectives programme provides support and ideas for actions that schools can take to shrink Carbon shoe size. It also provides tools to allow monitoring progress and report carbon savings, with thousands of schools participating across Europe.
Workshops and Conferences on Waste Management and Environment in general
2012
- WWPR 2012 – IWA Regional Conference on Wastewater Purification & Reuse, 28-30 March 2012, Heraclion, Crete, Greece. Aim of the Wastewater Purification and Reuse Regional Conference, is to gather, under one roof, all of you that your research, your business or your daily activity, is related to the purification of the wastewater and its reuse, irrelevant where that takes place and for what purpose.
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