BIN2BEAN

The project will implement 3 Living Labs (LL), in Amsterdam, Egaleo and Hamburg, as pilot city-regions, to follow a multi-actor and participative approach. In each LL, material and monetary flows will be drawn and a tailored evaluation framework to demonstrate the safety, environmental and socio-economic performance of soil improvers will be designed through field testing, feasibility studies and choice experiments. We will use a pilot scoring system developed by the project to identify the best solution that will be further developed into  innovative and tailored business models. The pre-market processes will be monitored through Techno-Economic Assessment (TEA). Finally, based on all previous results, local, national and EU policy roadmaps will be drafted, including waste charging policies and citizen awareness campaigns in the city-region, that will be piloted in LLs. All this will feed into a PDCA (Plan, Do, Check, Act) approach, enabling cities to create a continuous value-based improvement loop towards regenerative soil systems. BIN2BEAN will support local waste management with the creation of 40 start-ups specializing in the soil improvers value chains.