Building on BETA Technological Center’s established experience with municipal waste management and community composting in the Vic area, MEDWISE is carrying out targeted networking and field visits with local actors around Vic and Masies de Roda (Catalonia, Spain). The aim is to connect existing knowledge of waste practices with the specific context and objectives of the decentralised composting pilot in Masies de Roda under MEDWISE.
As part of Vic’s environmental activities, the team joined a visit to the regional landfill where residual waste from Vic is currently sent, including mixed fractions that previously contained organics from Masies de Roda. For MEDWISE, this visit served to contrast existing data and experience with on-site observations of how residual waste is managed, and to illustrate how upstream solutions, such as improved separate collection and local composting, can support the reduction of organic material reaching landfill.
In parallel, MEDWISE participated in an outing organised by CREC with a working group on selective collection, focused on a container closure system designed to regulate access and improve participation. This was an opportunity to observe how access-control technologies perform in practice and to reflect on possible analogies with the planned closure of community composters in Masies de Roda, which rely on similar principles of controlled access and user engagement.
These networking and learning activities complement ongoing discussions with the municipality and residents of Masies de Roda, where existing community composting points are being analysed and planned. Taken together, the visits and local interactions help MEDWISE position the Masies de Roda pilot within the broader waste management context, ensuring that future actions are grounded in real operational conditions and informed by dialogue with practitioners and citizens.
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