The week of 8-13 May 2023 witnessed many activities around the world aimed at promoting composting, as part of this year's International Compost Awareness Week. Building on the experience of the projects capitalised in the framework of Med4Waste, the consortium of this ENI CBC Med funded project have been participating in raising awareness activities related to explaining and disseminating the potential positive impact of composting as an option for urban waste management in the Mediterranean region.

The coordinator of the project, the BETA Technology Centre of UVic-UCC in Spain, organised an educational talk in a rural school in L'Esquirol, Catalonia, in which some of its researchers showed their students the basics of the composting process and the potential positive effect of its use as a fertiliser in the soils of a region like the Mediterranean, where the amount of carbon in the soil can become a very important factor now and in the near future in the context of global change.

In addition to this activity, the BETA technology centre also organised a presentation session for the citizens of the community composting system to deal with 100% of the organic waste generated in the town of Las Masies de Roda, which after the implementation of the DECOST pilot project has already adopted the system as its own model. Both activities were complemented with a publication in the local press. 

In Jordan, EDAMA organised a roundtable on the composting landscape in Jordan, attended by experts and stakeholders from government, the private sector and civil society.

The roundtable featured speakers from the projects capitalised by Med4Waste, including Nabil Al-Kofhi, Mayor of Greater Irbid Municipality, who shared his impressions of the Med-InA project. Munir Al-Rousan, PhD from the Jordan University of Science and Technology, spoke about the DECOST project, while Ahmed Al-Nubani, climate change and sustainability expert, spoke about the SIRCLES project, also funded by the ENI CBC Med programme. In addition, Wael Mehyar, President of the Organic Fertiliser Association for Ecosystems, gave his perspective on the use of compost in agriculture.