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United for Smart Sustainable Cities
Enhancing Innovation and Participation
The project is already contributing to Maribor and will continue to do so in the future.
3 Conclusions
Lessons learned are most valuable if they are not repeated; the team learned from mistakes made in the
first PPP in the 1990s. The approach to project WCYCLE is undertaken with more care about long-term
solutions, whilst looking at dispersal risks in project development through different financing solutions
for different scales of operations.
Challenges ahead are many, one of them is legislation which needs to be adopted to the new
circumstances of a circular economy model; second, is that some technical solutions for tackling
processing problems ahead need to be developed. Note that some people will oppose the changes of a
business model.
Project WCYCLE is transferable to other cities with necessary adjustments to locally-specific situations;
one positive thing in the case of Maribor is that all utility companies are still publicly owned, which is in
implementation of this project very welcome; models can be scaled up and down according to the needs
of cities.
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