The climate and energy plan aims to position Bodø as a smart, green, forward-looking, and sustainable society. It sets goals, including a 70% reduction in direct greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 (compared to 2009 levels) and a 25% reduction in energy consumption in municipal buildings by 2025. Key features include a comprehensive approach covering energy consumption, waste management, transportation, and building infrastructure, with a priority on innovative and sustainable solutions to reduce the environmental footprint. The plan emphasizes increasing the recycling rate to 70% by 2030, reducing overall waste volumes, promoting energy-efficient buildings, encouraging zero-emission vehicles, and improving public transportation. It focuses on leveraging systems for efficient waste management, integrating modern technologies, and engaging stakeholders through public awareness and education initiatives.

Territorial strategy for the development of the islands of Dubrovnik-Neretva County is a strategic document of the County that represents the main prerequisite for the implementation of the Integrated Territorial Programme 2021-2027 on the islands of Dubrovnik-Neretva County.Challenges and needs for the improvement of the quality of life in general are detailly described in this document and protection of nature and environment is a part of it. The key development needs of the islands are derived from insufficient monitoring and prevention systems related to risks of climate change and negative consequences in the island area due to human activity. This documents highlights waste management as one of the most important challenges the islands are facing. The costs of collecting, recycling and disposal of waste from the island are higher than on mainland. Key development needs in the area of waste management on the islands are the inclusion of the islands in a complete waste management system of the County, remediation and closure of official waste disposal sites and remediating illegal landfills, increasing the separate collection of municipal waste and strengthening the population’s awareness of the importance of circular economy. Project activities are all linked to the Operation 1 of this document "Sustainable management, preservation and use of island space", Measure 1 "Improving the protection and management of natural resources and the environment on the islands".

The Resources and Waste Management Plan of Brussels is the plan which legally implements the regional waste policy. The application period is from to 2018 until the next plan, foreseen in 2026. The plan addresses the issue of sober and responsible consumption upstream, as well as traditional waste management downstream, including new practices of a collaborative economy and sharing at intermediate levels. The general objectives of the RWMP are threefold: (1) anchoring a transformation to more sustainable and circular consumption practices; (2) maximising the preservation and recovery of materials, if possible locally and (3) training the supply side of the economy to become circular. The RWMP is divided into seven strategic objectives. The strategic objectives address specific target audiences: households, schools, business, construction activity, innovators in new business models and waste operators. A deep analysis is foreseen in the RWMP in order to understand citizens waste behaviors (needs, motivations, levers to sort, psycho-sociological brakes,…) in order to 1) adapt and target our communication and sensibilisation campaigns 2) program the development of infrastructures (buried containers, proximity civic amenity sites, …) adapted to their needs. Non-residential sorting is also addressed in the RWMP, mainly through sustainable event measures, sorting in parks, public and commercial areas.

The Waste Area Plan, a comprehensive planning and programming tool for the integrated waste cycle, implements the Regional Waste Management Plan at the provincial level. It aims to reduce municipal waste production through awareness initiatives, increase separate waste collection percentages, and improve the quality of collected material for effective recycling. The plan seeks to overcome management fragmentation, achieve economic efficiency, and implement user-identifiable collection methods.
The plan enhances virtuous experiences within municipalities, addresses plant needs, and evaluates cost-effective solutions for ATO autonomy, considering synergies with neighboring ATOs. It also promotes virtuous behaviors through citizen tariffs and adopts transparent communication and participation models for decision-making and management processes, involving all stakeholders. Functional models for monitoring the Operator's activities are identified.
Annual monitoring, as per the Regional Plan, verifies the implementation of planning, measures deviations from objectives, and updates strategies. The Economic and Financial Plan identifies resources for urban hygiene services and the promotion of good practices, such as waste reduction and communication actions. These resources are used by the ATA, Service Operator, or assigned to municipalities, associations, and schools through specific projects and tenders.

Novo mesto adopted the Sustainable Urban Development Strategy for the period up to 2030 with the aim of creating and determining the strategic directions of the city's development. The direction of the Municipality of Novo mesto is to achieve balanced social welfare and the freedom of the individual in the realization of spatial needs, so that they will not be jeopardized for the future generations. Spatial development of the municipality must, by judicious utilization of spatial potentials, development of regional specialties, preservation of landscape diversity and natural qualities with taking into account natural limitations and taking into account the transience of space to contribute to the strengthening of the role regional center of national importance. Measures and activities are grouped in four main areas: Smart, Green, Connected and Inclusive, where Green is also addressing the questions of development waste and resources management. Sustainable Urban Development Strategy clearly identifies waste management as one of the key critical areas of future development, citing analysis that in past 20 years, the state of the environment in Novo mesto significantly improved due to important investments in the industrial sector, which already meets strict European requirements.