The City of Aalborg will facilitate the project from the unit Center for Green Transition together with the local waste disposal unit (WDU). Center for Green Transition (CfGT) comprise of climate planners responsible for the municipal Climate Action Plan and sociologists, anthropologists and communication experts responsible for citizen involvement and implementation of sustainable solutions.
Moreover, they have connected the municipal waste disposal unit with know how of fractions, sorting, recycling and waste logistics, relevant for the pilot use case conducted by the City of Aalborg within MoLo Hubs.
Key Challenge
Parcel lockers can bring a benefit to cities’ last mile logistics, but only when used efficiently. For this, user engagement and behavioural change is required.
Parcel Locker Locations
Realised Experiments
- Municipality of Aalborg has together with its partners opened new boxes for citizens to hand in their hazardous waste
- Smart parcel lockers can be used for distribution (e.g. parcel delivery) as well as waste management and recycling (etc. packaging material, old batteries)
- In addition to receiving and sending parcels, the boxes can be used to recycle used textiles, dispose of household hazardous waste, lend library books and other applications in the future
- Citizens of Aalborg can also collect bags for food waste and residual waste in the multifunctional boxes
- Citizens in rural areas of Aalborg Municipality can borrow books from the library and return them to a multifunctional box near their home
- At the Sustainability Festival Aalborg 2024, they tested whether a new deposit box could be a solution for using reusable packaging and avoiding disposable packaging
Check out the interactive "Locker Location Map" >>
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Latest News
Find out more about the pilot area in our latest Project News.
How to increase interest in and use of multi functional boxes for library books? How can the boxes be used in rural areas to increase service and avoid extra transport?
The MoloHubs project made its mark at this year’s POLIS Conference, held in Karlsruhe, Germany, on November 27-28, 2024. On the second day of the event, the project took the stage in the session “3F. Cities delivering change in urban logistics”, with a presentation by Martin Hansen from the City of Aalborg and Asbjørn Drechsler from Homerunner.
In just six months, Aalborg's innovative multifunctional boxes have had a major impact on waste management and convenience in the municipality.
At the beginning of October, Cities, partners, and experts from across Europe and beyond came together, to drive forward the Sustainable Transformation of our urban spaces.
Opening of the New Box Concept in Aalborg - big interest and positive feedback from citizens at the introduction of new packing boxes.
The first workshop for the pilot use case in Aalborg took place on January 11th. The purpose of the workshop was to share knowledge on where to place new parcel boxes and together find the specific locations in the city center for the boxes. There are many different considerations when boxes are to be placed in the urban area.