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23 June 2016 Italian municipalities 'free' of waste increase: 525 localities, for a population of nearly 3 million people.
At the top is northern Italy with 413 municipalities (79% of the total), followed by the south with 87 and the center with 25. The best regions are in order: Veneto with 35% of the 'waste free' municipalities, Friuli Venezia Giulia (29%), Trentino-Alto Adige (17%) and Campania (9%);
all above the national average which is 7%.
Valle d'Aosta, Umbria, Puglia and Sicily are missing.
These are some of the main data of the Legambiente 2016 'Municipalities Recycling' report presented in Rome as part of the last day of the 'Waste Forum', where the 'waste free' Municipalities were awarded.
In particular, Veneto is distinguished by 204 'waste-free' municipalities, followed by Lombardy with 76 municipalities (thanks above all to the province of Mantua which represents 5% of the total of Lombard municipalities);
then Friuli-Venezia Giulia with 63 Municipalities, Trentino Alto Adige with 56 and Campania with 50 Municipalities.
Piedmont loses some position compared to last year.
Among the consortium management that Legambiente considers to be among the most effective: it leads the ranking of the free Waste Consortia above 100,000 inhabitants, and is the Priula (Tv) basin council, where 556,000 inhabitants make up almost 83% of recycling and just over 50 kg per inhabitant per year of dry residue.
Amnu, in the province of Trento, stands out among those under 100,000 inhabitants.
This year Legambiente introduced new criteria for the establishment of the ranking: in addition to respecting the legal objective of 65% of differentiated, there must also be quality and prevention policies;
for this reason, among the 'Recycling Municipalities' there are only the Municipalities in which citizens have produced less than 75 kg of dry unsorted waste.
The report tells of virtuous examples.
Among these: like Emilia Romagna with the penalty and reward system of the new regional law, the city of Parma at the forefront of punctual pricing like Treviso and the experience of door-to-door collection in Catanzaro;
the northern capitals (Belluno and Pordenone), medium-small towns such as Empoli (50,000 inhabitants), Conegliano (Tv) and Castelfranco Veneto (35,000 inhabitants);
then Baronissi (Sa), Cassano Magnago (Va), Suzzara (Mn), Castelfidardo (An), Monsummano Terme (Pt), Fucecchio (Fi), Certaldo (Fi), Castelfiorentino (Fi), Pergine Valsugana (Tn), Feltre (Bl), Vittorio Veneto (Tv), Paese (Tv), Montebelluna (Tv), Oderzo (Tv), Este (Pd).
'' Now - observes the president of Legambiente, Rossella Muroni - the real bet is to make the whole of Italy, in the next 3 years, 'Waste free' through the obligation of punctual pricing, the stop to new incinerators, the 'increased landfill costs and the construction of new recycling plants''.