Door-to-door collection: how it works and what are the advantages?

DOOR-TO-DOOR COLLECTION

La collection door to door It is a method of collecting urban waste carried out directly at citizens' homes, with methods that vary slightly from municipality to municipality.

A type of rubbish collection urban which brings with it countless advantages, starting from the increase in the number of recycled materials (75-80 percent).

And yet: Door-to-door separate waste collection allows all citizens to be made responsible for the correct disposal of different materials and allows the elimination of traditional bins from the streets, resulting in a significant improvement in urban design.

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HOW IT WORKS

To make sure that the collection door to door To ensure that it is carried out correctly, the contribution of citizens who must correctly separate the different materials is essential.

Daily collection takes place based on the calendar prepared by the individual municipalities: Citizens are provided with bags for collecting glass, plastic, paper, and bags, which must then be left outside their homes on the days and at the established times.

For example, Monday is the designated day for paper collection, Tuesday for organic waste collection, and so on. The same applies to commercial businesses, which, however, due to specific needs, can agree on specific waste disposal methods, always according to a pre-established schedule.

Before placing the bags of waste outside, Always check that they are well closed so that the materials do not disperse into the environment, especially in windy conditions. Also check that the materials are disposed of correctly: otherwise, the operator may not collect the bag.

Some municipalities also impose fines. Also, check the hours you can put your recycling bags out of your home: for reasons of urban decorum, in many municipalities this isn't allowed before 10:00 PM. For commercial activities, however, the display of the bags can take place at closing time.

For more specific information we recommend you Consult the website of your municipality where you will find all the information on how to proceed correctly..

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WHERE DOOR-TO-DOOR COLLECTION IS CARRIED OUT

If you do the door-to-door waste collection in small towns it can prove to be a fairly simple operation to carry out and decidedly virtuous, In cities, especially large ones, this type of waste collection can encounter some difficulties..

It can in fact become difficult to keep at home, especially if it is a small house or studio flat, organic waste bin or in any case that relating to other types of waste, awaiting the day established for home collection.

In any case, it is important to remember that the door-to-door waste collection service is first and foremost a system that aims to make citizens responsible for the quantities of waste produced every day.It is therefore important to learn to change your purchasing choices by trying to reduce the number of packages as much as possible For example, favoring the purchase of loose products not only for food but also for detergents.

At the moment, door-to-door waste collection in Italy is done…

ADVANTAGES

I advantages of separate waste collection there are many, including:

• It encourages recycling, promoting the process of transforming waste into new materials and different from the original ones.
• It guarantees a greater sustainability in the production cycle of materials
• Reduces the consumption of raw materials
• Reduces energy usage and of thegreenhouse gas emission.
• It turns out to be the best alternative to waste disposal waste in landfill.
• It boosts the country's economy.
• It allows you to use resources more efficiently.

DOOR-TO-DOOR COLLECTION: WHAT THE LAW REQUIRES

In Italy, the regulations on separate waste collection It originated in 1975, following the issuing of the note EEC Directive 75/442. This required Member States to take appropriate measures to promote the waste recovery and recycling to obtain secondary raw materials.

With the enactment of the subsequent law 475 of 1988, Italy explicitly imposed themandatory separate collection of solid urban waste. While it was in 2009 that theobligation for all municipalities to collect at least 35% of waste separately.

La door-to-door waste collection, also known as PaP, today it is regulated for individual municipalities and often remains in the experimental phase for a long time.

CHAOS DOOR-TO-DOOR COLLECTION

To each his own color, in no particular order. Yellow for packaging, Verde for the glass, brownish for the organic, White For paper and cardboard. But it can also be the other way around. The same goes for door-to-door collection times, or even for bin emptying. And the same goes for the times when garbage containers can be put out.

La separate waste collection in Italy It's a veritable Babel of colors, schedules, days, regulations, and calendars. Each municipality applies its own rules, a method that engages citizens, who should be facilitated rather than hindered, and is the foundation of the recycling and recovery economy. It also helps avoid the scandal of landfill disposal.

The chaos explodes especially during the summer, when millions of tourists—sometimes even uncivilized, but in this case simply victims of the Babel—don't really know how to properly dispose of their waste. And they go around asking, "Where should we put it?" And it's the Babel that, besides making cities and vacationers dirtier, contributes to lowering the percentage of separate waste collection in the regions.

Liguria's example for door-to-door collection

Just one example for everyone. In LiguriaIn Lerici and surrounding municipalities, organic waste is collected on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, plastic and metal packaging on Tuesdays, glass on Thursdays, and non-recyclable waste on Mondays. Good. One hundred kilometers away, in the same region, in Celle Ligure, everything changes. The hours, days, and waste display periods are completely different.

Go a few more kilometers, we are still in Liguria, and in Boissano, still in the Savona area, there is yet another calendar, with other days and other colors for each material.

A poor English tourist, on holiday in Liguria, contacted his family. He had been touring the area for a week and realized he couldn't recycle the same amount of waste during the same short trip. He had to research the rules each time, town by town.

Incredulous, he asked a simple question: "But wouldn't it be more logical and more useful for everyone to have the same regulation, at least at the regional level?" No one was able to give him an answer.

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