ISPRA publishes the Municipal Waste Report 2020 edition

Recycling waste: +3.1 percentage points in one year. The South exceeds 50%, Treviso the most virtuous city with 86.9%. Less disposal in landfills but not in the Center (+ 19.4%). Management: still far from the new European targets.

The Edition 2020 of the Municipal Waste Report provides data (reference year 2019) concerning municipal waste generation, separate collection and management at national, regional and provincial level as well as data on import/export of municipal waste.
Furthermore, data on packaging waste management, costs of the municipal waste management service and tariff scheme implementation in 2019 are reported.

Finally, the Report presents an up-to-date (year 2020) survey on the implementation of territorial waste management plans.

Municipal waste produced in Italy in 2019 amounted to about 30 million tons, a slight decrease compared to 2018 by 0.3% (-80 thousand tons). Increase only in northern Italy, with almost 14.4 million tons of waste, by 0.5% compared to 2018, while it is decreasing in the Center (-0.2%) with about 6.6 million tons and South (-1.5%) with 9.1 million tons.
Each Italian citizen, in a year, produced about 500 kilograms of waste.