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Qualità dell’ambiente urbano – XI Rapporto (2015)
ISPRA Stato dell’Ambiente 63/15 pagg. 402-426
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Abstract
Municipal waste generation represents one of the biggest Italian cities pressure
marker taking environmental and economical aspects into account.
The design choices evaluation realized by every single Administration office by means
of the performance achieved through different types of recycling, is extremely
interesting.
The biggest urban centers have generally larger per capita waste generation than the
national and the specific home territories average.
This is undoubtedly true if we consider that urban center waste generation is
necessarily related to tourism and commuting, having a consequent increase of the
so-called “floating population”.
Recycling carries out a top priority duty on the integrate waste management. On one
side it allows to reduce the amount of waste sent to disposal operation and, on the
other side, it positively influences the whole waste management system. Therefore it
allows the saving of raw materials by recycling and recovery.
Keywords
Total waste generation, Per capita waste generation, Separate collection, Product
type segmentation.