Waste sorting slowly in San Marino. The appeal of the Secretariat to the Territory: “Only 10% of the workforce recycled”
Despite the efforts and commitments made at the Italian and international level, the Republic of San Marino continues to struggle with the separate collection of waste.
According to the Aass data updated to 30 June 2021, the Titan differentiates less than 50% of municipal waste. To be precise, the 47.2%. With a big difference between the areas where there is collection door to door (the Castles of Faetano, Montegiardino, Fiorentino, Acquaviva, Chiesanuova, San Marino City) and the others where there are road bins. In the former, in fact, the percentage of differentiated waste is at 70.2%.
Among other things, that of 70% is the minimum threshold established by the agreement between San Marino and Emilia Romagna for the disposal of San Marino waste in the region.
In light of the results, at the end of the last legislature the AASS had arranged for the door-to-door extension also to the most populous castles, therefore Domagnano, Borgo Maggiore and Serravalle. Calls for bids had been prepared and the necessary money allocated, but with the new government there was an abrupt stop. In August 2020, the Commission advising Territory with a majority dictated the new strategy: via door to door and in its place intelligent ecological islands.
In the meantime, the government has agreements to export San Marino waste to the Marche and Lombardy, given the impossibility of respecting the agreement with Emilia Romagna.
In the course of 2021 a new change of direction has arrived from politics: the waste collection strategy will be established after a series of discussions with citizens and associations.
However, starting from a well-defined will: to propose collect everything, treat and recycle the waste produced in the waste area, which alone represents 30% -35% of the total waste of the San Marino citizens. For this reason, a new square is being built in San Giovanni to carry out the treatment.
But even here there is still a long way to go. In fact, currently only 10% of the wet product is intercepted and recycled.
To write it is the State Secretariat for the Territory in a note in which, disconsolate, she explains that “on the waste collection front our country still has great shortages and low sensitivity. Each year only one citizen of this Republic produce, on average, 150 kg of organic waste but it only recycles a tenth of it. We are far from the objectives set by the European package for the Circular Economy, which sets the recycling rate of municipal waste at 65% by 2035 ″.
“The organic waste collected – writes the Secretariat – treated in the composting plant of San Giovanni, will become organic fertilizer to be used in one’s own gardens or gardens, and made available free of charge to those who request it”.
Hence the appeal to the people of San Marino: “In these festivities of lunches and gifts, a simple gesture can serve to improve the environment and the quality of life”.
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