Separate waste collection, Italy failed: only Cagliari exceeds target. Milan and Venice lose ground
Urban environment survey: in 2022, the target of 65% was reached in 62 towns. There are 45 with a lower or stable separate collection rate compared to the previous year
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Large cities in Italy are still lagging behind in differentiated waste collection. The verdict is written in black and white between the lines of the ISTAT report on the urban environment . The research, which refers to 2022, shows that among the metropolitan capitals only Cagliari exceeds the target of 75 per cent, set for 2012 by a provision of 2006 (Legislative Decree 152). The Sardinian capital has a 74.8% separate collection rate. In general, the share of separate waste collection in the metropolitan capitals stands at 46.6% (-18.1 percentage points compared to the other capitals). Compared to 2021, the share increases in all cities, exceptMilan (-0.4 p.p.) and Venice (-2.5 p.p.), which returns below the target, reached in 2020.
More progress in Catania and Messina
.The greatest progress is observed in Catania (+10.7 p.p.), which however only reaches 22% separate collection, and in Messina (+10.5 p.p.), which reaches 53.5%. The share of the resident population in municipalities that have reached the 65% separate collection target falls to 28.5% for all the capital municipalities and to 1.6% in the metropolitan capitals (58.4% in the others).
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North East Front Row
.The share of population living in capitals that have reached the target is highest in the North East (53.5%). This is followed by the North West (30.7%), the Islands (23.7%), the South (19.7%) and the Centre (18.0%).
Progress towards the 65% separate collection target .
Municipal waste, Istat again reminds us, represents a modest fraction of the total waste produced (17.9% in 2021), yet its management is particularly complex due to the heterogeneity of its composition and origin. High quality and quantity standards of separate collection favour the achievement of the targets for preparation for reuse and recycling set by the Circular Economy Package (Directive 2018/851/EU) and the Pnrr (mission 2 component 1). In 2022, at the national level, separate collection stands at 65.2% of municipal waste generated (+1.1 percentage points compared to 2021), but only 60.2% of the population resides in municipalities that have reached the 65% target.
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