get from a leaflet prepared for the question ReteLilliput waste. It 's a quick summary of the facts that led to this perennial crisis and what can be done to uscirne.Martedí January 15, at 18, at the headquarters of Mani Tese is riunionedel Waste Committee
Franc Liberto
Why the waste problem in Campania
and what you should do to solve
Why is there a problem waste in Campania.
- While in many parts of the collection began in the 70 and 80 from us is the part no mid-90s and, in all `today is below 10% (the law states that in 2003 you had to recycle at least 35%, and some Italian regions are now at 40-50%);
- the amount of waste produced has grown steadily: in 1998 was 424 kg per inhabitant per year today is 485 kg (source: APAT);
- the right of the Regional Council, chaired by Rastrelli, launched in 1997 a plan to plant 7 CDR (plants that separating the burnable waste from the non-burnable) and two huge incinerators capable of burning all the garbage produced in Campania, thus disregarding the directions of the national law indicates you need to give priority to waste reduction, separate collection, recovery, recycling, composting,
- the Regional Council, chaired by Losco, entrusted the construction of incinerators and RDF facilities to FIBE (FIAT group), preferring its proposal because the cost was more vantage and schedules, short (1 year), even if the incinerator was designed for old-style and particularly polluting and national law requires that first we must choose the less polluting technology;
- Bassolino used the immense financial resources to give to Campania build seven plants CDR and the Acerra incinerator to pay handsomely for advice and hire hundreds of workers for recycling do not let it go and then not build composting plants where processing of organic waste composting;
- the citizens of Acerra tried to block the construction of the incinerator, being old-fashioned and 5 times larger than normal incineration, they are not reassured the protection of their health;
- CDR plants, operated, instead of producing RDF (refuse derived fuel) and fos (stabilized organic fraction) produced by some million eco-bales, which are not burnable waste because they contain putrescible, the other thousands of tons of organic material is not stabilized, and then rot, too. This material has gone thus accumulating at the plants and storage sites "provisional";
- the judiciary has opened investigations into this whole situation by placing several times in the seizure of the site and facilities cdr Acerra, thus every time the accumulation of waste on the street. On the basis of such investigation has had to modify the design of the Acerra incinerator to try to make it less polluting and comply with European standards;
- Commissioners extraordinary government succeeded in Bassolino. to resolve the emergency, have opened up old landfills (often seized by the judiciary because it contained toxic waste dumped illegally by the mafia), doing nothing to solve the root problem. Opening declared permanently closed landfills or to extend the closing dates set did the people lose confidence in the promises of the state;
- in this situation of disintegration, the Camorra could continue to illegally dispose of toxic and hazardous waste from all over Italy and in landfills that were supposed to contain only non-toxic waste, or fly tipping, this also helped in the consolidated text of environmental laws passed by the Berlusconi government that downgrading a series of crimes, has hampered the activities of the judiciary (interception telephone etc...)
What should be done to solve the problem waste?
- reduce waste production with national and regional rules that penalize excess packaging, disposable products, disposable materials is difficult;
- set up an effective system of recycling not only paper, plastic and glass, but especially in the wet fraction (ie the putrescible) and toxic waste (paints, solvents, etc.).. The collection is a prerequisite not only recycling, but also the ability to dispose of waste in incinerators or landfills, because the fraction is not damp and dangerous burnable scrapped. Also, more complete and selective waste collection and more became a resource that can make money and thus reduce the tax on waste. This system should include controls, fines and incentives, and must be clearly explained to the population. The most convenient is a mixed system with curbside collection and "ecological islands"
- build a sufficient number of composting facilities where the wet fraction transformed into fertilizer (Campania it is almost free, while other regions have dozens and dozens - eg Lombardy has 79) (source: Special Commissioner for Waste: Waste Plan 2007; APAT: Waste Report 2006)
- provide some dumps from scratch in appropriate places (eg, those reported by geologists of 'University of Naples) to overcome the emergency benefit without the racket and have the time to transform the current facilities in cdr efficient mechanical biological treatment plants (which produce the organic fraction that is stable, inert materials to be recycled and used to rehabilitate quarries or produce building materials).
The incinerators are not the solution because they can not burn the wet fraction of waste (40%) or the inert (sand, metals, glass, etc.. Which amounts to 10-15%) and is not fitting that burning paper and plastics, recycling of which is much cleaner and more convenient in terms of energy savings (plastic recycling saves twice as much energy which is obtained by burning) and also from the economic point of view. Indeed, the cost of electricity is higher than that produced by oil, natural gas, wind, hydro and solar concentration (source: ANEA) and convenience is only entrepreneurs who can pocket even € 55 for each ton burned, because Italian law considers the incineration of waste to support a renewable energy economically,
They should be reminded that incinerators produce ash and sludge (equal to nearly 30% by weight of waste burned) then disposed of in landfills and therefore not have a system to eliminate the use of landfills.
The strategy we have shown is perfectly in line with European directives and with what is being done in many European countries: Austria 64% of waste is recycled, 23% goes to landfill and only 13% is burned, and in Germany 71% is recycled, 14% goes to landfill and 15% is incinerated (source: European Topic Centre on Resource and Waste Management 2005).
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