Separate collection. The new system takes off

03 December 2024

The new mixed waste collection system, launched on 18 November in Porto San Pancrazio, is gaining ground. The last controlled-access stations for wet and dry waste will be positioned today, but the door-to-door system for the other types of waste (paper and plastic) has already borne fruit, with the quantity of paper collected doubling and the amount of uncontaminated plastic increasing. The first figures show 1,580 kg of plastic/cans and 1,730 kg of paper in the first week, rising to 1,690 kg of plastic/cans and even 2,700 kg of paper in the second week.
While the quality of collection is therefore clearly improving, and three thousand users have already collected their cards, there is still a 17% of residents in the district, equivalent to 500 users, who have not yet obtained the card that is indispensable for correctly disposing of their waste in the so-called ‘smart’ bins, and from tonight those with free access will disappear from the scene for good.
Hence Amia's decision to extend by a week, until Saturday, the presence of the central unit at the Poggi area, in Via 28 Marzo, where cards and credentials can be collected. Then distribution will continue in the Solori offices. The card must be compulsorily collected if one does not want to incur the sanction provided for in the Municipality's regulations.
‘Porto San Pancrazio represents the first stage in the restart of the new collection system, which started in 2020 in the eastern part of Verona and will progressively affect the whole city. In the first months of 2025 we will be in the sixth district,’ points out Amia president Roberto Bechis. ‘We are satisfied with the first signs, since the data show a clear increase in separate waste collection and, consequently, a decrease in undifferentiated waste, which allows us to save on disposal costs and thus guarantee more services to citizens.
‘The invitation is to differentiate with the utmost care because even today 7% of those who arrive at the bins and are intercepted by our tutors are invited to go home to differentiate better.
Out of 1,069 verified deliveries, 922 were found to be regular while 75 were not regular,’ points out Amia services area manager Diego Testi.
‘Unfortunately, we have also identified people who are not among Solori's users, so they are not paying the waste tax. And it is a civic duty that we all have, so that everyone contributes to covering the cost of waste disposal’.
The tutors made available by the company to accompany citizens in this transition phase, in addition to helping them activate the card-activated app, also have a control function. Out of 440 citizens intercepted, 39 turned out to be ‘invisible’, untraceable in the Tari lists.


Read the full article in the Arena of 03.12.2024