On LaStampa we learn that the Piedmont Region councilor for social policies and socio-health integration, Maurizio Marrone, thanks to a regional reorganization maneuver, effectively cancels the free trade market.
Marrone abolished any regulatory facilitation, establishing that the same rules already in force for other second-hand or antique markets apply to free trade. In particular, operators will be able to set up their workstation for a maximum of 18 days a year, obtaining a special card from the Municipality and presenting a list of the goods they wish to put up for sale. These goods must be of modest value, belonging to the non-food product sector and falling within the operator’s personal sphere, be objects collected or created through one’s own creative ability.
Now the unknown remains about the future of “Barattolo”, the Free Trade area in via Carcano in Turin, a market which, every Saturday and Sunday, brings together four hundred operators who offer their goods, exclusively used, to thousands of citizens looking for clothes, objects, small furnishings, at a low price, who want to rediscover the memory of their past in a book, in a print, in a lamp.
The market in via Carcano performs both a social and environmental function, in fact, in the first case it represents a source of income for people in difficulty who can put objects on sale without having a street vendor license. From an environmental point of view, however, it encourages reuse and gives a second life to objects that would perhaps have ended up in landfill. Furthermore, everything that remains unsold is placed in the recycling bins.
Separate waste collection which, as Cristina Grosso of ViviBalon explains, allows us to recover an average of:
- Textile waste: from 3 to 5 quintals
- Paper: 3.5 quintals
- Glass: 1.5 quintals
- Undifferentiated: 6,800 kilograms
Furthermore, thanks to the via Carcano market, around 2,000 tonnes of objects are saved from landfill every year.
As he points out Big, the Municipality of Turin is committed for another two years to a very tight tender with the ViviBalon Association for the “Barattolo” project. Furthermore, the association does not receive any type of contribution or financing but, thanks to the exhibitor’s payment for occupying the stall, it pays the operators, the TARI and the audience.
Commenting on the news, Alessandro Stillopresident of the UN Network, returning from Buenos Aires for theInternational Alliance of Waste Pickersunderlined that: “It is absurd how in a historical moment an alliance of thirty countries is being formed to promote the reuse and recycling of waste, which has a social and environmental value, in Turin a historic market is being attached which allows many people to survive and at the same time saves a lot of waste from landfill.”
