With a collection education and awareness project differentiated focused on kids and a new calendar for collecting wasteas well as with a more “severe” attitude, Theorem try to give a swerve to the urban hygiene service in the city, which he has been managing since last October. A service that, for one reason or another, never took off, practically always remaining below 40 percent waste separation.
The presentation
The presentation was held yesterday morning in the Verdi theatre, in the presence of the mayor Giuseppe Marchionnaof the president of Teorema Claudio Nardecchia and the technical director Gianni Milan. The mayor himself explained the meaning of the awareness project aimed at younger people, which will start in September this year. «The idea of subscribing to a Pact for the circular economy it was immediately welcomed and shared – underlined the mayor – by the students and teachers, who signed it with me symbolically on behalf of the entire city and the world of school. But now we wait a great response from the whole city so that together we can truly be protagonists of change for the improvement of the environment and the liveability of the city. Thanks to the support of the boys and girls of Toasts it will be possible pass on to families and acquaintances that this behavior will also contribute to obtaining an economic benefit for the reduction of the Tari”.
The new calendar
In these days, the company says, the first posters of the communication campaign will appear on the city streets with which citizens will be informed both of the change in the waste collection calendar and of the collection of the new tubs, things that will happen in starting from June 17th. The objective, as mentioned, is to optimize collections, the quality of deliveries and the percentages of separate waste collection. In fact, only in February the figure barely exceeded 40 percent (40.39) while in March it dropped to 38.31 and in April to 38.92. The annual average, for the moment, is 39.2 percent. The new calendar for domestic users provides three days of waste collection, two of the undifferentiated and one each for paper, plastic and glass. For non-domestic users, however, the waste will be collected every day, at least during the summer season. While for undifferentiated, glass, plastic and paper there will be two days each. Furthermore, the updating of the fleet of vehicles is about to be completed, while the seven former temporary workers left without work following the departure of the last manager, Ecotecnica, should soon also enter service.
Rigor and severity
Furthermore, to try to further improve the separation percentages, the company announces a more rigorous and severe attitude in harvestingsuggesting the possibility of providing sanctions against those who do not differentiate correctly. Not only. The mayor, in fact, also hypothesized the possibility of forming and then using a sort of “environmental guards”, which they should also have the power to sanction citizens who do not respect the rules. Also from 17 June, the distribution of the new tubs will start, which will be combined with the individual user: gray for undifferentiated waste and blue for paper. There are three collection points planned: in via Antonio Ligabue 2 in Sant’Elia, in via Andrea Bafile 48 at Casale and in via San Lorenzo da Brindisi 32 in the centre.
Raising awareness among young people
Finally, the mayor launched the initiative Pact for the circular economy for the city of Brindisi: a collective commitment of public and private entities, associations, cooperatives, commercial activities, schools, universities, foundations, individual citizens and all entities operating or in any way involved in circular economy issues. The ambition is to create a city network of permanent collaboration who is committed to designing and supporting shared projects, ideas and activities that accelerate the transition towards a linear to circular city economy. An initiative that is part of the activities within the scope of the candidacy for Italian capital of culture.
