TRENT. Never before has there been so much separate waste collection in Trento and yet the problems linked to waste disposal remain and are difficult to resolve. In April the separate waste collection in the municipality of Trento exceeded well above the threshold of 85 percent, reaching 85.58 percent to be precise. It’s about a record for the city, given that never before had such a high percentage been reached. But certain data demonstrate that it is not through separate waste collection that the waste problem is solved, given that Italy is the country in Europe which does the greatest amount of separate waste collection and yet it cannot really be said that it is the ‘cleanest’ country with the most virtuous waste management.
The report is from a few months ago Greenitaly, developed by the Symbola Foundation, Unioncamere and Centro Studi Tagliacarne which explained how during 2022, our country achieved an important milestone: the recycling of 83.4% of all waste, both urban and special. An exceptional result which exceeds the European average by more than 30 points, which stands at 52.6%. Italy stands out from other large European countries such as France, Germany and Spain, stopped at a much lower recycling rate, respectively equal to 64.4%, 70% and 59.8%. The average separate waste collection in these first months of 2024 (January-April) in Trento is at84.28 percentAlmost one more point compared to that of last year, which stood at 83.55 percent.
On the subject of waste there is another good news that comes from the fourteenth Report of the national observatory Federconsumatori. They are analyzed in the investigation the amounts of the 2023 waste tariff in the twenty Italian municipalities, regional capitals. The comparison assigns to Trento the title of city with the lowest waste tariff in the two typologies considered: the typical family with three members living in a 100 square meter apartment (168.35 euros per year) and the mononuclear family in an apartment of 60 square meters (75.29 euros per year)figures significantly lower than cities such as Genoa (501.17 euros, approximately three times more than Trento for the 100 square meter type) or Naples (241 euros, more than three times more than Trento for the 60 square meter type).
The report explains: “The average annual expense that the typical family made up of 3 members in a 100 m2 apartment incurs for the payment of the waste tax in 2023based on the sample represented by the 20 regional capital municipalities, was 334.24 euros per year, compared to 315.03 euros in 2020 (with a variation of +9%). In Trento, a city where the recorded expenditure is the lowest in Italy, the typical family (three members, 100 m2 apartment) spends on average 168.35 euros, followed in order by Potenza with 231.06 euros and Catanzaro with 268.54 EURwhile those with the highest average expenditure are Genoa with 501.17 euros, Naples with 491.45 euros and Cagliari with 410.40 euros.
Always regarding the type of family of three people in a house of 100 m2, the average in Northern Italy stands at 319.14 euros, that of Central Italy at 339.20 euros and that of Southern Italy and the Islands is 346.88 euros. For the single-family family in a 60 m2 apartment, the highest expense is incurred in Naples with 241.01 euros, followed by Cagliari with 202.81 euros and Perugia with 192.25 euros; the lowest one, however, is found at Trento with 75.29 eurosfollowed by Potenza with 85.16 euros and Trieste with 119.21 euros”.
