The 139 Municipalities with separate waste collection equal to or greater than 65% will be entitled, starting from July, to tax relief for the disposal of the residual fraction to landfill, divided into result bands, with savings from 30% to 70% on the amount basic. The overall percentage of 2023 separate waste collection in the Ligurian territory is equal to 59.35%, constantly increasing compared to 57.64% of the previous year, 55.71% in 2021, 53.46% in 2020, with an increase 21 percentage points more than the 38.63% of 2015.
At a provincial level, the Spezzino maintains its lead with separate waste collection further rising to 76.21% followed by the Savona area with 63.05%, a figure substantially stable compared to the previous year. This is followed, with an increase of two percentage points compared to 2022, by the province of Imperia which reaches 57.12% and the Metropolitan City of Genoa, which reaches 53.84%: the result of the Municipality of Genoa which however grew significantly up to 47.02%, compared to 43.46% of the previous year. Excluding the Municipality of Genoa, Liguria would exceed the target of 65% (65.94%), while the rest of the Metropolitan City would already be at 68.14%. The municipalities with a percentage of separate waste collection above 80% rise from 16 to 18: Riccò del Golfo (also leader for 2023 with 89.85%)Pieve Ligure (86%), Vendone (84.58%), Rialto (83.68%), Mignanego (82.810%), Sant’Olcese (82.36%), Ortovero (82.32%), Luni (82.31%), Cairo Montenotte (82.06%), Castelnuovo Magra (81.55%), La Spezia (81.37%), Leivi (81.35%), Framura (81.29%), Vessalico (81.08%), Villanova d’Albenga (80.75%), Carrodano (80.70%), Ceranesi (80.62%) and Serra Riccò (80.36%). Among the municipalities with over 15 thousand inhabitants, 65% of separate waste collection has been exceeded municipality of La Spezia (81.37%) followed by Albenga (75.04%), Sestri Levante (73.20%), Imperia (68.78%), Chiavari (68.52%) and Sarzana (65.54%). Slight decline for Rapallo and Sanremo, falling respectively to 62.63% and 58.81%, while, although improving, Genoa (47.02%), Savona (43.76%) and Ventimiglia (28.40%) remain at the bottom %).
“The result achieved by the provincial territory of La Spezia is the result of important work carried out in recent years by the Province in synergy with the local municipalities, implementing a series of specific policies that increasingly guarantee a service to citizens, building programs with the mayors that respect the needs of individual municipalities without new burdens for users. – comments the president Pierluigi Peracchini – We achieved this goal by limiting bill increases well below the national average. This year, in fact, after years of bound tariffs during the Covid emergency, the costs estimated by the national agency Arera took into account an increase of over 13% due to inflation, but we managed to reorganize the activity guaranteeing that the increases were below 6%, without losing any service provided. This is precisely the role that the Province of La Spezia, through its territorial scope on waste, carries out by working directly with each Municipality.
The activation of new collection centers for bulky waste, timely separate waste collection in smaller villages and new information campaigns for citizens are all the projects that have brought in regional funds of over €500,000 during the year, and are the result of this programmatic collaboration with local administrations”.
The total production of urban waste is rising again, albeit very slightly, reaching a total of 804,972 tonnes compared to the 803,108 tonnes of the previous year. As regards the residual undifferentiated fraction alone, the municipalities that have a per capita of less than 100 kg/inhabitant per year drop to 53, compared to 60 in the previous year. Of these there are 8 that do not even reach 60 kilos per inhabitant per year: the most virtuous is Ricco del Golfo, with only 40 kg/inhabitant per year of unsorted waste to dispose of, which has displaced Vendone which still follows at 44 kg / inhabitant year.
The resolution also establishes the economic contribution to be paid by September to be paid by the 63 Municipalities in which an excess of undifferentiated waste was found compared to the pre-established targets: the overall contributions drop from around 425 thousand euros to just over 367 thousand euros (-13.5 %).
Most of the contribution to be paid is due by the Municipality of Genoa (251,948.98 euros compared to 303,710.81 euros in 2022). Followed by the Municipalities of Savona (33,139.98 euros compared to 35,121.89 euros on a 2021 basis) and Ventimiglia (26,780.34 compared to 29,764.68). Then there are only 11 other municipalities required to pay more than 1,000 euros, while another 49 municipalities will have to pay amounts lower than 1,000 euros.
