Integrated Urban Waste Management Model IUWMM

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Integrated Urban Waste Management Model (IUWMM)

• Best practices presentation 4
• Door to door collection

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Overview

• Best Practice Proposal n. 4
• Title Door to door collection
• Location Province of Treviso, Italy
• Date 2000-2006
• IUWMM Partner Proponent Deis University of
  Bologna
• Responsible Consorzio Intercomunale Priula

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Practice Summary

• Introduction
• Waste Problem Main Issues
• Solution approach
• Implementation
• Performance measures and results
• References

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1. Introduction

• The Consorzio Intercomunale Priula serves 22
  Municipalities (Comuni) in the central area of
  the territory of the Province of Treviso (NE
  Italy), with a population of 205.000
  inhabitants.
• These Comuni decided to use the same kind of
  management of urban waste by introducing the door
  to door collection for each kind of material.
• This decision came from the necessity to achieve
  the standards of Italian environmental policy.
• The Italian Decree 22/97 fixed ambitious
  objectives in terms of percentage of separated
  collection and introduced a new kind of tax,
  calculated on the basis of the actual production
  of waste.

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2. Main issues

• The goal of the door to door collection is to
  increase the percentage of separated collection
  of waste.
• In order to send waste to the recovery plants, it
  may be better to have an high quality of
  separated material because the process of
  recycling is more efficient, if the materials are
  better separated from each other. This kind of
  collection exploits the citizens capacity and
  responsibility in separation at home of the
  material.
• It is more easy to calculate the cost of the
  collection, that the citizens have to pay, thanks
  to the fact that each family has small container
  with particular volume and a particular frequency
  of emptying.

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3. Solution approach

• Each container has a trasponder. This mechanism
  allow to locate each bin in the territory (GIS
  technology) and associate a lot of information to
  each of them volume, weight, family, number of
  emptying per year, etc.
• This information helps to calculate the cost of
  the service.

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3. Solution approach

• This is an example of application of GIS with bin
  locations

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4. Implementation

• After the analysis of the territory, the
  Consorzio Priula decided to use the door to door
  system for collecting wastes.

It consists in using small container in which
each user put their waste.
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4. Implementation

• In order to make more aware the citizens about
  the management of their waste, they can control
  the data of their containers in the web site

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5. Performance measures and results

• URBAN VISIONS AND TERRITORIAL CHARATTERISTICS In
  order to apply the model of the door to door
  collection the Consorzio made an analysis of the
  territory taking into account population,
  density, tourism, land use, the richness
• TECHNOLOGY AVAILABLE The use of transponder
  applied on each container, in order to indirectly
  calculate the quantity of waste produced. The use
  of GIS in order to recognize and locate each
  container in the territory.

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5. Performance measures and results

• FINANCIAL APPROCHES AND MEASURES Application of
  the tariff in order to support the cost of the
  phases of management.
• CITIZENS VALUES AND PARTECIPATORY HABITS
  REGARDING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND WASTE
  TREATMENT The Consorzio opened 22
  information-window, one for each Comune,
  published a newspaper and enclosed a lot of
  information in the bill. It also organized
  meetings in each commune and published
  informative material also in English, French and
  Chinese in order to make aware foreign people in
  separated collection. In 2003 the percentage of
  separated collection was 67,88 (the highest in
  Italy).

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6. References

• www.consorziopriula.it
• http//www.earthscan.co.uk/news/printablearticle
• http//www.southwark.gov.uk/YourServices/environme
  nt/RecyclingPages/doortodoor
• http//www.lewes.gov.uk
• http//europa.eu.int/comm/environment/waste/pdf/se
  c_2005_404.pdf
• http//www.redbridge.gov.uk/housing/doortodoor.cfm