Decentralized Community Composting: Past, Present and Future Aspects of Italy
| Autor: | Cecilia Bruni, Salvatore Masi, Giulia Cipolletta, Joan Colón, Çağrı Akyol, Donatella Caniani, Francesco Fatone, Anna Laura Eusebi |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Municipal solid waste
Process (engineering) 020209 energy Geography Planning and Development TJ807-830 Legislation Context (language use) 02 engineering and technology 010501 environmental sciences Management Monitoring Policy and Law recycling TD194-195 01 natural sciences Renewable energy sources organic waste management 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering GE1-350 Environmental planning 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Resource recovery Environmental effects of industries and plants Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment Circular economy Legislature municipal solid waste Environmental sciences Urban waste biofertilizer Business community composting decentralized composting |
| Zdroj: | Sustainability, Vol 12, Iss 3319, p 3319 (2020) |
| ISSN: | 2071-1050 |
| Popis: | Italy is among the top biowaste-generating countries in Europe, and has a well-structured waste management framework with quite a number of centralized composting facilities. In recent years, there has also been huge interest from local communities in decentralized composting. Although decentralized community composting is common in some countries, there is still a lack of information on the operative environment together with its potential logistical, environmental, economic, and social impacts. Considering the national Italian legislation on community composting as well as successfully implemented projects at EU level, Italy can set a model especially for Mediterranean countries that intend to build decentralized composting programs. Therefore, in the context of this review paper, a brief overview of the composting process was presented together with main applications in centralized and especially in decentralized composting, while the main focus was kept on the operative and legislative information gathered from Italian community composting. There is a huge difference in the number of composting plants between the regions, and the lack of centralized facilities in the central and southern regions can be supported by decentralized solutions. Decentralizing waste treatment facilities and thus creating local solutions to urban waste management strategies will help to achieve the resource recovery and valorization targets in line with the circular economy. |
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