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Recycling in Italy

SUMMARY

PAPER RECYCLING PLASTIC RECYCLING GLASS RECYCLING

The Circle of Paper Recycling

Paper products, cardboard and card, when they are used, they should be recycled so they can be used again. How? It’s easy: Separate them from the trash and transport them to the separate collection of rubbish containers and follow the instructions from your community the instructions from your community.

To separate the collection of rubbish

The paper selection in platform

Paper, cardboard and card removed from the separation collection of rubbish dumpsters are transported in pulp-paper platforms. This is the first step of the recycling work. Here paper materials are cleaned, pressed and sent to the paper factories that can use them again factories that can use them again.

In a special factory paper comes to light

again…Here starts the real recycling process. It’s very easy: paper and other paper products are mushy; the mixing is cleaned again, spread in big sheets and finally they are dried and rolled in big spools of paper. So the paper products are totally recycling. So the paper products are totally recycling.

…and what can we do with these products?

These spools are carried to paper industries where they make packing and other cardboard things like shoeboxes.

Here sheets are cut, folded, stuck, coloured and printed to

have our daily products.

Do you know that...

...Almost the 90% of Italian newspapers is printed on recycled paper?

...almost the 90% of pasta boxes, shoeboxes and other products are realised with recycled cardboard?

...in Italy every paper products are made of recycled paper?

Plastic Recycling in Romentino

Some information about Romentino...

The law obliges the communities to sort and recycle garbage.

Romentino is one of the 37 municipalities who recycle and sort garbage

How to sort different garbage...

You put glass into blue basket or container.

You put plastic in a yellow bag and food into brown basket or container.

And you put paper in cardboard box.

All the things that can’t be recycled go in grey sacks.

Different days for different garbage

Monday: things you can’t recycle Wednesday: Organic materials and glass Thursday: paper Saturday: organic materials and plastic

Plastic Recycling

In the last few years Italy has become the first European country and the second one of the world that recycles most plastic.

For example, the way to reclycle plastic bottles is :

First of all, we have to clean the bottle

Then we have to press the air out of the bottle and clos it with the plug

At the end we have to put it into particular containers.

In some towns you can find containars along the street, in other towns everybody has different containers at home for different kinds of trash.

How to start at home...

The two ways to recycle plastic...

Manual sorting Automatic sorting

Manual sorting The simplest and least effective

way of manual sorting is the “negative sorting”. It means a conveyor belt where people pick up whatever is not a PET bottle just by visual recognition.

This way is ineffective because PET bottles are similar to other plastic bottles and people get bored and pay little attention to what they’re doing

There is also “positive sorting”, where people pick up all the plastic bottles and toss it on another conveyor going to the granulator. This way is much more accurate.

Automatic sorting

Automatic sorting uses X-rays and other kinds of rays.

The machine recognises different kinds of plastics, X-ray detectors can only scan and remove PVC.

The best way to guarantee a perfect separation is to combine X-ray detectors with other kinds of rays.

Glass recycling

The process of recycling

There are different steps in the recycling.

Process:

first of all you have to separate different materials;

then the glass is collected by lorries and brought to the recycling centre.

Why should we recycle?

There are three main reasons to recycle glass:

Glass recycling saves energy

Recycling glass helps us care for the environment

Recycling glass cuts waste

Italy-Sweden

In 1989 Italy recycled more than Sweden but now it’s the opposite situation.

Our recycling systems are similar

There’s a big difference: in Sweden glass is separated first from the metal and then devided into colors.

Our experience in Trecate

Waiting for the meeting

with the Municipality of Trecate we went to the

supermarket and asked the people

the following questions:

Do you recycle?

Yes90%

No10%

Yes

No

Why do you recycle?

obligatory40%

environment20%

to preserve the future30%

cleanliness10%

obligatory environment to preserve the future cleanliness

What do you recycle?

everything 50%

plastic15%

glass10%

paper15%

compost10%

everything

plastic

glass

paper

compost

Do you think that Italian recycling system is good?

To be improved30%

Yes30%

No40%

To be improved Yes No

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