Kitchen waste
 

Do you have collections for kitchen waste as in the UK or do you have to take it and the recycling to a tip?

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Depends where you live how, but yes Italy has bin men for rubbish collection.

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HH,

here in Rome the Council have issued us with a bucket for food waste and 4 bags in which we have to to separate tins/plastic, metal, glass and paper. Outside in the road are skips for food waste; tins/plastic; paper; glass;metal and another one for non-recycleables.

This I stress is the Rome City solution and other councils will do it differently.

Oh and welcome to the forum

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We have a free composter bin provided by the council down the garden, and take all our kitchen waste there. Others without gardens have a council isssued plastic bucket and biodegradable plastic bags. These are collected every Sunday/Tueday and Thursday. We have a blue bucket for glass, collected evry Tuesday, a purple bag for plastic/aluminium etc collected every Wenesday, and a big paper bag for paper collected every Thursday. General waste goes in a black bag collected every Monday/Friday. We are a small village on a mountain top in rural Southern Italy. One thing that does work well.

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It sounds like you are unfamiliar with the "three bin" rubbish collection service that is now used across most of the UK, which appears to be what the OP is referring to. There is one bin for non-recyclable rubbish that goes to the landfill, one for recyclable glass, plastics, metal, and paper, and then a small bin for all food waste including vegetable waste, meat scraps, and baked/cooked food.

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ulaski;11585102]It sounds like you are unfamiliar with the "three bin" rubbish collection service that is now used across most of the UK, which appears to be what the OP is referring to. There is one bin for non-recyclable rubbish that goes to the landfill, one for recyclable glass, plastics, metal, and paper, and then a small bin for all food waste including vegetable waste, meat scraps, and baked/cooked food.[/QUOTE]

Three bins! Amateurs! :rofl:! *runs out to check*. We have 6/7 communal bins for our small street. Paper, plastic, glass, kitchen waste & non-recyclable. All emptied every day. Plus 2 clothing banks emptied weekly. Large objects need to be booked for collection in the evenings. Corks, light bulbs, batteries, small electrical goods can be taken to the 'ecomobile' at the local market or you can take them to the dump. Garden waste, if not composted is collected when needed at an extra cost. Yearly charge of around 250€.

In Turin we have communal bins (some underground) except for papers. Papers are collected at the building door weekly. And household waste, collected 2/3 times a week. Again, at the building door.

We are in northern Italy. Rubbish collection, cost etc varies hugely from region to region. And even town to town.

Forgot. Medicines. Back to the chemist.

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That seems surprisingly complex, inefficient, and labour intensive. I would never have expected that in Italy! :lol:

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OK Sardinia Sud,

All with door to door bin lorry collection.

Mon. Food
Tues. Non recyclable
Wed. Food & Plastic (2 pick ups)
Thurs. Paper
Fri. Non recyclable & Bottles and cans (2 pick ups)
Sat. Food
Sun. Church.

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Is "church" recycled, composted, or taken to the landfill? :unsure:

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Is "church" recycled, composted, or taken to the landfill?:thumbsup::thumbsup:

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Only thing collected at my door is food waste in a tiny bathroom sized plastic square bin - twice a week and 3 times in the height of summer. Folks round here are careful when they eat fish (the smell) or water melon because that fills the bin up in two minutes....... and "dry" non recyclable rubbish is collected twice a week. All in special bags and sacks that we pay for.

We have to take all our other crap to communal recycle bins dotted around the village or the ecological centre on the outskirts and the staff there ask for proof of residency.

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Yes is the short answer. Both kitchen waste and recyclables are collected. (How often, what days, how it's divided up, how much you pay, and what colours the different bins are will depend on where you are, but the general point stands.) The only things you're supposed to take to a tip are special category things like old televisions, fridges and batteries.

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After you take them to the "tip", surely all of your examples are recycled and not put in a land fill? :unsure:

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And your point is? :o

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In my municipality the waste collection is "door to door" - no waste bin in the streets.
Waste segregation is: food and "green" from gardens - glass and plastics (separated lately in a dedicated plant) - paper - non segregated.
People are fined if they don't segregate waste properly.
Waste segregation (certified) reached 82% last year.
Where: near Pisa, central Tuscany.
There is one municipality near Lucca, Capannori, who was one of the first to join the so called "zero waste strategy", and actively promotes it.

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As GarbatellaMike said, we have a certain system here in Rome, but whether people stick to it or not is another matter. Look into any of the supposedly differentiated street bins and they'll all contain plenty of stuff they shouldn't. For some people it's too much trouble to even put stuff IN the bins and they leave it on the pavement, and I'm not just talking about big stuff. For instance, for all too many the effort it might take to break down a cardboard box so it can be slotted into the right bin is enough to convince them it needs to go in the general rubbish bin, be left on the floor, or left perched on top of the paper recycling bin.
Sorry, I'm going off on one now...

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The situation regarding waste collection is very varied around Italy. There are exellent situation and very poor ones. On the average, the best ones are in the north and the worse in the south. Big cities like Rome are in trouble for many reasons, one, for Rome, being the exixtance of the big landfill of Malagrotta and the consequent poor waste management policy. On the average, it is demonstrated anyhow that collecting waste on street bins cannot achieve a segregation higher than 40-45 %. The best results are obtained with door-to door collection, and the major cost of collection is paid by the better quality of collected waste.

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Same here sadly. Some twunk recently left a dead depotted 4 foot tall tree by the bins.That's going to be there for ever!

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In my experience most people round here make a reasonable effort at sorting waste and putting it in the right bins. It helps that glass, metal and plastic all go together. It drives me potty that our local council in the UK collects paper, metal and plastic but won't take bottles: they expect people to get in their cars and drive to a bottle bank. How green is that?
Household waste is one thing but sadly street litter is another...

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Where's 'here'?
In our area of Rome they've just recently given us bottle banks, which means that glass should no longer go in with metal and plastic. Ha!

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Same here, although we've had bottle banks as long as we have lived here so we are used to it. Kitchen waste isn't a problem with us, large garden, compost most things, dogs get the rest.

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We had a bottle bank outside the Palazzo for about a week but it is gone now :huh:

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We have five different communal bins for different types of waste: glass (and aluminium), plastic, paper, food waste and indiffernziata (the rest). Every so often you can add to that the big brown one for grass cutting/hedge trimmings/branches etc. as there are a lot of garden round our way. You have to do it all yourself of course thus we have as many rubbish bins at home.
Collection of each is fairly regular although sometimes you will find some of them full up. It's all a bit messy but it's a rare opportunity to see some kind of civic duty on the part of residents.

There are also three or four isole ecologiche in the suburbs where you're supposed to take bigger stuff in your own vehicle. You have to present them with a previous bill/fattura which has a barcode then you're weighed in and out and then you get a slip at the end telling you how much you've deposited. When it first started you'd get a tiny discount once a year on your bill but that's naturally disappeared, which is a pity because they certainly got to know me at ours when we moved house last year.