Hollyhock

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

37100

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

Garbatellamike

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

ononno

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.

Pulaski

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.

37100

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! ! *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.

Pulaski

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

Capo Boi

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.

Pulaski

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

Capo Boi

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

Lorna at Vicenza

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.

Sancho

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.

Pulaski

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

Sancho

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Pulaski

And your point is?