Development of Biological Waste Management in the Province of Torino

Waste management system in the Province of Torino will change when, in 2011, a new incinerator will be fully operative. Considering the scarce residual capacity of landfills, the Piemonte Region has imposed to reach the 50% of source separation by 2011 in order to cover the needs until the start up of the incinerator. As it has been already registered in some cases, the target can be reached only with a door to door modality of source separation. By this way the separately collected organic fraction will increase and this implies the improvement of biological plants system; besides unavoidable quality changes will cause time lengthening in biological treatments with a resulting plants potentiality reduction.