WASTES MANAGEMENT IN PROVINCEOF TORINO

Waste disposal in Province of Torino is atypical respect to other Provinces of northern Italy since it is still based on landfilling. In order to redesign waste management, in 1997 source separation of waste was promoted according to a “road” (“stradale”) modality, which has yielded not so homogeneous and satisfactory results. For this reason, in order to improve the separate collection, the “door to door” (“porta a porta”) modality has been activated in last years and it is in course of experimentation. The present work shows the analysis of source separation trend in the Province on the basis of results obtained between 1997 and 2004. This allowed to develop a model to interpret and foresee source separation evolution. Moreover, on the basis of the working plants available in the Province territory, the model also allows to plan the necessity of new plants in particular regard to biological ones.