| lection of items for recycling and the cleaning of our | | | | of citizens. This does not reflect just on the garbage |
| city have become very important themes. | | | | collection, made door to door or with the use of |
| Everybody wants our city to be clean and in order, | | | | garbage bins. A very delicate moment is the cleaning |
| so for example we want rubbish not be around but | | | | of the city’s roads and streets. Cities are |
| inside the garbage bin and that these be regularly | | | | more and more chaotic, more inhabited, traffic |
| empty. | | | | increases and consequently city are also dirtier. Every |
| With the introduction of the collection of items for | | | | city uses its own methods and especially every area |
| recycling, things get more and more complicated. | | | | requires different methods and tools, from manual |
| Many towns had to adapt to this system, and | | | | sweepers to mechanical cleaning. The activities of |
| especially citizens had to learn how to differentiate | | | | garbage removal and road cleaning in a specific |
| and separate the various materials. And this already | | | | municipality are often carried out by the same |
| was a first step not very easy for a lot of people. | | | | enterprise. These enterprises had to renew |
| Until 2006 for all the Italian municipalities it was | | | | themselves and change their structure to be able to |
| obligatory to collect at least 35% of rubbish for | | | | cope with all new needs. |
| recycling (in origin this percentage was to reach until | | | | Many enterprises in addition use renting cleaning |
| 2003); the new regulation provide for the duty to | | | | machine services, to reduce costs of equipments |
| reach the 65% until 2012. Municipalities that will not | | | | renewal. In this field, in fact, there are several |
| respect these limitations, will have to pay very | | | | innovations that could change the life of citizens. For |
| expensive sanctions. While the more a municipality | | | | example, how many people find out a very |
| recycles, the less it pays. In the last years, especially | | | | expensive fine on their car, because they left the car |
| thanks to this system, registered results have been | | | | parked on the road while there was the periodical |
| very good, with the city of Torino on the top around | | | | road cleaning? To solve this problem, now new |
| 50% as recycling percentage and following Verona | | | | cleaning machines have been created, to clean the |
| with the 36%. Some small and medium municipalities | | | | road with cars still parked on the road. These |
| even reach the 80% as recycling percentage. | | | | machines use a new technology, consisting in an arm |
| A second problem to face is the organization of the | | | | (jointed in the big ones, fixed in the small ones) with |
| rubbish collection. Some municipalities have adopted | | | | which the operator on the ground removes, with a |
| the door to door rubbish collection, with fixed days | | | | water and compressed-air jet, the dirt on the |
| for every type of garbage. Some others have put at | | | | sidewalk and under the cars, taking it away to the |
| every street corner the famous colored garbage | | | | middle of the road, from where it is vacuum-clean by |
| bins; each color means a different type of materials. | | | | the machine. |
| Recycling materials are organic garbage, paper, | | | | To love our city also means help keeping it clean, the |
| aluminum, plastic and glass. | | | | recycling of rubbish and garbage is a fundamental |
| With these new services new needs also rise, as | | | | moment, but not just that. Municipality also needs to |
| new methods of rubbish collection or the use of new | | | | make aware and involve all the citizens in improving |
| road sweepers. | | | | the urban sanitation and the territory hygiene, toward |
| The cleanliness of our city is a core theme for a lot | | | | ecologically virtuous habits. |