Last week Confservizi Piemonte alerted that by 2025 in Piedmont the maximum capacity of current landfills will be reached, while the waste-to-energy plant of Turin (which dispose 530thousand tonnes for year) won't be able to satisfy all regional needs.
Therefore, Confservizi calls attention to the duties of the Region Piemonte which needs to plan and implement specific actions to tackle the problem before the situation becomes critical. Among the possible alternatives besides the export of waste to other Regions, there is the expansion of the current landfills or the construction of new ones, the enlargement of the waste-to-energy plant of Gerbibo or the construction of a new one.
The first of them is expensive and adverse to the logic of proximity in waste management. The last two options are currently being studied by the Region.
Legambiente, in response, made the call “No more new incinerators in Piedmont!”. The association claims that if Piedmont reached the goals of the Regional Plan 2025 (among which 70% of recycling), there would be such a quantity of waste to manage that the capacity of the plant of Gerbido would be enough. Giorgio Prino, President of Legambiente Piemonte e Valle d’Aosta, affirms then: “The four years that separate us from the alleged emergency should be used to work on reduction, reuse and recycling, in accordance with the European law.”
To learn more:
Un altro inceneritore o il Piemonte dovrà esportare o interrare i suoi rifiuti, Corriere della Sera
Piemonte, allarme rifiuti nel 2025: "Servirà un altro inceneritore", La Repubblica
Piemonte, per il secondo inceneritore spunta l’ipotesi Novi: “Gestito in partnership con la Liguria”, La Repubblica