I would say its very good in Sweden, my only complaint is if you wanna recycle/throw a old sofa, clothes etc you have to often have a drivers license to br able to drive to a recycle center which i dont have.
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I think in Italy it depends a great deal where you live, like most services here!
Even within my city it depends a lot which part of the city you are in.
Where I live in the more modern centre there’s a good collection system that’s enforced, with different days for different kinds of waste, and (in theory at least) whatever can be recycled is.
In most of the city… including the historical centre and much of the periphery… everything is just thrown into large bins in the street, and that goes directly to the dump.
There is too much rubbish for the recycling facilities and indeed too much for the dump… the local council has being trying to find a space for a new incinerator, but no-one wants that near them, there are a lot of environmental concerns.
At the moment a good amount of the city waste is trucked out of the city and into the province.
It’s good enough. Okay, it’s actually very good but it doesn’t come often enough so you’ll find all the rubbish in big piles for a few days before the trucks come around to pick things up. For big items (furniture etc) they have a free dump box unit that comes by every few months where you can take them.
Generally yes (at least in my city), if you have some big piece of furniture that you want ro get rid of you can call the waste management company and they will come to your place and take it (it can be for free or for a price depending on the item).
I think the main problem is people throwing their “home” garbage on the public bins on the street, which will get filled easily. The waste management company has been trying to fight this behaviour but with not great results so far.
Garbage is a municipal responsibility, so it really depends on where you live.
But most places are pretty good. There are less densely populated regions, where multiple municipalities work together and only have one recycling center between them, so you have to drive far to get your stuff there. Elsewhere, small municipalities still run their own, but its only open every second Saturday for three hours or something.
Its similar in germany, but to solve the driving issue we have what is called “sperrmüll” (bulky waste): you can apply to have the waste management company come and take away waste of a certain size. Its free for a certain amount twice a year, for more you have to pay. Since garbage management is communal it might differ in other cities.
Mediocre IMO. We have good recycling schemes and regular waste collections from public bins, household waste is collected once a week for recycled stuff and once every two weeks for non-recycled stuff.
But as in Sweden, if you want to dispose of bulky waste, you may have to drive to a centre. However, some councils do offer free bulky waste collections.
Some councils have gone batshit crazy and want to introduce once a month bin collections, but there’s been considerable public pushback so this is unlikely to be implemented.
This isn’t enough though because you still see fly-tipped rubbish in places, and all the Government does is respond with increasing fines and punishments for fly-tipping without focusing on the reasons it happens to begin with.
Birmingham city is on bin strike at the moment so I’m hearing people are struggling with uncollected waste.
Also, a lot of people here have completely disgusting habits. They’ll throw their litter in nature or on the street even when there are public bins everywhere, in my neighbourhood I see someone has previously fly-tipped household rubbish into the woods. It’s quite pathetic.
What do you consider as good? Examples for germany:
1) Complete collection and little drop-off in the environment including things like dog-shit and cigarette buts: good to very good.
2) Thermal processing of residual waste and further separation of metal and plastic fractioms from the non-burnt residues: very good.
3) Separation of household and company refuse in fractioms at the source: good.
4) Waste water treatment: average because of lack of microplastic management and extraction of chemicals and pharmaceutial residues.
5) Reuse and upcycling of waste partitions like wood and plastic (best in country or at least in a controlled way): abysmal.
6) Bulky items recycling: average because it depends on your mode of transport and there is no regular public service for transport available.
Current situation in Sweden:
– It is now forbidden to throw used clothes and other textiles in the garbage bin.
– Right, so what should we do with it?
– It needs to be recycled or sold second hand.
– Ok but how?
– We don’t know yet, please just store it in your homes for the coming year or two until we’ve figured it out . 🤷🏻
Can’t you order a pick up for the sofa? Don’t your housing cooperative/condominium arrange a waste gathering platform once or twice a year where people can throw their stuff and then a truck pikc it up and away
Those two are possible and common at least here in Finland
And before you say that the pick up costs, you should think of that when you buy the sofa. Recycling costs should be considered a part od the sofa costs also. Like any furniture
Yes and no.
I remember going to school, I would ask my grandma for plastic bottles and she would ALWAYS have one and would fill it with water. We never run out, somehow
They also have their own garden where they grow all kinds of things, one of them is tomatoes, with which they make tomato sauce, which is stored in plastic water bottles.
They also now recycle the bottles, since that got introduced in the country too.
But, Romania as a whole wasn’t super good at managing waste.
Nowadays, things might’ve changed, and I think it’s definitely getting better, but I’m not living in Romania anymore.
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I think in Italy it depends a great deal where you live, like most services here!
Even within my city it depends a lot which part of the city you are in.
Where I live in the more modern centre there’s a good collection system that’s enforced, with different days for different kinds of waste, and (in theory at least) whatever can be recycled is.
In most of the city… including the historical centre and much of the periphery… everything is just thrown into large bins in the street, and that goes directly to the dump.
There is too much rubbish for the recycling facilities and indeed too much for the dump… the local council has being trying to find a space for a new incinerator, but no-one wants that near them, there are a lot of environmental concerns.
At the moment a good amount of the city waste is trucked out of the city and into the province.
It’s good enough. Okay, it’s actually very good but it doesn’t come often enough so you’ll find all the rubbish in big piles for a few days before the trucks come around to pick things up. For big items (furniture etc) they have a free dump box unit that comes by every few months where you can take them.
Generally yes (at least in my city), if you have some big piece of furniture that you want ro get rid of you can call the waste management company and they will come to your place and take it (it can be for free or for a price depending on the item).
I think the main problem is people throwing their “home” garbage on the public bins on the street, which will get filled easily. The waste management company has been trying to fight this behaviour but with not great results so far.
Garbage is a municipal responsibility, so it really depends on where you live.
But most places are pretty good. There are less densely populated regions, where multiple municipalities work together and only have one recycling center between them, so you have to drive far to get your stuff there. Elsewhere, small municipalities still run their own, but its only open every second Saturday for three hours or something.
Its similar in germany, but to solve the driving issue we have what is called “sperrmüll” (bulky waste): you can apply to have the waste management company come and take away waste of a certain size. Its free for a certain amount twice a year, for more you have to pay. Since garbage management is communal it might differ in other cities.
Mediocre IMO. We have good recycling schemes and regular waste collections from public bins, household waste is collected once a week for recycled stuff and once every two weeks for non-recycled stuff.
But as in Sweden, if you want to dispose of bulky waste, you may have to drive to a centre. However, some councils do offer free bulky waste collections.
Some councils have gone batshit crazy and want to introduce once a month bin collections, but there’s been considerable public pushback so this is unlikely to be implemented.
This isn’t enough though because you still see fly-tipped rubbish in places, and all the Government does is respond with increasing fines and punishments for fly-tipping without focusing on the reasons it happens to begin with.
Birmingham city is on bin strike at the moment so I’m hearing people are struggling with uncollected waste.
Also, a lot of people here have completely disgusting habits. They’ll throw their litter in nature or on the street even when there are public bins everywhere, in my neighbourhood I see someone has previously fly-tipped household rubbish into the woods. It’s quite pathetic.
What do you consider as good? Examples for germany:
1) Complete collection and little drop-off in the environment including things like dog-shit and cigarette buts: good to very good.
2) Thermal processing of residual waste and further separation of metal and plastic fractioms from the non-burnt residues: very good.
3) Separation of household and company refuse in fractioms at the source: good.
4) Waste water treatment: average because of lack of microplastic management and extraction of chemicals and pharmaceutial residues.
5) Reuse and upcycling of waste partitions like wood and plastic (best in country or at least in a controlled way): abysmal.
6) Bulky items recycling: average because it depends on your mode of transport and there is no regular public service for transport available.
Current situation in Sweden:
– It is now forbidden to throw used clothes and other textiles in the garbage bin.
– Right, so what should we do with it?
– It needs to be recycled or sold second hand.
– Ok but how?
– We don’t know yet, please just store it in your homes for the coming year or two until we’ve figured it out . 🤷🏻
Can’t you order a pick up for the sofa? Don’t your housing cooperative/condominium arrange a waste gathering platform once or twice a year where people can throw their stuff and then a truck pikc it up and away
Those two are possible and common at least here in Finland
And before you say that the pick up costs, you should think of that when you buy the sofa. Recycling costs should be considered a part od the sofa costs also. Like any furniture
Yes and no.
I remember going to school, I would ask my grandma for plastic bottles and she would ALWAYS have one and would fill it with water. We never run out, somehow
They also have their own garden where they grow all kinds of things, one of them is tomatoes, with which they make tomato sauce, which is stored in plastic water bottles.
They also now recycle the bottles, since that got introduced in the country too.
But, Romania as a whole wasn’t super good at managing waste.
Nowadays, things might’ve changed, and I think it’s definitely getting better, but I’m not living in Romania anymore.