If the landfill becomes a green oasis

Nothing it is created, nothing is destroyed, everything is transformed. It is the principle that green chemistry applies to all materials, even indestructible and non-transformable ones, inert waste. In Cairo Montenotte (Savona), there is a small landfill called La Filippa as a tribute to an old local farmhouse. The landfill was born on a clay quarry, dug over the decades to make bricks. “It is a landfill serving the circular economy,” explains President Massimo Vaccari. The waste comes from Liguria and the North West and, before ending up in the quarry, is screened by third-party laboratories. When the work is finished, when all the holes in the quarry have been filled and covered, “the area will become a park”. Considering that Italy has 14,441 disused or abandoned quarries, source Legambiente’s «Quarries Report 2021», the model could be replicated.