We Italians have the vice of mistreating ourselves, but the Conai data on waste recycling show that in 2020 we won every previous environmental record: Italy recycles 73% of the packaging it uses. A comparison figure: Europe has set the recycling of 65% of packaging as a future target for 2025.
If the reuse of energy as fuel is added to the physical recycling of material, the total amount of packaging taken from the landfill is 83.7%. In total, nearly 11 million tons of resources that were not buried in landfills.
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Beyond the rosiest expectations
“Our first estimates, at the beginning of the year, spoke of a 71%: some of us saw it as an excess of optimism for a difficult year like 2020. Instead, the forecasts turned out to be even too cautious”, he confirms in presenting the general report the president of the national packaging Consortium Conai, Luca Ruini. “The highest recycling rate our country has known.”
Laura D’Aprile, general manager at the Ministry of Ecological Transition adds that “Italy confirms its leadership in the recycling of packaging; the South is growing almost as much as the North and will be further supported with the investments planned in the NRP ».
In the year of the epidemic
Certainly, the 2020 data had the powerful distortion of sanitary confinement, which brought down consumption but increased the demand for packaged products for families: the health safety needs led to not buying bulk food while the recourse at home addresses, the quantity of cartons to be disposed of increased.