In Italy the plastics processing industry is booming

This is despite the prolonged economic crisis and the consumer declines by approximately 11 % (768.000 t).

In the plastics recycling industry Italy involving about 300 companies, which employ about two thousand people. Using the thermal utilization of waste plastics in the past year was made more than 7 billion kilowatt/hours of electric current. It also means that the landfills were 22 million cubic meters less trash than usual.

The organization of the waste collection service 57 million people in 7325 municipalities in this South European country. This corresponds to about 96% of the total population.

The most hard part of the regions of Venice, Lombardy, Tuscany and Piedmont.

While more than half of recyclable waste is household waste deposited for recycling by local residents. A smaller part comes from industrial and commercial enterprises.





Source: greenevolution.ru