Waste: Castelli (Arera), ‘we work to encourage real recycling’

“Since 2018, the authority has been in charge of regulating the waste issue in Italy. It is a very difficult undertaking with very different realities in Italy.” In this scenario, “the regulation seeks to encourage real recycling”. This was stated by Gianni Castelli, member of the Arera college, on the occasion of the ‘Time of dignity and peace’ appointment at the Stelline Foundation in Milan, during the panel ‘Ecological transition and energy independence’. Separate collection, Castelli underlines, “is a necessary but not sufficient condition. It is the brick on which we must build but downstream we must have the plants that make the material usable and also that consumes it. It is useless to have Italian areas that collect separate waste and then throw it in landfills. Europe asks us this: waste must be used where it is produced. In Italy, on the other hand, we have 200,000 trucks that even travel abroad from the south “.