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Waste: the grass (Swiss) is greener.

The grass really is greener near ?

Yes, if you call around Switzerland and the topic on the table is that of waste management: the Swiss Confederation has developed a consolidated tariff system PAYT (Pay as you throw , or Pay as throw) that has generated, from the years 1992/1993, a decrease in the production of garbage by 15 percent compared with an increase of population of 3.9 percent.
tens of kilometers further south, in Milan , The second capital of Italy, almost everything has been stopped but the system TARSU (tax on municipal solid waste), which requires using as one parameter for calculating the area of \u200b\u200bresidential or business premises where they may have originally waste. Although with the Ronchi Decree, 1997, Italy has also welcomed an EU directive aimed at replacing the TARSU from January 1, 1999 with the rate of environmental hygiene (TIA, subdivided into fixed and variable, or point it, the more accurate but complex, or presumptive, more imperfect), in order to charge users for exactly what use the service despite a thousand and two hundred municipalities, including Florence and Rome, and almost one third those of Lombard, have accepted the new tariff in time, Milan still looks a little concerned.
Yet the virtuous circle set in motion by the application of specific tariffs, Lunches, is debatable, at least for the nearby Swiss : "The percentage of recycled waste, particularly glass, aluminum, paper, metal and some packaging Plastic - confirmation Stefan Schwager office of the Environment section of the Swiss municipal waste and construction - has grown considerably following the introduction of the system of casual fare. " But most of all: the PAYT system has led to empowerment of citizens on the recycling front and the rise of pressure on suppliers to the same minimization of packaging and disposable products. In Switzerland, for example, toothpaste today are sold without boxes.
It 's the law of the critical consumption. "Trade - added Schwager - changed packaging and containers on the one hand because people left in the shops boxes and extra packaging and, second, he began to use plastic reusable containers for distribution to shops in fruits, vegetables, milk, etc., which can be used for so many laps making logistical element of green marketing. " Virtuous cycle, which find examples in other countries and cities of the continent.
Even the regulation specifies that the Milanese TARSU amount that each user must pay depends on how the AMSA (local environmental services company) spent on waste collection and disposal, but the information on this point is totally absent: it does nothing to explain to the citizens. And so was frustrated this opportunity to create a virtuous circle. Milan daily production of two thousand tons of garbage , Lombardy, in a year, about five million tonnes - a billion-euro business about - a third of which is incinerated.
With the move to pricing would be possible to recover at least half a million tonnes of municipal waste, which would not only not having to build new incinerators, but could even resign even some of those now active . And 'in fact, even the Swiss experience to provide numbers: it was found that, when one introduces the rate on the lot, the amount of waste destined for incineration decreases, on average, thirty percent. Col safe placet popular : Eighty-eight percent of respondents living in municipalities where the tax is applied PAYT - data are derived from a study commissioned by the Swiss Conference of Directors of Public Works, Planning and the Environment (DTAP) - believes that the principle of fair and reasonable costs judge eighty-seven percent. ( written in collaboration with Claudio Scotti )

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Veneto kills its wildlife. NO hunting

Two days ago the Regional Council of Veneto, my native land, hunted by law made four species of protected birds : The transfer, the Brambling, Chaffinch and the Meadow Pipit , insectivorous bird (in photo ) weighing a few ounces, served in our country since 1982. "It will be a massacre - said the League Abolition of Hunting Veneto - because pipit approach the hunting lodge at all frightened by the shots and it attracted curious to recall and mirrors."
They voted for the representatives of the Northern League , National Alliance, Forza Italy , CCD, while the councilors abstained Causin and Azzi of PD : their failure to have secured a quorum for the proposal would pass in time before the opening of hunting season, on 21 September. They have participated in the vote, while expressing their opposition councilors Bettin (Verdi), Petten (PRC Communist) and Covi (Social Committee) with the intent to lack a quorum. Failed. Hunting as a sport is cruel that in a civilized society should be put aside voluntarily: the life of animals deserves full respect. The problem is, of course, only Italian, but even the ' England has failed to remove, making it illegal since 2005, its traditional fox hunting, the long memory of nobility. Venetian policy that refuses to be blackmailed sure of the votes (do ut des) has his tail between his legs. V sold as .

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It 's time of plan B: recommendations for a sustainable living?

Welcome to the tropics. The Italian cities of northern Italy is fast becoming a cause of climate change. For the third time in just over two weeks this evening Milan was swept by a storm in twenty minutes, flooded streets, subway stations and housing facilities. The force of the wind and the amount of water made me think of a summer storm certainly not end "tempered". In Turin has happened even worse, as the wind gusts uprooted a traffic signal that killed a motorist. The signs of serious environmental destruction caused by human activities are now daily and touch on all of us. The natural balance of the planet are very close to collapse: experts call it "point of no return" and it seems that the time for real change before final irreversibility of the degradation process of natural systems has been reduced to ten years . E ' must be quickly released from dependence on fossil fuels and launch a comprehensive process of decline : it's time for plan B (b -rod?), Writes the economist Lester R. Brown in his latest book, published by Edizioni Ambiente . Read it. On it is written in the subtitle on the cover: Mobilizing to Save Civilization . This, on the plate. The policy has one very important game to play, and that is to save the planet. Who hesitates and points to the future must be considered a criminal . Or a huge ignorant. A coward. Outside the courage.

In our small are already several things you can try to do. Some of my suggestions:

- stop considering cars as our appendix: should be used only when public transport, bicycles or legs are not available. The car, for those who live in metropolitan cities or small towns, are often completely unnecessary : a whim, an object of status symbol, now a commodity out of time. Rather, try car-sharing (recently in Milan has launched a campaign in favor of this approach: it is called guide me ). It 's very important then, for those who own a car, switch to hybrid or CNG systems.

- rediscover the small direct production : Buying directly from the manufacturer can not only ensure high quality in what you buy, but also to initiate a virtuous circle in which you avoid waste and unnecessary transport and road travel products, use of chemical fertilizers and harmful non-biodegradable packaging (tons of garbage is often not recyclable) or simply not be reused. We discover the GAS ( purchasing groups http://www.retegas.org/ ) in our area.

- When we go shopping in any store, let us go into shoulder bags, canvas or anything, but avoid buying plastic bags , one of the most polluting and already banned from 'European Union.

- We drink tap water : is controlled drinking. In Milan there are even two controlling bodies of public water. To remove the smell of chlorine that can sometimes be bitter, just put water in a jug in the fridge for a few hours. We are the country in the world that uses more water bottles: a tide of plastic (and money) for a product that would free in every home, the same if not better. Tap water also require the premises: who will look wrong (it happens) do a nice smile response. No one can deny you of your tap water!

- reusable reuse it, the rest painstakingly ricicliamolo . Awarded because the municipalities initiate or improve the collection. It 'the only way to not end up submerged in trash: incinerators are an illusion, according to many doctors cause cancer and are a failure from the point of view.

- sharpen our diet to make it vegetarian: l ' excessive meat consumption globally brings with it very complex problems, which cause a strong side from lack of food in poor countries, the other, a remarkable reflection of pollution (from deforestation to methane of animal origin). The studies in this regard are many, just do a jump on the network. And use common sense. Being vegetarian is not difficult: proteins are recovered without great difficulty from eggs, vegetables, etc.. No to fundamentalism, to ensure awareness of what we eat: we know what's behind it?

- making more efficient use of energy in our homes: to promote alternative energy (and managers that they distribute in a transparent manner), eliminate all incandescent bulbs , we use the ' energy of the sun (in Italy is great) by installing photovoltaic panels on the roofs of our homes.

- Let us never forget that we are all interdependent on each other . And the future is decided in recent years.

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