Environmental and Social Sustainability of the Proximity Waste Collection System: A Case-Study Evaluation at an Italian Local Scale

摘要: In an urban or suburban area, the sustainability of a waste management process is expected to be closely related territorial context and local citizens’ behaviour. From this perspective, implementation peculiar proximity collection system in small town Central Italy (San Costanzo) was considered. As compared previous road same municipality, its environmental performance terms Source Separation Level (SSL), Waste Generation Collection Rate (WGR WCR) Interception (IR) evaluated. An original analysis monthly frequency their participation rate both relation setting out Unsorted Residual (URW) also carried out. Following full new scheme, SSL achieved almost 79%, WCR URW decreased by about 82% most IR values resulted above 83%. social point view, study further highlighted that, with scheme active, more than 50% users were accustomed set at 5 times per month corresponding around 62%.