Why and Berlusconi also Bassolino insist on building new incinerators and do not take into account the Thor?
not know? They did not know?
They knew, they knew it .... so did the Prodi government .
We talked ourselves into February 2008 in an article in The Reppublica , Neapolitan edition. Here in question: The Republic
(08/02/2001 , page 1 section NAPLES)
The Mill on the CNR is the separation of
LUCA STAMA
Dario Scalella us said yesterday that it would was made in 2011 to solve the problem of waste. Instead I want to focus on what was done in 2008. Taking advantage of a Supreme Court ruling that abolished state subsidies to incineration / waste-and the resolution of 13 November 2001 by which the government adopted the 'goal' zero waste "the city has waived the construction of incinerators and the focus was, in collaboration with private companies, recycling and composting. With different forms of collection domiciliarizzate, he arrived in 2002 to recycle 62 percent post-consumer material. In recent years it has been understood that recycling and composting alone would not be enough to solve the problem waste, hence the project "Zero Waste" which once again shows the significant role of citizens organized to overcome the resistance of the government and the powerful lobby of disposal. But next to a vast movement of public opinion in favor of this policy are also several companies (among them Xerox) have understood as a political re-engineering of products, aimed at 'use of recycled materials as raw materials, but even More to the reuse of objects, is the way in winning a competitive market where energy, raw materials and disposal will always be more expensive. Then they constructed composting facilities outside the city (100 km) where the wet part of the deal waste and the compost product is used by farmers for agricultural production. In town the other hand, in abandoned industrial areas were built recycling facilities, rehabilitation centers and deconstruction of the fraction of residual waste, setting up a research center coordinated by a special 'local university. They gave technical advice and incentives to industries to reduce the upstream generation of waste (packaging). Finally, to solve the problem of residual fraction landfills now use temporary and are closely following the Italian National Research Council to use the Thor (Total house waste recycling ). It is a system developed by the National Research Council , society Assing of Rome, which allows you to recover and refine the municipal solid waste without separating them according to their nature. It is a sort of next-generation mill that can process the waste materials to insulate all the useful components from harmful substances and useless. L 'system, through a process of grinding by friction, breaking, in fact, the molecular structure of PVC and all substances containing chlorine, after it reacted with calcium, at the end of the process of producing calcium chloride, an inert substance and non-polluting. The waste thus be reduced in a mixture of size less than ten centimeters in millimeters: a homogeneous material, purified by the parties and harmful content heater, could be used as solid fuel. Comparable to a coal of good quality, this product can be "palletized" or, through a process of pyrolysis (always feasible to 'internal Thor), transformed into a biofuel for diesel engines. Finally, there remains a party represented by water, ejected in the form of steam during the process of micronization. A first industrial-size plant is located in 'area of \u200b\u200bCapo d' Orlando, Sicily and the first test, confirming the CNR, are giving good results, coming to treat up to eight tonnes of rubbish 's time. The trial will continue for some months. Then, by the end of this year 's, will start marketing. Scalella course was referring to Naples, my comments refer instead to San Francisco. Naples has about one million inhabitants and little space, San Francisco has 850,000 inhabitants and so little space, but there with the choice of giving up the incinerators and point to the upstream waste reduction, recycling and reuse them to reach the target of 50 per cent collection in 2000, 63 in 2004, and pursue the 'target of 75 in 2010 and 100 percent in 2020. As is well known that Americans are neither just nor dangerous extremist fundamentalist reformers and dreamers and beyond the polemics about the dangers of incinerators for the health of citizens, perhaps what happens in San Francisco could help us understand that there is no way obliged to waste disposal.
