Salerno Introduces PAYT System in Experimental Project

The operations for weighing the waste produced by household users who joined the experimental project to introduce the PAYT (Pay-As-You-Throw) tariff in Salerno began last night. The city was divided into six macro areas and in five of these areas last night, from 8:00 PM to 8:30 PM, participants exposed the red bin they received, containing glass inside and with the green bag for organic waste placed on the lid, in front of their doors on public ground. Immediately after, facilitators equipped with badges, orange vests, scales, and tablets began to weigh the glass and organic waste conferred, attributing the respective quantities to each household thanks to the unique code each bin is equipped with. The operations continued well past midnight. At four o'clock this morning, the collection by Salerno Pulita employees began, who emptied both the red bins of the participants in the experiment and the communal bins for glass and organic waste. In the morning, after the emptying, users who joined the experiment were able to retrieve their bin to reuse it for subsequent disposals. This morning the weighing operations took place in the hill districts, from Matierno to Sordina, where, as is known, the collection is carried out in the afternoon. Salerno Pulita reminds that it is still possible to sign up for the experiment, and this can be done either at the Fratte and Arechi municipal collection centers - where at the time of registration you also collect the bin and bags for the collection to be used in the about three months of the experiment - or at the mobile collection center that on Saturday, March 23, from 9:00 AM to 12:30 PM, will be in the Italia neighborhood on via Medaglie d'oro at the corner with viale Kennedy. Registration is also possible via the internet on the Salerno Pulita website and receive the bin with bags at home. For scheduling reasons, users residing in the streets of the nightlife area, whose list is available on the Salerno Pulita website, are excluded from the experiment. It is recalled that the transition from Tari to PAYT is provided by a national law of 2013. Salerno Pulita and the Municipality of Salerno in this project are supported by Conai (National Packaging Consortium), which uses the technical collaboration of Officine Sostenibili, and by Legambiente, which has provided the facilitators who have been appropriately trained in recent weeks.