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Agreement in order to start the differentiated collection of the refusals in the port of Genoa
first will be realized in harbour within on a national level
March 4, 2016
Today admiral Giovanni Pettorino, extraordinary commissioner of the Harbour Authority of Genoa, the general manager of Conai (National Consortium Packings), Walter Facciotto, and Marco Castagna, only administrator of the Ge.Am society. Spa participated from the Harbour Authority and the Amiu, the society that takes care of the entire cycle of urban solid wastes to Genoa, has undersigned a protocol of understanding for the study and the implementation of a service of collection differentiated inside of the genoese harbour area. The objective of the initiative, that it will lead on a national level to the realization of the first system of differentiation of the refusals in harbour within, is to arrive to the separation and the start to money laundering of beyond 60% of the 4,000 tons of refusals produced inside of the area.
the agreement previews a first phase of sampling of the present refusals in the harbour area so as to establish of the merceologiche characteristics, the amounts and the potentialities of start to money laundering to the aim of having the which-quantitative photography of the packing materials - steel, aluminum, paper, wood, plastic and glass - and characterizing which operating methodologies of collection are more functional to their recovery.
the private consortium Conai, thanks to the experience until today matured, will assure to Ge.Am the necessary competences for the planning and the development of the plan of management of the refusals finalized to the collection and the start to money laundering of the packing refusals. Moreover Conai will contribute to the purchase of the equipments necessary for the bestowal of the refusals differentiated from the harbour customers and to the realization of an informative campaign and of sensitization necessary to supply information for a correct differentiation of the refusals, indispensable in order to guarantee the successive start to money laundering.
"With this new collaboration, been born in order to guarantee a service that is becoming a priority in all the Country - has emphasized admiral Pettorino - the port of Genoa confirmation its attention to every form of improvement of the working and environmental situation of its space of job. The port of Genoa has for a long time entered the road of the sustainable development, of the maximum respect of the laws as regards safety and the cure of the harbour and city territory. The efficiency of the docks depends also from this type of participations".
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