Naples, Asia and Erion WEEE together to raise awareness on the correct disposal of electrical and electronic waste.
Starting from March 13, the streets of the Campania capital will be affected by a plan of street posters to let citizens know what WEEE is and how to dispose of it correctly
Naples, Asia and Erion WEEE together to raise awareness on the correct disposal of electrical and electronic waste.
In the presence of the Mayor of Naples, Gaetano Manfredi, the Green Councilor Vincenzo Santagada and the Councilor for Education and Family, Maura Striano, it was signed today by the Sole Director of ASIA Napoli SpA, Domenico Ruggiero and by the General Director by Erion WEEE, Giorgio Arienti, the agreement for the collaboration between the integrated environmental hygiene services company and the Erion System Consortium dedicated to the management of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE), which will start in the next few weeks with the The aim is to raise awareness among the citizens of the Campania capital on the topic of WEEE and on good practices for their correct disposal.
With the initiative “Recycling WEEE is a beautiful story!” a combined action starts on three fronts: poster campaign, training activities for students and extraordinary collection moments of small WEEE at the schools involved in the project.
Starting from March 13, the streets of the Campania capital will be affected by a plan of street posters to let citizens know what WEEE is and how to dispose of it correctly. Subsequently, 11 schools participating in the initiative will be involved in training lessons held by sector experts on the topics of sustainability and recycling, also participating in a competition. In fact, special containers will be positioned inside the school buildings in which children will be able to dispose of small electrical and electronic waste which will subsequently be collected by ASIA Napoli. The school that has collected the most WEEE will be rewarded with a voucher for the purchase of educational material, as part of an official ceremony to be held in May.
“Today we are signing a very important agreement because the disposal of electronic waste is one of the great emergencies of contemporary times, it is a great resource but it is also a great environmental problem. We decided to start from schools because those who handle cell phones and electronic equipment in general the most are children and therefore this is the opportunity to explain to them that these tools at a certain point must then be disposed of correctly and regularly. In general we are pushing a lot on the organized and industrial recovery of waste with the aim not only of protecting our environment but also of considering it as a great economic resource. There are noble metals in electronic waste, there is the possibility of greatly reducing the environmental impact but also of finding economic resources and we are going strongly in this direction". This was declared by the Mayor of Naples Gaetano Manfredi.
“I thank ASIA Napoli and the Municipality for their ready willingness to collaborate on this important project, which aims not only to raise awareness among young people on the issue of correct waste disposal, but also to invite Neapolitan citizens to take advantage of the services they have available provision for correctly disposing of WEEE. Still too often, in fact, this waste is kept at home even if unused or thrown in the unsorted waste." declared Giorgio Arienti, General Director of Erion WEEE. “The initiative is part of the broader DireFareRAEE communication and awareness program, launched in 2022 and which will continue throughout 2023.”.
“In our homes there is a small mine: they are all those electronic devices that we no longer use but keep set aside in drawers and wardrobes. Cell phones, battery chargers, radios, remote controls and any other object that is unused because it is not working or just because it is "outdated" can still be useful if correctly started for recovery" declared the AU of ASIA, engineer Domenico Ruggiero who then continued: “Separating and correctly disposing of waste from electrical and electronic equipment has a double value of respect for the environment: it is not polluted with the old and the exploitation of mines to create the new is reduced. the DireFareRAEE initiative of the Erion WEEE consortium which ASIA welcomed and included in the Educambiente project under the patronage of the Municipality aims to convey this message and increase awareness on the topic.
“Today's morning is very important and is part of our Agenda 20-30 programming and therefore the more general discussion of environmental sustainability and correct waste disposal. Messages must be passed into schools that are conveyed in a clear and effective way from a scientific point of view: the children are then the ones who will take these processes into their own hands, they will also bring them within their families and will also do educational work with their parents and their brothers." This was stated by Education Councilor Maura Striano
“This morning's initiative on WEEE is perfectly in line with the other we announced, namely “Clean Neighborhood” with the aim of encouraging citizens to actively participate on the topic of correct waste disposal: The Clean Neighborhood project provides precisely, among other things, the installation of mobile ecological islands in every neighborhood where citizens will also be able to bring WEEE. We must imagine the city as our condominium, the Neapolitans are the condominiums, each of us must do our part and only in this way can we keep a truly clean city and activate the circular economy system". This was declared by Green Councilor Vincenzo Santagada
WEEE management data on Naples
In the Naples area in 2022 Erion WEEE managed over 1 tonnes of Domestic WEEE, from the correct treatment of which the following were obtained: 8 tonnes of iron (equivalent to the weight of a Frecciarossa 514), 1000 tonnes of plastic (equivalent to approximately 174 garden chairs), 69.600 tons of aluminum (equivalent to approximately 27 coffee mokas) and 31.500 tons of copper (equivalent to 29 km of cables). Thanks to virtuous management of this waste within the municipal territory, Erion WEEE has avoided the emission into the atmosphere of almost 33 tonnes of CO13.400 (like the quantity that would be absorbed in a year by a 2 km13 forest, just over extension of Pompeii) and allowed the saving of over 2.000.000 kWh of electricity (equal to the annual domestic consumption of a city of approximately two thousand inhabitants).
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