Sustainable Waste Management Criteria for Local Urban Plans

The paper illustrates a new approach to waste management aiming at developing strategies and actions to be integrated into municipal planning tools. The local structure plan has been recognized as the planning tool in which to integrate sustainability objectives in the field of waste management. The door-to-door waste collection has been selected as the best strategy for guaranteeing high standards of waste separate collection in the new developments and restoration areas in the Bologna municipality. Following, criteria for dimensioning the space to be reserved for waste collection, both at the apartment and at the block scale and at urban scale have been proposed to be acknowledged into the local building regulations. The proposed approach has been verified through the application to a local development plan in the Bologna municipality and its feasibility has been tested both under the technical and economic point of view.