David Borrelli, town councillor with the list GrilliTreviso: Rifiuti Zero a Treviso {Zero Refuse in Treviso}
There’s a lot of confusion about the terms consumption and development. Many people think that they are the same thing. The psycho-dwarf for example. To come out of the crisis he has transformed himself into a travelling salesman for white goods and Fiat cars. To get my ideas clear, I consulted a dictionary:
- To consume: to diminish or wear out with use; to exhaust; to terminate
- To develop: to cause to grow. To give strength to our future is the development without consumption. It is the model of society that needs to be changed or there will no longer be a society. Recycling is an economic resource. Saving is an economic resource. The planet in which we live is continually regenerating itself. The 5 Star town is a town of the Planet. A good that we have to pass on to our children.

The National meeting of 5 Star towns will be held in Florence at the Saschall Teatro on Sunday 8 March 2009.
The 5 stars correspond to five specific areas: Water, Energy, Development, Environment and Transport. Today I’m publishing an article on DEVELOPMENT. Use the comment facility to send in your thoughts.

”BEFORE ZERO REFUSE:
To understand the concept of Zero Refuse, put into practice by the State of California that is a part of the action strategies described in Barack Obama’s blog it’s necessary to start off with these concepts:
a) everything that cannot be re-used, recycled or composted, is an error and it must be substituted in the production cycle via a strategy that sees the institutions, the companies, and the universities collaborating from now on for the next 15 years.
b) the relationship between jobs created by the recycling industry with respect to incineration and landfill is 15 to 1. For every 15 jobs for recycling, only one job is created for landfill and incinerators. (source: Conai)
c) Incineration, once the public subsidies are taken away (taxes from the citizens), cannot stand up on its own from an economic point of view and it turns out to be the most costly method of waste disposal (source: Wall Street Journal!) and the research project “Light myfire”.
d) As has been proved by comparative studies doorstep collection rather than the current system of using large containers on the street, allows for not just a greater percentage of differentiated collection with better quality as well as a greater saving on the recovery of energy from materials that otherwise would be thrown away or burned and/or once more products in the production cycles (source: studio Tea-Mantova)
e) the economic damage from incinerators varies from 4 to 21 euro a ton handled, for landfill from 10 euro to 13 euro per ton handled (source studio: “Environmental impacts and costs of solid waste: a comparison of landfill and incineration” 2008-Ecole des Mines-Paris)
ZERO REFUSE IN THE 5 STAR TOWNS
Below are the steps to be taken to put in place a policy of zero refuse in your town:

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