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Waste management and sustainability: Unipd signs protocol with municipality and Acegas
The University, the Municipality of Padua and the AcegasApsAmga group have signed a collaboration protocol for waste management and monitoring: planning and improvement activities related to this issue will be initiated in areas and facilities linked to the University.
The Protocol is part of the UniPadova Sostenibile initiatives, a five-year project in which the University of Padua is committed to promoting the achievement of the objectives of the UN 2030 Agenda, towards a sustainable society in many respects.
As the university of Padua’s vice-chancellor for construction and safety, Francesca Da Porto, explains: “This protocol stems from our desire, together with that of the municipality and AcegasApsAmga, to work on the waste chain with the aim of reducing it, managing purchases consciously and focusing on minimising packaging. An experimental campaign will also be launched to introduce a series of experimental bins within the university grounds, on which a product analysis can be carried out. The aim is to facilitate the transition to door-to-door collection and to be able to control the type of waste that we as a non-residential service business produce. Another important point of the Protocol is the promotion, communication, training and awareness-raising activities we are working on jointly with the municipality and AcegasApsAmga”.
“Collaterally to this Protocol,” continues Vice-Chancellor Da Porto, “we are moving as a University in this area, through the reduction of plastics and on the other hand, with the ‘Plastic Free University’project, to the ‘green’ purchases that are fundamental to reducing waste, purchasing services and goods that are increasingly respectful of the environment”.
During the press conference presenting the Protocol, The Councillor for Labour and Employment Policies, the Environment, Green Areas, Parks and Agriculture, Chiara Gallani, renewed the Municipality’s commitment to support these initiatives: “We are committed to reducing waste production and improving waste quality, also on the assumption that there aresensitive points in the city, with their own characteristics: one of them is the university. Being part of our urban context, we decided to collaborate in this experimental project in view of a wider, city-wide planning”.
The AcegasApsAmga group, in the person of Managing Director Roberto Gasparetto, bases its operations on a circular economy perspectiveThe operation we are starting aims to turn what is waste if it is not managed correctly into a resource. With the techniques used by our group, we can regenerate these materials and put them back into the circuit, with a view to a circular economy, which is one of the objectives of our work”.
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