(ANSA) – ROME, APRIL 20 – “With the ambitious goal of zero landfills in Rome, we have decided to build a publicly controlled waste-to-energy plant with the best industrial skills”. This was stated by the mayor of Rome, Roberto Gualtieri, during the extraordinary Capitoline Assembly on the management of the waste cycle and the industrial plan of Ama.
“We must equip ourselves with the plants necessary for the residual share of undifferentiated waste, even once the differentiated waste collection has been upgraded. The model we intend to follow is that of plants for the energy valorisation of waste and overcoming landfills. A publicly controlled waste-to-energy plant with the best technologies and synergies with companies “, added the mayor, explaining the decision to equip ourselves” with a waste-to-energy plant of 600 thousand tons per year that allows us to close the Tmb of Rocca Cencia and to cut down the current need for landfills by 90%. of a plant that will have a substantially zero environmental impact “.
“The new plant and our plan as a whole will result in a reduction in emissions of as much as 44%, with -15% for emissions from transport activities, -18% for plant engineering and -99% for landfill emissions” , has explained. “In addition, it will be possible to produce the electricity needs of 150,000 families a year and save the gas used by 60,000 families a year, with a very significant contribution also to policies to combat energy poverty and to the achievement of the reduction targets. emissions and greater autonomy of Italy – he explained -. The complete closure and autonomy of the waste cycle will also allow a real reduction in treatment costs, which will allow us to reduce the Tari by at least 20% and to the collection and cleaning activities of the city significantly “, he concluded.
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Source: Ansa
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