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Civic amenity sites

Efficient recycling and recovery requires an adequate infrastructure to perform door-to-door collection of the paper/cardboard, biowaste, packaging and possibly glass fractions. Civic amenity sites can constitute as a key complement to an effective source separation collection system.

Well-operating civic amenity sites are easily reachable and well connected to the road network. Citizens and small businesses can drop off there as many waste fractions as possible, which can be recycled or recovered at reasonable costs. Additionally, civic amenity sites can be complemented by mobile/temporary collection facilities at planned locations and times of the week, in order to increase the usability of such facilities by residents. The local authorities define the size, the location, the number of the collected waste fractions and other important operational parameters and provide clear instructions to the citizens.

Local authorities that are interested to develop well-operating civic amenity sites can take into account the following elements: 

  • presence of at least a civic amenity site in the local authority or regular periodical presence of a mobile site.
  • separate collection of as many fractions as possible and the possibility to drop off any household waste.
  • training of the staff of the civic amenity sites to maximise recycling, recovery and appropriate safe disposal.
  • watertight paved area and collection of run-off water for appropriate treatment.
  • proximity of the sites to citizens (e.g. accessible without a car by a large share of the population), also thanks to mobile/temporary collection sites.

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