ANPAR, which is part of Assoambiente, shares the fears of the experts on the new Decree End of Waste
L’End of wastethat is the Termination of the qualification of refusalrefers to the procedure for which a refusalsubjected to a recovery process, loses the qualification of waste to acquire that of product. The new Decree of the Ministry of Ecological Transition of 27/09/2022 n. 152 regulates, among others, the specific purposes of usability, the declaration of conformity, the method of holding the samples and the management system.
But the industry players are on the alert and they say: “For avoid the collapse of the aggregate recycling sector you need to start a ministerial table to verify the monitoring criteria“. The new legislation, in fact, condemns about 32 million tons of waste ending up in landfills, effectively blocking the recycling chain. The basic error reported by the operators is that the new regulation does not make any distinction on the basis of the uses for which the aggregates are intended, in contrast with the UNI product standards that regulate their uses.
Also ANPARthe National Association of Recycled Aggregates Producers, which is part of Assoambientecomments: “We ask the Ministry of Ecological Transition for the immediate convening of a table to agree on the launch and methods of verifying the monitoring criteria“.
According to ISPRA data, the inert recovery sector manages about 48% of the special waste produced nationwide and, to date, it had reached and exceeded the recycling targets set by the EU, reaching a 78% recovery rate.
These results are threatened by the regulation long awaited by the entire supply chain, which in fact introduces parameters, requirements and controls that translate into one national restrictionnot actually justified by reasons of public interest linked to the protection of the environment or health.
Furthermore, the opening introduced by the Ministry of Ecological Transition with a transition of six months for the verification of the End of Waste criteria overlaps with the transitional period for the necessary adjustment of the authorization measures in place, generating a regulatory hitch.
If you do not intervene with a quick clarification on the matterthe plants will be prevented from continuing their activities and from continuing not only with the recovery of this waste, but also with the transfer of inert waste, if they do not comply with the new regulatory provisions.
ANPAR, which shares the attention to the parameters with potential impact on human health and the environment, believes that a rapid assessment of the concrete effects of these prudential limits on the effectiveness of the circular economy mechanism activated by the regulation, to avoid the effects of a sharp reduction in the quantities of this waste actually sent for recovery.
This would have direct repercussions on the entire construction sector, from the recovery of aggregates to construction sites for the implementation of the strategic works plan envisaged in the PNRR.
Heavy will be the management repercussions of the norm: about 80% of inert waste, recovered today, will end up in landfills (about 32 million tons of non-hazardous inert waste), not counting theimpact occupational, with thousands of employees who will lose their jobs, e the economic onewith hundreds of millions of turnover lost in the recycling chain.
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