Municipal Waste Management by Savno in Eastern Veneto

Separate collection (SC) of household waste is an essential instrument to transform the problem of their management into an environmental, economic and social advantage. The purpose of this paper is to present the case of the Savno company, that has an integrated management system (UNI EN ISO 9001:2008, UNI EN ISO 14001:2004, BS OHSAS 18001:2007), and manages the environmental services of 42 municipalities. In particular the case of the municipality of Fregona (Treviso, Italy) is shown. In 2008 Savno adopted in full the so-called “door to door system” (DtD) for the SC of all the commodity-related fractions, with the consequent removal of the street containers, so that people are more responsible towards municipal waste management. This might be applied also to other areas of Italy, avoiding heavy environmental troubles and problems for human health, increasing the efficiency of the offered service and obtaining a control of management costs.