by InTrieste
Residents of eastern Trieste, a district home to approximately 40,000 people, will soon have a dedicated facility for disposing of bulky and special waste, filling a gap in the city’s existing waste management infrastructure.
The new Giarizzole collection center, financed through a combination of one million euros from Italy’s National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) and an additional 800,000 euros from local utility Acegas, was completed just over a year after construction began. The center is scheduled to open on April 1 and will operate Monday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Designed with both efficiency and safety in mind, the facility allows residents to deposit waste into overhead containers, keeping them separate from the trucks that empty and replace the bins. City officials said the initiative is part of a broader effort to improve recycling rates in Trieste, which currently fall below 50 percent, compared with northern Italy’s average of more than 70 percent.
Since 2014, all of Trieste’s public bins have been organized into units that separate organic waste, paper, plastic, glass, and non-recyclable materials. The new center is expected to complement this system by providing a dedicated location for materials that do not fit into standard collection bins.
