The Landfilling of Municipal Solid Waste and the Sustainability of the Related Transportation Activities

The management of municipal solid waste is a crucial issue to address as we move toward the decarbonization urban contexts. Not by chance, this sector plays relevant role in Covenant Mayors program, whereby municipalities are called design their own Sustainable Energy Action Plans (SECAPs). However, despite new regulations strongly pushing recycling and reuse materials contained waste, many cities still use large landfills. As part overall environmental pressure exerted these systems, transport from collection points landfills or treatment facilities must be considered order correctly assess full burden management. To aim, paper, Ecological Footprint method applied system city Palermo (Sicily). results show that impacts produced means used, both status quo assumed enhanced scenario (with less disposed favor recycling), significant compared those caused other segments system. concept “saved footprint” also introduced here, properly compare two scenarios.