Irsina is launching a door-to-door rubbish collection service next month to help homeowners separate household waste for recycling.The garbage recycling project starts in some sectors of the village on February 1st. It will expand in coming weeks and months to the rest of the town.
 
Under the plan for Irsina to go green, rubbish is divided into various groups: these include food waste; paper material; glass and metals; plastics; and non-recyclable waste. Non-recyclables include items such as lipsticks, cotton wool buds, broken toys and the like.
 
Homeowners need to pick up their recycling kit from the local city council offices. The kit includes two special purpose bins, various types of bags for the differentiated rubbish, and a calendar indicating which bin needs to be placed outside the house on the street for pick up on what day. Also included is a little “rubbish encyclopaedia” listing the various types of rubbish and the categories they fall under. In addition, free phone numbers will be included for the retrieval of large or special items of rubbish, such as electrical goods, furniture etc.

The door-to-door service was initially trialled in larger Italian cities such as Rome and Milan, and is slowly being rolled out to the rest of the country. It is estimated that food waste in Italy makes up around 30 per cent of each household's daily waste.