One of those things you just don’t think about…
When planning your trip to beautiful Florence, you are usually too busy planning your museum visits, restaurant lists and hopeful day trips to think about the everyday things like how to take out the trash. And while not overly complicated in nature, the Italian system isn’t quite as simple as leaving a few garbage cans at the end of your driveway.
So here are some helpful tips if you’re staying in an apartment (as we highly recommend!), you follow your neighborhood residential agreements for trash and recycling.
1. If you are staying outside the main city center, your mixed trash (non recyclables) should be collected and stored in plastic bags. When they’re full, simply tie them up and take them to the grey bins with the blue tops located on most main streets and throughout neighborhoods.
2. If you're in the city center area around the Duomo, Piazza della Repubblica, etc, there are no grey bins in the streets. You can leave your non recyclables outside the building from 7:30 - 8:30 or 19:30 - 20:30 (except on holidays). Paper in the center can be left outside once a week in the evening (usually at 20.30) and you can find out the exact day and time by selecting your street on: http://www.quadrifoglio.org/servizi/raccolta.php
To Recycle Outside of the Immediate Center:
2. You can recycle paper, newspaper, magazines, books and crushed cans by separating them and taking them to yellow bins.
3. Organic materials such as food waste can be placed in a separate bag and taken to the bins with the brown lids.
4. In the blue dome bins, you can recycle the following: glass, bottles, mesh bags, cellophane, nylon parts, aluminum cans and trays, food jars, metal containers, containers for milk, wine, juice and tomato paste. These blue bins do not accept plastic plates or utensils, ceramic, pottery, china, toys, clothes, CDs or DVDs, lamps or light bulbs.
The grey bins with blue lids for mixed trash are easy to find throughout the city streets. The blue domes and other bins can be a bit harder to find, but they are there.
Now you know!
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By Admin Apartments Florence (11/2/2010 11:02:23 AM, in Life & Culture, read 1,039 times)
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