@Nick
When it comes to waste separation and recycling our guests can do their “Master of Recycling” degree in our home! Our municipality runs a strict garbage disposal policy and we must comply.
We have to separate 6 different types of garbage:
- glass (in the blue bucket)
- plastic (only in the 110 l plastic bag signed Città di Arona)
- paper (in the yellow plastic box)
- metal (in a bucket of your choice, no plastic bag)
- bio (green bucket)
- not recyclable (only in the 30 l plastic bag signed Città di Arona).
One time a year you have to go to the municipality with your personal card to get a certain number of bags signed Città di Arona for free.
These distinct types of waste are collected in different days of the week with a door to door system. They tend to pass early in the morning so it’s best to put the waste out of the gate, by the external wall, on the evening before.
The collection of the different types of waste is scheduled on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday.
In the meanwhile there are smaller containers and bags available in the kitchen and the nearby closet for a temporary storage.
If you don’t separate the waste they don’t collect it and you will be fined.
I have a waste schedule in the kitchen in Italian, English and German. Most of my guests are of German language and they are used to separate the waste but they are always appalled at this system. I offer them to message the evening before the day of waste collection to remember them which kind of waste they have to take outside or otherwise let my neighbor come to put it outside.
Especially the bags for the non recyclable are small and this is a problem when I have guests with more than one infant. I remember guests (not from Airbnb) that had three infants, stayed four days and left over 60 diapers in the big 110 l bag for plastic. After checkout I had to separate all the diapers and put them into the smaller 30 l bags for non recyclable waste.
I also remember three ladies who wanted to give me all the stars they saw in the sky at night, except a few due to the waste collection system.
We pay a tax of 360 euro/year for the waste collection.
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