Events and News

Plastic, bioplastic, riplastic or Noplastic

The webinar aims to share and discuss the different possibilities of sustainable and innovative solutions that involve the use of plastics and towards recovery-oriented production and consumption. Furthermore, the webinar will also represent a moment of exchange of scientific knowledge between the different institutions working in the sector, researchers, entrepreneurs and experts.

Presentation Municipal Waste Report edition 2020

On 29 December at 10 am live on the web site Ricicla TV ISPRA will present the Municipal Waste Report edition 2020

Now in its twenty-second edition, the report is the result of a complex activity of data collection, analysis and processing in implementation of a specific institutional task provided for by art. 189 of Legislative Decree no. 152/2006

Presentation of the Report Ecomafia 2020

The stories and numbers of environmental crimes in Italy
On 11 December Legambiente will present the annual report regarding to environmental illegalities. For over twenty-five years the research has been carried out in cooperation with all the law enforcement agencies (Anti-Mafia Investigative Directorate, Carabinieri Arma, Financial Police, State Police, Forestry Corps of the Regions with special statute), with the Port Authorities and with other judicial police bodies such as Customs and Monopoly Agencies.

Presentation "Recycling in Italy. Report 2020"

The annual report on waste recycling and recovery, produced by the Foundation for Sustainable Development and FISE UNICIRCULAR, achieves this year its eleventh. The Report presentation event, organized with the patronage of the Italian Ministry of the Environment and ISPRA, will be held on 10 December 2020 in live streaming, from 10.00 to 12.30.

Marine litter: from fishermen to guardian of the sea

The event is part of the Sealogy exhibition that aims to promote good practices and experiences on Blue economy, an opportunities also for companies and allo the stakeholders involved in this field.
The webinar is dedicated to marine pollution and the collection of waste at sea. An opportunity for discussion and exchange on projects, on initiatives in the field but also on the critical issues in the collection of marine waste.

EcoForum. Circular economy business: rules, plants and products

Legambiente, Nuova Ecologia and Kyoto Club, in cooperation with CONOU and with the patronage of the Italian Ministry of the Environment, Land and Sea is organizing the seventh edition of EcoForum, the national conference on the circular economy. At the end of the two days of work, the XXVII edition of Comuni Ricicloni takes place, the awarding of the Free Waste Municipalities.

The Waste factor(y)

As part of the Sustainable Architecture Festival "Change", financed by Mibact and promoted also by Open House, MAXXI, Order of Architects of Rome, the online event The Waste factor (y) will faced the municipal waste topic.
An ISPRA expert from the National Waste and Circular Economy Center will participate in the brainstorming.

Green Book 2020: data on the urban waste management in Italia and the new aspects introduces by the normative

Now in its eighth edition, the Green Book 2020, published by the Utilitatis Foundation, represents an important monograph on the municipal waste sector in Italy. The publication offers an overview of the regulatory, organizational and economic aspects of the management of the urban waste cycle in Italy, taking into account also  the international context.

The Italian HUB for the BLUEMED initiative Pilot “Towards a Healthy plastic-free Mediterranean Sea”

The BlueMed Pilot action, launched in 2018 is aimed to mapping and asses the actions of marine pollution related to plastic waste in UE and extra UE in the Mediterranean area to promote good practices and awareness towards citizens. 

XXXII edition of Festambiente

The national event of Festambiente, organized by Legambiente will held in Ripescia (GR) from 19 to 23 August.

Fuel pellets Gulf of Follonica

Ispra and Arpa Toscana are working with the members of the National Civil Protection Service to ensure the removal of the bales fuel pellets  dispersed in the Gulf of Follonica following the accident of the "IVY" motor ship, which occurred in July 2015.

Signing up to the Newsletter of the "Plastic Blusters MPAs" project

The 4-year project, started on 1 February 2018, is financed by the European Community INTERREG MED Cooperation and is coordinated by ISPRA. For the first time on a Mediterranean scale, EU countries and accession states join forces to tackle marine litter with a coordinated approach.

End of waste and by-products: solutions for a circular economy suistainable and efficacious

In order to close the circular economy cycle, it is necessary to work on the tools that can give operators certainty regarding  by-product qualification of the production residues that they generate and the cessation of the waste qualification at the end of a recovery process, so that these materials can effectively return to the market

Epidemiological emergency, Covid-19 and waste cycle

The Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry into illegal activities related to the waste cycle and environmental crimes (Ecomafie Commission) unanimously approved the report "COVID-19 epidemiological emergency and waste cycle".
A meeting will be held on Wednesday 15 July at Palazzo San Macuto to present the Commission's report.

Press conference: the public campaign of the Italian Ministry of the Environment on the correct disposal of gloves and masks

The communication campaign of the Ministry of the Environment was presented at a press conference in Rome, in collaboration with the Coast Guard, Ispra, Iss, Enea and the Colao commission - the first live post-Covid - by Minister Sergio Costa, at the headquarters of the Command General of the Coast Guard. Three points on which he focuses: throwing masks and gloves in the undifferentiated, use as much as possible of the reusable ones, do not throw them on the ground to avoid serious damage to the environment. The President of Ispra and SNPA, Stefano Laporta, said that "Ispra and the National System for Environmental Protection" adhere to this campaign which mainly appeals to the civic sense of each of us. The numbers are clear: in Italy there is a daily production of waste from masks equal to about 410 tons, with an average value for the end of 2020 of 100,000 tons of waste. The production of glove waste at the end of the year will be of an average value of 200,000 tons. These numbers must necessarily lead us to responsible behavior towards the environment".

Doubling recycling across Europe is feasible, for certain waste streams

Project of the Police Headquarters of Ferrara "Pure Clear Safe Water"

Hub Tecnologica Campania

The Hub Tecnologica Campania was founded in full synergy with the Ministry of the Environment, Land and Sea, Ispra, the Extraordinary Commissioner for the Reclamation of Abusive Landfills, and with the participation of all the main public and private players, national and international, in order to promote the value of land rehabilitation and environmental recovery in Campania.

Presentation of the SOER 2020, Environmental Data Yearbook and System Reports

The next 3 June, in video streaming with the Italian PM Giuseppe Conte, and David Sassoli, President of the European Parliament, will be presented the three reports dedicated to the environmental situation in Europe and in Italy: the SOER 2020 (State of the Environment Report), the Environmental Data Yearbook 2019 which shows the state of the environment in Italy and the System Report which presents regional experiences.

Watch streaming live:

ISPRA TV (double channel in English and Italian) 

Facebook page Ispra (speaker' native language)

 Youtube Ispra (only in italian)

Presentation Report on Waste from Economic Activities - 2020

The special waste report, now in its nineteenth edition, is the set of complex activities of collection, analysis and processing of data by the ISPRA National Center for Waste and Circular Economy, with the contribution of regional and Provincial for the Protection of the Environment, in implementation of a specific institutional task foreseen by the art.189 of the legislative decree n. 152/2006. The Special Waste Report - 2020 Edition provides the data, for the year 2018, on the production and management of special non-hazardous and hazardous waste, at national and regional level, The Conference, in the presence of the Minister of the environment, represents an opportunity to discussion with the main stakeholders on how the waste management system is reacting to the Covid-19 emergency.

Risk analysis of contaminated sites: opportunities and prospects 10 years after the "Methodological criteria"

Roma, 11 Febraury

In the assessment and management of contaminated sites, site-specific risk analysis represents a very important decision-making tool that allows to establish the contamination status of an area, the possible need for remediation and safety measures, and also purposes of human health protection and environmental resources. The manuals "Methodological criteria for the application of the absolute risk analysis of contaminated sites" and "Methodological criteria for the application of the absolute risk analysis to landfills" were the first examples of sharing and homogenization of technical / scientific procedures at national level in environmental matters between APAT (now ISPRA) and regional agencies for environmental protection.

AmbientiAMOci: environmental education project in primary school