Marco has 20 years of experience as an independent consultant in planning MSW management, designing and upgrading of collection and transport schemes, assessing recycling facilities (focus on composting), planning communication and participation initiatives, chairing multi-linguistic, multi-tasking working groups or projects. Marco is also acting as senior expert at CIC - Italian Composting and Biogas Association (www.compost.it) and contributes proactively to ISWA (http://bit.ly/2gkanPA) being the chairman of the international working group on biological treatment of waste at ISWA.
Marco Ricci-Jürgensen explains how the Italian island of Pantelleria has become a beacon of best practice for the collection, handling and recycling of municipal solid waste on small islands with economies heavily based on tourism.
In February 1997 the Italian national Decree n° 22 was adopted reorganising the framework conditions and the strategic outlook for MSW. Today Italy collects separately 48% of all MSW with peaks of around 70%.