| SISTRI, the New Italian Tracking System for Dangerous Waste |
| 15 February 2010 |
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Presented by IMELS
The Italian Ministry for the Environment Land and Sea (IMELS) recently presented a new system for the tracking of special waste on the Italian territory. The SISTRI project aims at following special waste all along their routes from production to the disposal sites, thus avoiding mishandling or frauds. The authority in charge of supervising the system is the Nucleo Operativo Ecologico (NOE), the branch of the Italian police dealing with environmental crimes. The use of electronic devices applied to trucks and containers will allow real time monitoring of the waste travelling along the country, while with the old system the data took several weeks to be communicated to all the institutions involved. The system has the main goal of monitoring the proper management of waste, but will moreover simplify bureaucratic procedures for firms and companies, and consequently help reducing the costs. Italy is the first European country to adopt such an innovative waste tracking system. Check the news: http://www.epractice.eu/en/news/305976 The official website (only in Italian): http://www.sistri.it/" |
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