Sustainable management of C&DW by the collection of the Amatrice earthquake's rubbles

On the 06/06/2017, the Lazio Region Administration approved an Act (n. G07943) to manage rubble and materials from the demolition of buildings and from emergency and reconstruction interventions, following the earthquake that hit the municipalities of Amatrice and Accumuli in August 2016. This set the assignment of the completion work of the waste separation, and loading, transportation, recovery and rubbish disposal service. The remaining buildings hit by the earthquake were demolished by providing strategic guidelines to the company, often acting in derogation, in the face of needs for immediate resolution. The rubbles were managed following 4 steps: 1) separation of waste from rubbish; 2) loading on means of transport; 3) transport to authorized plants; 4) recovery and disposal of rubbish in the same location. The separation of wastes from rubbles done by hand by operators in the field. At first Bulky waste CER 200307 and Wood CER 200 138 were separated and in a second step workers on a conveyor belt separated waste from rubble using a Mechanized roughing plant: Plastic CER 170203, Iron CER 170405, CER Card 150101, Textiles CER 200111. At the end of the process, only inert materials remain, characterized with CER 170904 and transported to the R10 environmental recovery plant to be recycled in gravel and other secondary raw materials, ready to be stocked in the market.