{"id":369,"date":"2010-04-30T11:05:03","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T15:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.culturediscovery.com\/tuscany-umbria-cooking-vacation-blog\/?p=369"},"modified":"2019-04-23T22:55:24","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T22:55:24","slug":"implement-recycling-policy-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.culturediscovery.com\/blog\/culture\/implement-recycling-policy-town\/","title":{"rendered":"How (NOT) To Implement a Recycling Policy in Your Town"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 4<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

I’m a big fan of recycling, and I was really happy to hear that our town, Soriano nel Cimino, was planning on implementing a recycling program.  Better yet, it would include garbage pick-up. Cool!  The fact is, that much of Italy is full of litter, many towns have garbage bins that overflow, and the concept of responsible dissposal isn’t quite what I am accustomed to.  So this is fantastic, right?  Ummm… not so much.<\/p>\n

There is a popular joke that compares the strengths and weaknesses of various European societies.  It goes like this:<\/p>\n

Heaven is where the police are British, the chefs Italian, the mechanics German, the lovers French, and it’s all organized by the Swiss.<\/p>\n

Hell is where the police are German, the chefs are British, the mechanics French, the lovers Swiss, and it’s all organized by the Italians.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>If you are really familiar with these societies, this is quite funny.  The point here is that Italians are famous for being extremely disorganized, and that little problem often causes good ideas to turn into incredibly complicated nightmares.  The complexities cause people to ignore policy, and that causes the government to couple new programs with stiff non-compliance penalties.  So you end up with a bunch of complicated, impossible to understand or follow laws that have insane fines for non-compliance.  Such is my fear for our new recycling program that starts tomorrow.<\/p>\n

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