The Ecology sector is the Cooperative’s boast; in the last years it has shown a great evolution thanks to an awareness campaign for environment and sustainable development, that has allowed unthinkable investments until not long ago.

In the province of Brescia (in the North of Italy) Solidarietà Provagliese has been the first one to provide a door to door separate waste collection of non-recyclable waste (RSU), kitchen waste (FORSU) and recyclable items (such as paper - glass - can - plastic packaging and garden waste) and to remove dustbins in the area; consequently it has obtained immediately good results: the average recycled material rate has been constantly about 80% of the collected waste.

The high percentage reached is due to special motor vehicles, projected and realized to make waste collection easier, and to the efficient management of municipal waste recycling centres.

With proud we want to list some data about the ecological service provided by Solidarietà Provagliese:

1) the most important services are  

• door to door separate waste collection of both non-recyclable and recyclable items
• waste recycling centres’ management
• streets’ sweeping by sweeper and leaf blower

The municipalities we serve in the integrated urban hygiene management activity are: Adro, Castel Mella, Fiesse, Gambara, Pralboino, Monticelli Brusati, Provaglio d’Iseo and Palazzolo s/o. Solidarietà Provagliese is also responsible for emptying and maintaining the public litter bins of the following town: Cazzago San Martino, while in the Municipality of Pontoglio the mechanical sweeping service is carried out.

The Cooperative’s street cleaners employed nowadays are about 70. It should be highlighted that, given the sensitivity towards the issue of gender equality, the cooperative has been working in recent years to include female quotas also in the workforce of the ecological sector.

Here the Municipalities we provide waste service to: