Waste management performance in Italian provinces: Efficiency and spatial effects of local governments and citizen action

Government’s Deficiency of Communication and the Impact on Stakeholder’s (Case of Yellow Waste WtE in Albania)

“…"In Albania during the last decades the environment was considered as the less important issue for the public opinion, behaving with nature and what surrounds us, as it is the property of nobody, meantime we should be aware that environment it is our common treasure and be the priority of a society" Lefter, Koka, former Minister of Environment 2014. 1 The NSWM and NPSM documents (2010-2025) are in a process of revising (since October 2017), by central government, as the institutional efforts to find the right economic instruments to promote recycling and prevent waste generation remain yet limited and are reported to have failed. Albanian central government have not adapted yet a tool to forecast waste production scenarios in years, which would help to predict waste, as an economic potential and also a clear picture of WtE facility's needs.…”

“…10 out of 10 in Q7 think that government mis-target actors involved on porpoise and not because of lack of capacities. In Albania there are reported successful approaches on this direction, the roadmap of Trans Adriatic Pipeline -TAP Albania as a corporate business Agovino et al (2018) propose that the waste management process is optimized when citizens and local government jointly adopt appropriate behavior. McCarthy (2004) suggests that WTE plant can be accepted by citizens if information, transparency, real involvement and proper communication in understandable language is done.…”

“…"We do not trust the promises of the Prefect. He didn't even accepted to make them public in media -citizens of Verria, one of the protest against WTE Plant (Fier, 21/11/2016) 1 Wiedemann and Femers (1993) propose that public participation procedures do not necessarily improve conflict resolution, or lead to better, more widely accepted decisions. On the contrary, in many cases the participation procedures themselves created new conflicts.…”

“…"In my whole 20 years of experience on waste management, based on different studies and Ph.D. thesis done for this purpose from a colleague of mine, the technology of landfilling with recycling result a lower cost process and more acceptable for the actual conditions of our country and the psychology of the citizens" -states Sazan Guri, Associated Professor, University 1 . Scientist and academics in waste management are less involved in WtE considerations in Albania by government at all levels.…”

“…M. Agovino et al (2018) suggests that in particular, the latter spoke of "crisis of democracy" in the waste management process that generated conflict between citizens and government. A thoroughly communication to reach at right levels public awareness and information dissemination should be developed and implemented properly, by government before decision making…”