The issue of Municipal Solid Waste production can be converted into a development opportunity if the disposal paradigm is substituted by the management concept that is inspired to criteria of resource usage optimization. The MSW management can be optimized in order to reduce fresh raw materials and energy usage and to reuse/recycle of waste materials. Mostly, the treatment of biodegradable waste can be considered an important resource to produce high quality compost, biogas, heat and electricity. Within complex metropolitan areas, the neighbourhood scale, which is explored by the present research, can be considered as the basic spatial unit of interrelation. At the neighbourhood scale, in fact, the community can be easily involved and the “proximity principle” (which is invoked by a correct MSW management) can be efficiently implemented as well as the paradigm of self-sufficient energy can be more easily applied. Particularly, the suburban neighbourhoods represent fertile experimental cases where the projects of ecological infrastructures and of plants for the waste recycling and the energy recovering can become strategic opportunities to drive more sustainable actions of urban regeneration. Within this framework, the marginal and incomplete conditions of suburbs can be interpreted as occasions for new projects of sustainable development, with more degrees of freedom than central urban areas where the level of building density is higher. The paper proposes the implementation of an innovative and small size technology for the treatment of biodegradable waste materials with anaerobic bio-digester. It is a reproducible and scalable design and it is suitable to satisfy the neighbourhood instances. Through the collection of direct data, and the elaboration of the indirect ones that complete the qualitative and quantitative framework, the feasibility verification has been conducted. The comparison of three alternative scenarios has been allowed to make the cost-benefit analysis and to evaluate the production of renewable energy, the reduction of greenhouse gas emission and the energy consumption saving, with reference to Kyoto protocol objectives for the year 2020. The applicative aspects of the proposal have been developed in an emblematic neighbourhood case study: the public housing of Borgo Ulivia on the fringes of Palermo, in comparison with the metropolitan context and the pressing need to face the MSW management crisis in harmony with correct actions of urban regeneration.
I rifiuti possono trasformarsi da problema ad opportunità se si transita da un’amministrazione del consumo e dello spreco ad una gestione che si proponga l’ottimizzazione nell’uso delle risorse e la valorizzazione degli scarti. Il trattamento della frazione organica dei rifiuti per la produzione di biogas, calore di processo e compost di qualità può rappresentarne un aspetto di forte rilievo. La scala di quartiere, indicata nel lavoro di ricerca che viene presentato, può consentire, per certi versi, la scomposizione della complessa realtà metropolitana e la declinazione efficiente del paradigma del principio di prossimità, dell’autosostentamento e del coinvolgimento delle comunità locali per la gestione dei rifiuti, soprattutto nelle periferie e nelle aree marginali. Il quartiere può, infatti, rappresentare un laboratorio per la nuova infrastrutturazione delle aree urbane in chiave sostenibile; in esso il riciclo dei rifiuti e degli scarti e la riconversione energetica possono essere importante occasione di traino per più ampie azioni di riqualificazione e rigenerazione strategica delle periferie. In questo caso le condizioni di abbandono, di incompiutezza e di marginalità in cui versano le periferie possono essere rilette come occasioni di nuove progettualità e di sviluppo, con un margine di libertà che i quartieri consolidati nel loro grado di definizione non consentono. La ricerca ha preso avvio da una proposta riproducibile e rimodulabile di implementazione di tecnologie innovative per il trattamento dei rifiuti organici con impianti di bio-digestione anaerobica di piccole dimensioni ma idonei a soddisfare le istanze di un quartiere. Il percorso di ricerca ha condotto alla verifica della fattibilità della proposta attraverso il puntuale prelevamento di una messe di dati necessari e attraverso l’elaborazione di dati indiretti che completano il quadro quali-quantitativo di riferimento. La configurazione di scenari alternativi ha consentito, anche attraverso il confronto, di effettuare un’analisi costi-benefici ed una valutazione, avendo come riferimento gli obiettivi del protocollo di Kyoto che mirano nel 2020 alla produzione del venti per cento di energia da fonte rinnovabile, al venti per cento di abbattimento delle emissioni climalteranti e al venti per cento di risparmio sui consumi di energia. Gli aspetti applicativi sono stati sviluppati con un caso-studio emblematico implementando la proposta nel quartiere suburbano di edilizia residenziale pubblica di Borgo Ulivia a Palermo, nel confronto con l’attuale situazione metropolitana e territoriale e con la pressante necessità di far fronte all’urgenza senza venir meno alla possibilità di azioni per un corretto recupero urbano.
BONAFEDE, G., GRISANTI, F., MAMI', A. (2012). Green small technology for neighbourhood regeneration: a southern case-study.. In R. Di Giulio (a cura di), Improving the quality of suburban building stock. (pp. 381-386). Ferrara : Unifepress.
Green small technology for neighbourhood regeneration: a southern case-study.
BONAFEDE, Giulia;MAMI', Antonella
2012-01-01
Abstract
The issue of Municipal Solid Waste production can be converted into a development opportunity if the disposal paradigm is substituted by the management concept that is inspired to criteria of resource usage optimization. The MSW management can be optimized in order to reduce fresh raw materials and energy usage and to reuse/recycle of waste materials. Mostly, the treatment of biodegradable waste can be considered an important resource to produce high quality compost, biogas, heat and electricity. Within complex metropolitan areas, the neighbourhood scale, which is explored by the present research, can be considered as the basic spatial unit of interrelation. At the neighbourhood scale, in fact, the community can be easily involved and the “proximity principle” (which is invoked by a correct MSW management) can be efficiently implemented as well as the paradigm of self-sufficient energy can be more easily applied. Particularly, the suburban neighbourhoods represent fertile experimental cases where the projects of ecological infrastructures and of plants for the waste recycling and the energy recovering can become strategic opportunities to drive more sustainable actions of urban regeneration. Within this framework, the marginal and incomplete conditions of suburbs can be interpreted as occasions for new projects of sustainable development, with more degrees of freedom than central urban areas where the level of building density is higher. The paper proposes the implementation of an innovative and small size technology for the treatment of biodegradable waste materials with anaerobic bio-digester. It is a reproducible and scalable design and it is suitable to satisfy the neighbourhood instances. Through the collection of direct data, and the elaboration of the indirect ones that complete the qualitative and quantitative framework, the feasibility verification has been conducted. The comparison of three alternative scenarios has been allowed to make the cost-benefit analysis and to evaluate the production of renewable energy, the reduction of greenhouse gas emission and the energy consumption saving, with reference to Kyoto protocol objectives for the year 2020. The applicative aspects of the proposal have been developed in an emblematic neighbourhood case study: the public housing of Borgo Ulivia on the fringes of Palermo, in comparison with the metropolitan context and the pressing need to face the MSW management crisis in harmony with correct actions of urban regeneration.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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