Share of sorted waste out of total waste in main Italian cities 2019-2023
Milan is the leading Italian city for waste sorting, with over 60 percent of waste sorted out of the total volume collected. While the volume of sorted waste in northern Italian cities is above 50 percent, this figure drops significantly in southern cities, such as Palermo (Sicily), where it amounted to only 18 percent in 2023. However, the share of waste sorted in Naples increased by roughly 10 percentage points between 2020 and 2021.