How Italy got its citizens — and me — to adopt a rigorous recycling scheme

How Italy got its citizens — and me — to adopt a rigorous recycling scheme

Of all the sources of culture shock I might have anticipated after my partner and I bought a home in 2022 in northern Italy, trash collection never crossed my mind. I didn’t know going in that Italy had become the top overall recycling country in the EU and one of the best for household-level recycling — in part by relying on those households to do a lot of the work. I quickly got my crash course. In short: In our town, Lesa, we have to sort tra…