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The green model of circular districts

“Waste is the new oil” explains Fabrizio Di Amato, Chairman of Maire
Tecnimont, in this interview.
“By implementing mechanical recycling of plastics and promoting chemical
recycling, we are shaping an economy designed to regenerate itself,
Simultaneously helping the reconversion of industrial sites in the petrochemical
and steel industries”

long the path to get out of the Covid- «By implementing the mechanical recycling of plastics,
19 emergency and relaunch the and promoting the chemical one at the same time, we
economy, the strategies that look are able to shape an economy designed for self-
toward the sustainable goals of the regeneration - explains Fabrizio Di Amato, Chairman of
United Nations shift the focus from a Maire Tecnimont -. This is in essence an existential
A linear economy to a circular one, transformation». According to the report of the World
based on a system designed to reuse materials in Bank “What a Waste 2.0”, every year we generate
subsequent production cycles, reducing waste and the about two billion tons of waste. «If we don’t take urgent
supply of virgin raw materials to an absolute minimum. action by 2050, with the increase in global population

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