ECOSITING: A sit platform for planning the integrated cycle of urban waste: The case of study of the city of Rome

Urban planning has long been introduced into the territorial classification elements as belonging to integrated waste cycle management. Within such framework, types of urban hygiene are defined and described. In particular, the General Regulatory Plan of the City of Rome has established that areas and facilities for separate collection of waste belong to the secondary urbanization works to be identified by executive planning, as well as for temporary collection, compacting and conveying inert and bulky waste. The aim of this research is to find a shared method of selection and siting of areas compatible with the various “objects” of the integrated cycle: decentralized territorial offices, municipal collection centers, reuse centers, eco-plots, urban waste valorization plants, defined as nodes, spots, targets for a GIS based planning method. This study proposes the translation into an algorithm of operational research the needs of localization of areas to be used for infrastructure and urban hygiene, taking into account the structural and authorization factors, but also the anthropic factors. Once a sufficiently populated territorial database has been set up, thematic cartographies are developed as a decision support in the integrated cycle planning, moving away from subjective and improvised methods. From the General Regulatory Plan, the Solid Waste Urban Planning is completed so that its infrastructure can be integrated as much as possible with the urban and living needs of the citizens, reporting the operations and activities related to waste cycle within the daily metabolism of the city organism.