Introduction

The selective Door-to-Door collection service (“Porta a Porta”-Pap) consists of dumping waste – previously sorted at each one’s home – to the municipal collection service by placing it at the front door of your home, on certain days, and at certain times for each fraction.
It’s a model of selective collection of all municipal waste in which the holders of waste (citizens, businesses, etc…) sort the different waste fractions at source. However, instead of dumping them to permanent containers in the street, those different fractions are directly collected from the point of generation (home or business door) according to a pre-established schedule, and on which a minimum control and follow-up has to be possible.

With this Door-to-Door model, a selective collection of all municipal waste fractions can be done:

In order that the “door-to-door model works, we need to do a selective collection of all organic waste at each front door (from “FORM”).

Advantages
More regular and higher levels of selective waste collection.
The containers are removed from the street: We gain in public space and it’s cleaner. No bad smell comes off. A cleaning or maintenance service for containers is not needed.
An integrated model of selective collection.
Anonymity is no longer possible. Higher co-responsibility.
A nearer and more individualised collection: equipment, services and resources fitted to different types of waste and users.
A higher percentage of citizens participating in the selective collection.
A direct quality control.
A tax is applied according to waste generation.
A global decrease in municipal waste collection and, specifically, to the waste destined to final treatment. Non-municipal waste is reduced; we shouldn’t forget that, in the end, the municipality is the one responsible for it.
Generally, a higher quality in the collected fractions.
El coste del reciclaje tiende a ser menor y los ingresos mayores (sistemas integrados de gestión y venta de materiales).
El coste neto global, mayormente, es favorable.
The recycling costs tend to be lower and income higher (integrated management systems and sale of materials)
Disadvantages
It also includes each town council’s co-responsibility.
There is a more strict collection service.
It implies a change in most homes routines.
Waste must be kept at home until the day of its collection.
The costs for waste collection are the same or a bit higher (about 20%) than the real costs of selective collection with containers.

Advantages	Disadvantages
More regular and higher levels of selective waste collection.
The containers are removed from the street: We gain in public space and it’s cleaner. No bad smell comes off. A cleaning or maintenance service for containers is not needed.
An integrated model of selective collection.
Anonymity is no longer possible. Higher co-responsibility.	It also includes each town council’s co-responsibility..
A nearer and more individualised collection: equipment, services and resources fitted to different types of waste and users.	There is a more strict collection service.
A higher percentage of citizens participating in the selective collection.	It implies a change in most homes routines.
A direct quality control.	Waste must be kept at home until the day of its collection.
A tax is applied according to waste generation.
A global decrease in municipal waste collection and, specifically, to the waste destined to final treatment. Non-municipal waste is reduced; we shouldn’t forget that, in the end, the municipality is the one responsible for it.
Generally, a higher quality in the collected fractions.
The recycling costs tend to be lower and income higher (integrated management systems and sale of materials)	The costs for waste collection are the same or a bit higher (about 20%) than the real costs of selective collection with containers.
The global net cost is, mostly, beneficial.
Complementary systems of selective collection (waste plant fraction, bulky waste, special waste, etc…) tend to work better.

1. To promote in the Valencian Community a model of separate waste collection management called “Porta a Porta” (door-to-door) The aim is to achieve a more generalised citizen participation when sorting waste, both from its source as well as in its selective collection. This will allow to collect a higher quantity of recoverable waste, apart from a better quality out of it.

2. To provide information to all those who might be interested in the door-to-door waste collection model, specially other local entities (municipalities, associations of municipalities, consortiums, etc…), institutions, organizations, etc…

3. To establish a proper frame to enable a smoother exchange of experiences among all those municipalities that carry out this model of door-to-door collection.

4. To provide some material and resources to sort waste in a comfortable way: aired bins and buckets for organic waste, compostable bags, information leaflets and cards to remember the collection timetable, etc…, so associate members can have some financial and administrative savings, bearing in mind the current legislation about contracts.
5. To become a cleaner municipality: when all containers are removed from the streets, waste spillage and bad smells are avoided as well as some public space is gained.

6. To achieve a quality management of local waste, both from a political and a social point of view (acceptance, conflict minimisation and citizen cooperation), as well as technical (some objectives and some other clear and transparent criteria) and economical (optimisation and cost distribution, short and long term financing, etc…)

7. Finally, to further deepen citizen’s awareness about the problem of waste, in particular and about environment, in general.

What does it consist of?

What type of waste can be collected?

Objectives of the Porta a Porta waste collection model (PaP) (door-to-door)