Taking the students to the landfill—The role of universities in disseminating knowledge about waste management

Abstract

This paper reports the results of three years of work at the University of Florence dedicated to waste management and other sustainability-related activities. The rationale that guided this effort was to use the prestige of the University to disseminate knowledge about good practices of waste management with the local society. The results presented here are still preliminary, but we believe they are promising and worth of further exploration.