Environmental protection in Italy

Where I live (oltrepò pavese), sorting waste is quite common. Paper, plastic, glass and organic waste is all separated. There are also containers for oil waste although I see less of them around.
In my neighbourhood, you can find any of these bins at a short walking distance. However, even though the bins are accessible, i have friends that throw everything in the same bin. At work, none of our waste is separated. We reuse paper but it's never recycled because the bins are too far away to recycle and no one is willing to carry bags of paper home to recycle it.

We all hate to see rubbish just laying around, we moan and tut, tut !! Unless we each make the effort not only to sort our own but make the effort at work, a rotor car trip to waste bins isn't too much.   We need to complain to local authorities whenever we see dumped  rubbish, take down number plates of those fly tipping.  If we don't make an effort we shall be knee deep in vermin and a lot worse!!