FLORENCE, ITALY – In terms of trash collection taxes, Tuscan households paid the most at 992 euros per household per year, followed by those in Liguria (966 euros), Umbria (941 euros), Puglia (939 euros) and Campania (911 euros).
Residents of the northern Trentino Alto Adige region came in at the lowest end of the scale, with households paying just 111 euros in trash taxes a year.
According to a Demoskopika survey, Italian municipalities spent 21.2 billion euros on waste disposal from January 2014 through July 2016.
Town councils in Lombardy had the stiffest bills to pay (2.742 billion euros), followed by Lazio (2.653 billion) and Campania (2.461 billion). Together, these accounted for just under 40% of overall spending in the country in this sector.