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A conspicuous amount of the stockbreeding and agricultural practices final waste and byproducts are often not valorized as resources as they could be.

This happens also in rural areas, where, due to the small scale manufactures and their decentralized location, the lack of dedicated infrastructures and the intricate bureaucratic systems of regulations, production waste is just a matter of finding the best inexpensive way to get rid of it.

Because the amount of waste/byproducts, not reusable in the original agricultural practice, is available in high amounts it should be considered by medium / small manufacturies as raw material.

In the area of Matese, there are tons of wasted materials coming from the wine, olive, corn and wheat cultures as well as from the stockbreeding practices, that end up in the local waste plant in Acerra. The final ashes coming out from the waste plant have still to be managed, it goes to landfills or is used in the concrete production.

In the specific case of the incinerator in Acerra, some of the ashes are transported hundreds of kilometers to north Italy, to be processed in other plants. A typical linear production system scenario, that in this case seems not to be efficient neither in terms of ecology not in terms of economy.

The leftover materials contain proteins or organic minerals and are perfectly reusable for the elaboration of new products and materials for various applications.