Title: From a smoke-free policy to an end of waste proposal at the University of Milano-Bicocca

Biography:

Massimiliano Rossetti is sustainability specialist at the University of Milano-Bicocca. He is an urban sociologist with particular attention to mobility analysis and the socio-urban structure of the territory with the use of GIS tools. Its fields of interest and study concern the field of sustainability: from waste to mobility and from food policy to life quality in urban societies. He also cooperates in the field of air quality and climate change with the researcher’s team of the POLARIS Research Center - Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of Milano-Bicocca. He is member of the Italian University Network for Sustainable Development (RUS), International Sustainable Campus Network and the Italian Interdisciplinary Committee on Waste and Health (CIRS).

Abstract

The sustainability team of the University of Milano-Bicocca promotes healthy life style for students and staff. Starting from 2019, the University introduced a Smoke-free policy within the whole campus in order to avoid littering phenomena and preserve the students and staff wellbeing. Coherently to the prohibition, few smoking areas have been settled far from the entrances in order to let to the smokers a delimitated space. These smoking areas have been equipped with benches and ballot bins with the scope to attract smokers and keep streets clean.