The SISTRI (Waste Tracking System) is an information system wanted by the Italian Ministry of Environment to monitor hazardous and non-hazardous waste’s traceability. The project started in 2009, with the intent of innovating and modernize the Public Administration, with the computerization of the waste chain at a national level, and of the Campania Region’s urban waste.
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The SISTRI is meant to simplify the existent paper process, which is not capable of giving information on the movement in real time, but only delayed data of often days or weeks.
The introduction of the computerized system would provide a number of benefits:
Problems designing and implementing the system
Due to a series of problems of design and implementation, users testing the system before the official launching date, lamented a serious of defect on the operability of it. The original launch date was set to October 1, 2010. It was then postponed to December 31, 2010, then to May 31, 2011, lastly to September 1, 2011.
System Abolition
On August 13, 2011, few days before the last postponed launching date, the Italian Government with an Executive Order, abolished the SISTRI System.