Systemic food wastage in the Italian food system amounts to 66% of the total food energy produced. There has been a 17% increase in food wastage compared to 2015, measured in kilocalories per person per day. This situation remains far from institutional targets of halving or significantly reducing food wastage by 2030.

Internal Material Consumption (IMC) measures the apparent consumption of material resources within an economy. It is the main indicator derived from material flow accounts, used to assess a country's resource Productivity as part of policies on natural resource use. In 2023, Italy's Internal Material Consumption amounted to 498.4 million tonnes (-2.7% compared to the previous year), and Resource Productivity stood at 3.59 EUR/kg (+3.7% compared to the previous year).

The indicator quantifies the extraction of natural resources - biomass, metallic minerals, non-metallic minerals, and fossil fuels - globally, due to the final consumption and investments of households, businesses, and public administrations in Italy. In 2023, Italy's material footprint amounted to 656.1 million tons, or 11.1 tons per capita.

The indicator measures the total quantity of special waste sent for recovery operations (R1-R12) as defined in Annex C of Legislative Decree 152/2006. In 2022, the amount of recovered special waste was significant, accounting for 73.3% of the total managed waste (176.6 million tons), with a continuously increasing trend (+13% in the last three years). The total quantity of recovered special waste amounts to 129.4 million tons, of which 4.2 million tons are hazardous. The region with the highest quantity of recovered special waste is Lombardy (28% of the total recovered), followed by Veneto (10.9%) and Emilia-Romagna (9.2%). 

The indicator monitors the impact of tourism on the territory in terms of both volume (arrivals) and the burden placed on the area (overnight stays). It highlights how some regions and autonomous provinces experience high "arrivals per inhabitant" and "overnight stays per inhabitant" ratios, such as Valle d'Aosta (10.9 and 30.0) and the Autonomous Province of Bolzano (15.7 and 67.2), compared to the national average of 2.3 and 7.6, respectively. In 2023, all values increased and surpassed those recorded in 2019.

The data collected provide an overview of the educational and training provision on specialised environmental topics offered by the National Environmental Protection System (SNPA), which comprises the Regional and Provincial Environmental Protection Agencies (ARPA/APPA) and ISPRA. This provision includes both training courses and work-based learning pathways (such as curricular and extracurricular internships, as well as Pathways for Transversal Skills and Career Guidance – PCTO). In 2023, there was a slight increase in the number of environmental training courses activated within the SNPA (204), compared to the previous year. With regard to training methodologies, the trend noted in the previous year continued, with a renewed emphasis on in-person residential training, likely due to the reduced risk of Covid-19 transmission. Both PCTO programmes and internships saw further growth in 2023 compared to the previous survey. A total of 285 internships were activated, while 2,017 students participated in PCTO programmes during the 2022/2023 school year.

The indicator aims to provide a quantitative estimate of the contribution of tourists to daily potable water consumption.

In 2022, at the national level, the recorded tourist movement consumed 4 liters of potable water per capita equivalent per day.

Between 2015 and 2018-2020, a growth in consumption was recorded, increasing from 3.7 to 4 liters per capita equivalent, followed by a sharp drop in 2020, an anomaly attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic, which halted global travel.

National municipal waste (MW) generation in 2023 amounts to approximately 29.3 million tonnes, marking a 0.7% increase (approximately +218,000 tonnes) compared to 2022.

As of 31 December 2023, the number of organizations listed in the EMAS register, excluding cancellations and suspensions, reaches 1,127. This figure confirms a recovery trend compared to 2018, with a +16.8% increase. The total number of new EMAS certificates issued to organizations/companies is 2,244. The sectors with the highest adoption include: Waste and Material Recovery, Energy, Services for Buildings and Landscapes, Public Administration, Specialized Construction Works, and Wholesale Trade. The leadership of the Central-Northern regions is reflected in regional measures supporting EMAS. The most active regions are Lombardy, Emilia-Romagna, Tuscany, and Lazio. In terms of EMAS registrations by type of organization, the situation remains largely stable in recent years, with a balanced distribution across small, medium, and large enterprises.

In 2023, the preparation for re-use and recycling rate—calculated using Methodology 4 and excluding construction and demolition (C\&D) waste from household sources—stood at 50.8%, thus exceeding the 50% target set for 2020.

Nel 2023, la percentuale di raccolta differenziata è pari al 66,6% della produzione nazionale (29,3 milioni di tonnellate) (+1,4 punti percentuali rispetto al 2022), mantenendosi al di sopra dell’obiettivo fissato dalla normativa per il 2012 (65%).

Tourism is crucial for European economies, but a compromised environment could endager its future, as the main attraction of tourism lies in a clean and preserved environment. This indicator analyzes emissions generated by tourist travel in Italy. Among the various road transport modes, cars contribute the most to all pollutant emissions, with 2022 values ranging from 76.8% for PM2.5 to 95.8% for VOCs. The use of campers, caravans, and vans, on the other hand, mainly affects PM2.5 (19.7%) and NOx emissions (14.3%).

The circular material use rate measures the share of material resources reused by an economy. In the period 2004–2022, Italy's circular material use rate increased from 5.8% to 18.7%.