Valori Ritrovati
As part of the promotion of territorial development through initiatives of social inclusion and solidarity, the "Valori ritrovati" initiative continued in 2024, a circular economy project carried out in cooperation with Fondazione Caritas Roma Onlus, which aims to give a new life to so-called "anonymous parcels" and "abandoned parcels", all those parcels that could neither be delivered to the recipient nor returned to the sender, and would therefore be disposed of and sent to the scrap heap. By contrast, with this project, they are handed over to the Fondazione Caritas Roma Onlus, which, through its Empori or Mercatini della Solidarietà (Solidarity Markets), redistributes them to needy individuals and families or resells them at subsidised prices for a charitable purpose, hence supporting projects for the employment of people in difficulty. Together with the Caritas volunteers, the employees of Poste Italiane are also an active part of the project, who have chosen to dedicate their time to this initiative by joining the corporate volunteering. Thanks to their support, Poste Italiane from 2019 to 2024 over the five years of the project has reused about 374,000 items and recovered 196 tonnes of goods that would otherwise have gone to waste. In the course of the next few years, the project may be extended to other third sector players, so as to expand the number of resulting charitable initiatives.