NAPLES, WASTE EVERYWHERE

Vincent Iurillo (www.ilfattoquotidiano.it)
The lady dressed in black has a small dog on a leash. She notices the reporter taking pictures of piles of garbage that polluted the center of Naples and , screaming. "You have to write it: from here to Berlusconi and Bassolino (former Naples mayor and former governor of Campania region) nothing has changed. Rubbish is the same as before. These potiticians were garbage before, and garbage are now.. Have you written?
There is tension between the Neapolitans. They look at the heaps of rubbish and they ask trivial. What happened to the miracle of Berlusconi? We had ensured that the crisis of the past were only a memory. After winning the election on the promise that never again would be repeated scenes of the third world in Bassolino era, The garbage is here again. The return to normal emergency.
TWO THOUSAND tons of bags occupying the sidewalks, preventing the car, spilling over into the streets, blocking the entrances of shops and hospitals. outside the Vecchio Pellegrini hospital, the amount of garbage is liable to hinder the operations of the ambulance to the emergency room. A Via Alcide De Gasperi, in the vicinity of the Guardia di Finanza, a stretch of sidewalk is impassable. A man eats an apple and throw the stalk bags on the bags to the ground. A via Marina trash bins are overflowing with vegetables and boxes on the market: wet wood andvegetables ferment well together with the warm sun in late October. A Toledo street in the heart of shopping, heaps of garbage almost obscure the great window of a mega store for children. Cross the platform and the same scene is repeated in front of a clothing store chain in Spain. It is almost impossible to get into it. "They do not take their garbage for a week" confirms an employee.
By a curious law of retaliation, the largest and most stinking mountains, which emerge from the ruins of cakes, card rooms and gaming bets, the tetra-pack fruit juice bottles and plastic baggy, have formed near the Palace the Province of Naples. That province whose president Luigi Cesaro (PDL) ( party of actual Government) is the man who by law should handle the waste cycle and Napoli ferry out of this new disaster. But the president has lowered the flag: a few weeks ago, threatened to resign if Guido bertolaso (the government responsible for emergencies who managed that one of one year ago) returns , yesterday issued a statement to say happy he arrived to manage the landfills. "There are days I say that one should not speak of the structural crisis and emergency. It is simply a matter of proper waste management. I look Bertolaso in Naples in the evenings - added Cesaro - to be operational immediately and send it in person all the initiatives already taken by the Province. "
What are these initiatives? In the provincial council has been able only to mention the enlargement of existing landfills. But then back down at the first signs of protest. He wrote that would do anything to prevent the opening of the second landfill site in the Vesuvius National Park. But failed to find alternatives. And now he gets angry with the other provinces who do not want to accept the garbage of Naples. A little 'bit.
While the stench of garbage wrapped Naples, Naples Mayor Rosa Russo Iervolino Pd ( party of opposition) convened a press conference to do what in ten years she does best: throw the ball in the stands and yell for help. "The Lord protect us," she said. Needed. "Enough with the lies - the Iervolino said - the crisis in waste disposal in Naples does not depend on Naples and its rate differential. The situation - according to the mayor - comes from so many lies, especially three. The triumphalism solemn ad of the Government ,a few months ago, "the crisis is over." "The crisis is the lack of waste in Naples, but we are 19%, and then - notes - to Palermo, which is 4%, it was blamed? E 'Napoli does not want to make a separate' but give us our money spent on those other institutions, the Region and the Province. "
NINETEEN million euro that the '"governmental"' Caldoro Stefano and Luigi Cesaro not disengage. At the moment, the sorted waste in Naples are only 135,000 inhabitants in a million. Sin in the few districts where it is active, the sorted achieve excellent results. All this on an area that has the highest percentage of urban-waste workers per capita in Italy. The accounts never return. The Iervolino but said he was "disappointed by the lack of solidarity from the other provinces." "I must give credit to Caldoro - said the mayor - that he had the courage to exercise the powers authorized replacement spill in three other provinces but it is ridiculous that the mayors of those countries to rebel because they were asked to help for five days" . "We can not do 'woof' in Northern League and the northern provinces where no help for five days - added -. Is to say, 'Lord, Keep us a hand on his head (protect us, note) and hope that nothing serious happens to us because if we are at these levels there is no possibility of help in any way. " Amen.