Tom Peel

laura wrote:
    > I was just in Naples earlier this month and I was shocked by the
    > amount of litter in the streets. I am a first generation
    > Italian/American on my mother's side, second generation on my father's
    > side (so I'm 1.5 generation - I guess), my family (both sides) was
    > originally from the Naples area but they have mostly moved to Rome, so
    > when I go to Italy to visit, it is usually to Rome. I always remember
    > hearing 'Naples is dirty' but I never expected what I saw there. It
    > really made me sad. How long has it been this bad?
    >
    > Laura

The first thing I noticed getting off the plane in Naples was the smell
of burning garbage.
I have a vague memory of some notso recent newsitems concerning Naples
- a garbage collector's strike
- a local civic scandal about a garbage disposal plant either not
working or costing too much

Maybe one of our Italian friends can provide some info.

It certainly struck me that in southern Italy, the garbage situation is
much worse than other areas. Trash containers stand in the sun for weeks
without being emptied, and piles of garbage are just tipped in the
fields and burnt. Tuscany in contrast is an absolute dream of hygenic
tidyness.

T.

Alan Harrison

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    > It certainly struck me that in southern Italy, the garbage situation is
    > much worse than other areas. Trash containers stand in the sun for weeks
    > without being emptied, and piles of garbage are just tipped in the
    > fields and burnt. Tuscany in contrast is an absolute dream of hygenic
    > tidyness.

I was reading an article about this just the other day in the Guardian.
There are problems about a proposed incinerator at Acerra, and it appears
that the Camorra is also making huge sums of money through "assisting" in
disposing of waste illegally.

Alan Harrison

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If you think Naples is bad, you should have seen it in the 1960s!
Giovanni

Mimi Forsyth

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What is bad?????? What was so bad in the 1960s???


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