Robert Farnsworth
Professor Scalia, Campania is again struggling with the garbage emergency. In Naples there is a growing amount of garbage in the streets. The citizens of Terzigno are in revolt against the opening, the park of Mount Vesuvius, Europe's largest landfill. Choice also pay the EU. Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi puts the responsibility on local government of Campania, speaks of "mismanagement" and insists that the solutions adopted by the government in these two and a half years are "absolutely valid." A different view and the EU Environment Commissioner, Janez Potocnik, that what is happening these days in Campania, however, shows that the measures taken since 2008 "is insufficient". Who is right?
Fifteen years Berlusconi tells stories with great success. The trouble is that Italy is a country of poor memory on almost everything. The waste crisis in Campania in the last few years is a recurrent phenomenon and has deep roots, which can be traced to the decision of the board rakes in office until the millennium, to entrust the entire waste cycle - from the construction of the incinerator for treatment facilities and storage - in private hands by contract. Unfortunately the race was won dall'Impregilo Cesare Romiti, who took the name Fibe Campania.
Bertolaso \u200b\u200bminimize. He says that by November the Acerra incinerator "fully operational" after which, with the operation of incinerators in Naples and Salerno "will solve everything."
Acerra should have entered a regime in 2008, why this delay? Meanwhile million tons of waste piled up in the form of eco-bales are waiting to be disposed of. Every day in Campania, there are over 7 thousand tons of waste to be managed. Doing the math, it is not difficult to understand that it will take at least a dozen years to burn the accumulated. I do not understand then why insist on opening a second landfill in the park of Mount Vesuvius. I remember that at the time of the Prodi government, Bertolaso \u200b\u200bresigned because he had proposed as a solution to the famous Serre landfill in the province of Salerno, with a capacity of one million cubic meters and a half and lying on a bed of clay often more twenty meters. The ideal place to host waste because the clay, being waterproof, preventing infiltration into the soil below. The minister Pecoraro Scanio was opposed because the landfill would rise five hundred yards from I know not what the WWF oasis. Incredibly Prodi gave reason to his minister and Bertolaso \u200b\u200bwent away. Waste even the left has made some colossal mistakes. Errors on which Berlusconi has built his lies.
Landfills, however, are managed at the provincial level and Serre is the province of Naples.
That waste is a regional responsibility which can then be compartmentalized to the provinces. There is no provincial plan for the waste, there is a regional plan. What else should
do to get out the emergency waste in Campania?
The trouble is that in Campania, for various reasons, we produce more waste than in the rest of Italy. For example, since there is a lot of agriculture, here are 20% of workforce longer. Should be made to work better all the treatment plants that, if I remember correctly, seven and seven had remained, almost all in the province of Naples. For example, plants Caivano are nothing more than strips that make the screening of garbage, have never been able to produce compost and also the separation hurt.
And the collection? Did you know that there is a municipality in the Vesuvian where 53%? It's called Cercola, 21 thousand inhabitants, is attached to Naples. But the streets are clean ...
If that is why there are small towns with good mayors, where the differential is 80%. Today Naples is 19% but you can not compare a small town in a big city, where everything is more difficult. And then I also think that if one side is right and condemn government unable even corrupt, the other should be noted that even the intermediate - level administrative workers - have excelled. Remember when the trucks to collect garbage in Naples could not leave the store because they had punctured the tires? Which should also Campania citizens did their part, participate more in recycling and modifying certain styles of life, since they produce more waste on average than elsewhere in Italy. Certainly we must avoid the mistake of thinking ricommettere - as the government is doing - that resolves the problem of waste by incineration. Instead, there is a need for efficient industrial system in which all stages of the disposal to act in a coordinated manner: separate collection, recovery, recycling, reprocessing of what progresses.
free (24/10/2010)