Posted on 07/09/2007 1:54:50 PM PDT by Uncledave
U.S. warns citizens over Naples garbage crisis Mon Jul 9, 2007 2:28PM EDT
ROME (Reuters) - The United States embassy in Rome has warned U.S citizens they may face a health risk in Italy's southern Campania region due to a garbage crisis that has filled streets with piles of rubbish.
"U.S. citizens traveling to or through the area may encounter mounds of garbage, open fires with potentially toxic fumes, and/or sporadic public demonstrations by local residents attempting to block access to dumps," the embassy said in an advisory note.
Since May, streets in Naples and nearby towns have been piled with household waste that has nowhere else to go -- the fault of political mismanagement, conflicting interests and organized crime.
The embassy warned that airborne particles and fumes from these fires could aggravate respiratory problems and the fires could release toxic substances into the air.
Last month the European Commission took legal action against Italy over the thousands of tonnes of uncollected waste, saying it posed serious health and environmental risks through the spread of disease and through pollution of air, water and land.
This isn’t over yet?!! How long has it been? 3 months?
Mama Mia! Such greatness from Europe.
oh, Unions.
Looks like it did when I was stationed over there 20 years ago!!..I remeber thinking as I was flying over “Ok theres the dump now where is the city?”
Looks like Italy needs someone who can make the garbage trucks run on time.
I’ll be on the Amalfi coast (south of Naples) in about 3 weeks. Going to check with the hotel and see what they have to say about this.
I lived in Napoli and garbage is a way
of keeping Muslims and others away.
Great city, very cool people but I
must admit, that's some spicy garbage.
If anyone has spent time in Italy, you know that public employee strikes are a weekly, sometimes almost a daily, problem. It’s rare that you get an entire month without a transit strike.
“Vedi Napoli e poi mori,”
(”See Naples, and then die.”)
This was going on when I was there in Nov. 06. What a waste of a great city.
Welcome back to 17th Century sanitation Naples.
So lemme get this straight.. the worst part about Europe is the all the Euro-Trash ?
We’ve known this !
Further brilliant idea: Announce to the public that Beckham has buried an autographed soccer ball in one of the piles.
From the pictures I’ve seen of this problem, Naples looks like the set of your average Charles Bronson movie.
Nice picture - all that trash under pics of - (could they be??) - politicians?
Hey,where’s Algore? All this waste is generating gases and heat,so how come Al baby doesn’t jump on one of his fuel burning jet planes and fly to Naples to straighten the problem out ???
I was just in Naples last week. I didn’t see any huge piles of garbage downtown or on the roads to the city center from the autostrada. Maybe the piles of garbage are out in the neighborhoods away from where visitors go. Also, I was in Sorrento, near Naples, for two days and there were no piles of garbage there either.
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