2,400 tons of trash have piled up in the streets of Naples, Italy. City trash hasn't been collected due to public outrage of a proposed city dump. Residents are protesting not only the building of a new landfill, but the conditions of an existing landfill, which they say poses an environmental and health hazard. Last week Italian Prime Minister, Berlusconi, promised that within 10 days the situation should be brought back to normality. He also mentioned that the current landfill poses no risk to the residents. I can only imagine the smell and all the diseases that are carried by trash. Hopefully, the government will move into quick action otherwise, like I said, diseases might start spreading and it will be harder to control.
Link to site: http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_newsroom/20101025/wl_yblog_newsroom/in-photos-an-italian-city-buried-in-trash
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