PalenQ

Perhaps this has been covered again recently but I do not recall seeing it in the past few weeks - but a friend just sent a postcard from Naples and said that garbage workers were once again on strike - or something so that garbage is piling up everywhere in the old city center - volunteers are trying to move it out but my friend said garbage and litter were everywhere.

This problem has been going on periodically for years - WHY? Anyone have a reason or know what's behind all of this?

Michael

The Camorra controls garbage collection, and it has an interest in keeping the system as it is. My understanding is that strikes occur whenever there is an attempt at changing garbage collection, such as trying to have a recycling program.

Here's what we saw when we were there: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mksfca/...57627058744325 but it was not "everywhere".

jamikins

Great...we just booked our flights to Naples for Easter haha...all the more reason to spend our time eating in restaurants

raincitygirl

That's so awful that they can't have a recycling program. A good book to read PalenQ ,is Gomorrah by Roberto Saviano. All about the Camorra. Interesting and scary.

I will be in Naples in early October so I will report back here on the garbage.

Michael

When we were there, there was trash but little garbage in that the piles of trash had very little odor.

A_Brit_In_Ischia

From an article in yesterday's "Roma" newspaper (published, despite its name, down here), the Fuorigrotta area appears worst at present - which may well be down to the treatment the garbage men had received there of late:

http://www.ilmattino.it/articolo.php...498&sez=NAPOLI

Or simply another example of the local tendency to apply a gun to one of its lower appendages whenever public gaze turns in their direction?

http://napoli.repubblica.it/cronaca/...ezza-41788215/

Amongst the topics for discussion at that conference, "Not just Rubbish, but Resources to Appreciate" !!

Naples.... the resource-full city?

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But like most major population centres, the lack of places where trash can be dumped or burned is an issue; there's nowhere suitable within the boundaries of Naples, and surrounding Comunes are understandably hostile to accepting its arrival.

But viz the reaction to an attempt by Rome's officials to solve their own forthcoming difficulties:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011...a-rome-rubbish

NIMBY, thank you!!!

Peter