Rome is planning to turn children
into recycling vigilantes within the home, Mayor Ignazio Marino
said Thursday.
''Children are learning about trash recycling at school,
and we want to enlist them in raising the awareness of their
parents as well'', the mayor told a radio interviewer.
''We're thinking about giving them a kind of mayor's card,
authorizing them to fine parents who neglect to separate their
trash for recycling.
''We want to recycle more and more, and I thank citizens
because we have reached a 40% level of trash separation for this
purpose'', he added.
Rome authorities started a new citywide trash recycling
program in 2012, distributing bins for paper, glass, plastic and
metal, and non-recyclable trash.
Everyone is required by law to separate out their rubbish
before taking it to curbside dumpsters, although often trash
that should be separated is often contaminated with other
materials.
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