There will be no Rome trash
emergency when people come back from their holidays in
September, Rome city cabinet member for the environment Paola
Muraro said Monday.
"The (waste treatment) plants have been emptied out," she
said.
"Collection routes have been increased, so there will be no
emergency".
Muraro admitted the city's new trash collection plan hasn't
worked as well in the outlying districts as in the center. She
also said the administration of Mayor Virginia Raggi is
committed to shutting down a waste treatment plant in the city's
northern Nuovo Salario neighborhood that has has locals up in
arms because it periodically wafts putrid odors into residential
areas.
"We want to convert it into a technological research center
that will give lustre to the city of Rome," Muraro said. "This
is our promise, we will do it but it requires time and we ask
citizens to be patient. We will not make a mockery of anyone".
Nuovo Salario community groups have blasted the city's
umpteenth pledge to deal with the plant.
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