Forty percent of Italy's
rubbish goes into landfills, an "enormous quantity" which is
"intolerable" and brings environmental risks, EU sanctions and
the attention of organized crime specialized in illegal waste
trafficking, said Environmental Minister Gian Luca Galletti on
Wednesday.
Galletti said the 'Unblock Italy' decree, which contains
measures to streamline business processes and untangle some of
the country's bureaucracy, will help the waste management sector
"rebalance" along socio-economic lines and among regions.
While some regions in Italy use incinerators and recycling
programs, others have closed landfills and export their waste to
be incinerated in foreign countries, where "paradoxically,
foreign countries profit from burning our waste", Galletti said.
Article 35 of the Unblock Italy decree defines incinerators
as strategic and has the objective of making the structures more
efficient.
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