The Rome city council, and the Lazio
regional government clashed Wednesday over a trash crisis in the
Italian capital.
Rome Mayor Virginia Raggi said that the sight of the rubbish
in the streets was a "disgrace" and that the city was working
"round the clock" to solve the crisis, while the EU had said No
to new waste dumps and incinerators.
Raggi said she had sent the regional government a request to
authorise new waste plants, but Lazio Governor Nicola Zingaretti
denied this.
He said "the doors are open to new proposals plants" but
there had been "no such requests".
Raggi retorted by saying "meetings are OK but he should grant
the authorisations.
Meanwhile ex-premier Matteo Renzi said there should be "an
end to polemics" and we should all "get working on sorting out
this crisis".
Renzi has called out volunteers from his Democratic Party to
clean up the Rome trash on Sunday.
Meanwhile Environment Minister Gian Luca Galletti said that
Rome's existing refuse plan does not feature solutions to the
capital's trash crisis.
"Even though it sets ambitious recycling goals, the
refuse-management plan recently approved by the Rome executive
does not provide concrete solutions for the sustainable
management of the rubbish cycle in this phase and in the
transitional period to achieving those aims," Galletti said in
response to a question in the Lower House.
The owner of the sprawling but now closed Malagrotta dump,
Manlio Cerroni, said "without me Rome's trash problem will drag
on for years, indeed I'd say forever".
Cerroni was long the overboss of Rome's trash business.
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