No Rome September trash emergency says Muraro

(ANSA) - Rome, August 22 - 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.