Lazio, Campania, Sicily are the
worst regions in Italy for waste management, a report presented
at the Ecomondo green economy conference in Rimini said
Wednesday.
The report, drawn up by environment agency ASPRA and the
Assoambiente association of environmental groups, flagged up "a
lack of adequate equipment to recycle waste".
It also said that the three regions showed "an absence of
energy valorisation for what cannot be recycled".
Further, Lazio, Campania and Sicily were marked by "trash
tourism towards other regions".
And finally, they "entrusted waste management too much to
disposal min waste dumps".
In Lazio, the report said, "waste tourism wins out".
In Sicily, it said, "there is a record for dumps and
recycling and recovery plants" but only 22% of waste is
recycled, the lowest level in Italy.
Campania, for its part, is "on the verge of a waste
emergency" and the capacity of dumps in the region "will be
exhausted within two months".
Campania has seen a string of waste emergencies over the
years and a spate of toxic waste fires in its so-called Land of
Fires area.
Lazio has also been at the centre of a series of trash
emergencies with Rome Mayor Virginia Raggi taking a lot of flak.
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