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Global environmental challenges
What do we want? Separated waste collection for recycling! When do we want it? Now!
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It’s not an issue that often brings thousands of people into the streets – but recycling is a hot topic in Naples, the southern Italian city which has run out of landfills to put household waste which has accumulated in huge, stinking mounds in the streets.
Locals are resisting the emergency re-opening of dumps that are officially full and a giant incinerator won’t be ready for months or perhaps years.
The answer, some say, is recycling which would vastly reduce the volume of waste being dumped or burned. But for recycling, you need to sort trash into categories that can be reprocessed – like glass, paper and metal – from that which can’t. Despite the presence of recycling skips around Naples, only 10 percent of waste there is collected separately from the general waste stream, compared with 38 percent in northern Italy.
“Door-to-door collection of sorted waste now!” read a banner at a protest in Naples this week.
The question is: after 14 years officially in a waste “state of emergency” where politicians have failed to create a system that can handle waste disposal – a sector heavily infiltrated by the Camorra mafia – will the city ever be able to organise a workable recycling scheme?
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We want twice as many, heck 3 times as many garbage pick up trucks running as currently do… We want more CO2 polution, more fossil fuels used to recycle that which should not be recycled. Yah!
You should only recycle Aluminum cans, that’s it. It saves energy… Everything thing else is a gov’t imposed tax and spend plan that shouldn’t be done – and pollutes more than it benefits.
Before you believe the hype, get the facts.
Another environmental mess.
I am so fortunate to live in the Bay Area . . . where there is talks of soon having a zero waste program.
http://lamarguerite.wordpress.com
RRRRRR = 6R
Remove (Make ZERO Waste!) Reduce, Repair, Reuse, Recycle (locally,) Recirculate!
Isn’t it ironic that although only a few percent of Naples citizens have the financial “privilege” of visiting Switzerland, their household garbage could receive “VIP” treatment all the way to Geneva?
http://feww.wordpress.com/2008/01/12/swi ss-solution/
No one should criticize the US for not ratifying the Kyoto Protocol! Italy and the rest of the then EU did. At least we pick up the trash.
The root cause of the environmental declines we are facing throughout the world is a fulfillment of Bible prophecy. Once one-fourth part of the earth is destroyed (Re.6:7-8) we will move forward to the next Seal events, followed by Trumpet events, followed by Plague events. The earth is on a downhill slid; it will not recover. The first four Trumpet events will destroy an additional one-third part (Re.8:7-12).
Patricia (ndbpsa ©) Bible Prophecy on the Web