Open-air landfills all over Naples. Borrelli: 'Christmas's scoundrels and poor service have caused serious damage'

The waste crisis seems to spare no part of Naples: from the province to the city, from the at-risk neighborhoods to the upper-class area, from the capital to the towns of the entire regional territory, there is no place that is not the victim of illegal landfills, negligence, incivility and poor service.
"Reports are coming in from everywhere and they all tell us about open-air landfills, illegal waste dumping, green spaces reduced to dustbins, potential beauties transformed into alarming degradation. There is no specific type of neighborhood or citizen inclined to this type of crime but it is a widespread phenomenon, which is spreading like wildfire in every neighborhood and in the province. For example, in the last few hours alone we have received a report of an illegal dumping in Capo Posillipo, of open-air landfills in Pianura, in the Rione Berlingieri in Secondigliano and in Ponticelli, in Via Bartolo Longo, and of a disastrous situation for the steps and green spaces of Capodimonte and up to Piazza Carlo III." – commented on the subject of waste the Regional Councilor of the Greens Francesco Emilio Borrelli, who fights for legality and the defense of the environment and has set up an observatory against illegal and abusive dumping and the inefficiencies of the participating companies that have to deal with waste collection, who then continues – “The behavior of too many parents who have dumped in an ignoble way the paper and cardboard of the gifts given to their children by throwing them in a super uncivilized way everywhere is very serious. Open-air landfills are not only a manifestation of territorial and social degradation but they represent sources of risk, a high risk, for the environment and for the health of citizens and therefore it is urgent, first of all, to carry out interventions on the territory to clean up and reclaim the areas affected by waste dumping but, more importantly, it is radically to change our habits and customs and start to orient ourselves with a different mentality that can guarantee a rosier future, for us and for the environment.”