Living far from Naples, my friends have often asked me recently where the problem is rooted in the garbage in Naples. They think that the mere fact of being Neapolitan I should be aware of all the mechanisms of political, social, business and why not, even anthropological who are behind this phenomenon which, incidentally, has no equal, even in the same South It is not that expert, but the idea I have done over the years, regardless of whether you come from the beautiful and ravaged Campania, far from "Felix" as the Romans called it at the time of Scipio, by virtue of the fertility of its land and its enviable climate.
I try to summarize in a few lines of the "history" of this complex and endemic problem.
In principle, the problem of waste in Campania is attributable to two orders causes:
1. almost total lack of differentiation in the collection of waste (except for some areas of Salerno and Irpinia, where, on the contrary, the differentiation comes up to 85%).
2. Exploitation of emergency situations, once created, by criminal organizations and businesses by disposing of the camp, in collusion with strong organizations even those members of the same.
The first cause is due to a over twenty years of marriage between political, business and the Camorra through the system of CONSORTIA joint venture, public and private. This system has actually allowed agl'imprenditori engaged in the disposal, in collusion with the mafia and protected by a large share of local political power to circumvent all the control mechanisms, both national and Community level, making the "consortium" a kind monopolistic cartel that inevitably ends up penalizing the competition and, ultimately, companies that win tenders can only be those belonging to the consortium. The fact, then, that such groups have a financial component public (sponsored by political parties and local government) and one private (the business community) means that the public portion of the contract to ensure the collection of waste in all municipalities of reality Consortium (eliminating any possible competition from other companies), but it also means that individuals from approprino profits, leaving all the expenses and losses to the public. In the end, therefore, spend little or nothing to the private party, but s'intascano all the profits. Obviously, such undertakings are almost always close to the Camorra, or even would be able to stand in the forefront in the consortium. The earnings of these companies are made even more conspicuous by the fact that, since the firms colluded, they have no intention of complying with national and community structure that are given, just that the "consortium, in some way lets do it with a series of artful deceptions of existing rules to their advantage by using the rules that govern life and activities of the consortiums. So, instead of promoting separate collection, recycling, incineration and gl'interventi of termoriduzione, they prefer only to classic landfills (many of which are also unfair and illegal), the old and traditional in which pit all possible, even those that waste should not end there because absolutely harmful . In this way the waste cycle is not completed, in some cases, even part and landfills eventually reach saturation.
The political class has always pretended not to understand that until it all ended in a landfill you could not get to a situation of saturation. In all civilized countries it is known that very little has to go to landfill, the smallest part of a general sample of urban waste, agricultural and industrial applications. Mention
aside, then, deserve the toxic waste, whose disposal the normal price would be about 70-80 cents per kg, while the companies of the Camorra they dispose of them illegally for about 10 cents per kg, destroying every form of competition because only a contractor does not dispose of these crazy prices.
The second set of causes lies in the state of emergency that is created for the reasons stated above. face of the emergency, the streets filled with waste, with the population on a war footing, the Camorra, the enterprises themselves end up offering to dispose of the surplus in their landfills, pushing up prices, using its emergency . In these cases, the commissioners of the government (De Gennaro and the various Bertolaso, for instance), but to start the collection and release piles of garbage from the streets, buying even in the eyes of voters in favor of the governments that hired them, turn a blind eye to the nature of the landfill that is going to be involved and the type of disposal practices. In the end it has the paradoxical case of an emergency that disposal in landfills is inadequate and illegal, mostly owned by the Camorra, which for these disposals take rivers of money from government and police stations, in addition, gets a standing outside deleterious emergence could never achieve. It is, in other words, the classic case of realization of the famous Neapolitan proverb "Horn and Mazza," referring, of course, the citizens of Campania.
In the end, therefore, prevail this approximate solution and the fall-back only because the face of upcoming elections and / or election campaigns, politicians interested in cleaning up the city and reach the result in positive affect citizens, regardless of the method used to do it.
In principle, it is a bit 'this is the story of the disposal in Campania and Naples in particular. Even the last cleaning, in my opinion just a facade, because the suburbs and some areas of the province are still under water from the waste, under this policy patch, as he called 10 years ago my professor of 'politics of' environment, "John Leo University of Naples. A policy not only patch, but that does not have a strong constituency behind any long-range planning nor a cut at the root of the problem . And then there's the classic turn of the knife in when they feel Neapolitans 2 out of 3 said: "This government at least some sort of cleaning has made it, who did not even existed before this." Oh well, what to say, "alive and lively Naples Italy."
I try to summarize in a few lines of the "history" of this complex and endemic problem.
In principle, the problem of waste in Campania is attributable to two orders causes:
1. almost total lack of differentiation in the collection of waste (except for some areas of Salerno and Irpinia, where, on the contrary, the differentiation comes up to 85%).
2. Exploitation of emergency situations, once created, by criminal organizations and businesses by disposing of the camp, in collusion with strong organizations even those members of the same.
The first cause is due to a over twenty years of marriage between political, business and the Camorra through the system of CONSORTIA joint venture, public and private. This system has actually allowed agl'imprenditori engaged in the disposal, in collusion with the mafia and protected by a large share of local political power to circumvent all the control mechanisms, both national and Community level, making the "consortium" a kind monopolistic cartel that inevitably ends up penalizing the competition and, ultimately, companies that win tenders can only be those belonging to the consortium. The fact, then, that such groups have a financial component public (sponsored by political parties and local government) and one private (the business community) means that the public portion of the contract to ensure the collection of waste in all municipalities of reality Consortium (eliminating any possible competition from other companies), but it also means that individuals from approprino profits, leaving all the expenses and losses to the public. In the end, therefore, spend little or nothing to the private party, but s'intascano all the profits. Obviously, such undertakings are almost always close to the Camorra, or even would be able to stand in the forefront in the consortium. The earnings of these companies are made even more conspicuous by the fact that, since the firms colluded, they have no intention of complying with national and community structure that are given, just that the "consortium, in some way lets do it with a series of artful deceptions of existing rules to their advantage by using the rules that govern life and activities of the consortiums. So, instead of promoting separate collection, recycling, incineration and gl'interventi of termoriduzione, they prefer only to classic landfills (many of which are also unfair and illegal), the old and traditional in which pit all possible, even those that waste should not end there because absolutely harmful . In this way the waste cycle is not completed, in some cases, even part and landfills eventually reach saturation.
The political class has always pretended not to understand that until it all ended in a landfill you could not get to a situation of saturation. In all civilized countries it is known that very little has to go to landfill, the smallest part of a general sample of urban waste, agricultural and industrial applications. Mention
aside, then, deserve the toxic waste, whose disposal the normal price would be about 70-80 cents per kg, while the companies of the Camorra they dispose of them illegally for about 10 cents per kg, destroying every form of competition because only a contractor does not dispose of these crazy prices.
The second set of causes lies in the state of emergency that is created for the reasons stated above. face of the emergency, the streets filled with waste, with the population on a war footing, the Camorra, the enterprises themselves end up offering to dispose of the surplus in their landfills, pushing up prices, using its emergency . In these cases, the commissioners of the government (De Gennaro and the various Bertolaso, for instance), but to start the collection and release piles of garbage from the streets, buying even in the eyes of voters in favor of the governments that hired them, turn a blind eye to the nature of the landfill that is going to be involved and the type of disposal practices. In the end it has the paradoxical case of an emergency that disposal in landfills is inadequate and illegal, mostly owned by the Camorra, which for these disposals take rivers of money from government and police stations, in addition, gets a standing outside deleterious emergence could never achieve. It is, in other words, the classic case of realization of the famous Neapolitan proverb "Horn and Mazza," referring, of course, the citizens of Campania.
In the end, therefore, prevail this approximate solution and the fall-back only because the face of upcoming elections and / or election campaigns, politicians interested in cleaning up the city and reach the result in positive affect citizens, regardless of the method used to do it.
In principle, it is a bit 'this is the story of the disposal in Campania and Naples in particular. Even the last cleaning, in my opinion just a facade, because the suburbs and some areas of the province are still under water from the waste, under this policy patch, as he called 10 years ago my professor of 'politics of' environment, "John Leo University of Naples. A policy not only patch, but that does not have a strong constituency behind any long-range planning nor a cut at the root of the problem . And then there's the classic turn of the knife in when they feel Neapolitans 2 out of 3 said: "This government at least some sort of cleaning has made it, who did not even existed before this." Oh well, what to say, "alive and lively Naples Italy."
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Gigi Landi
