October 22, 2010

Naples Garbage Crisis

History repeats itself. In New York City in January 1969, the newly elected Mayor John Lindsay declared war on "the power brokers." Trash collection was one of the services which unions stopped providing. New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller used the National Guard to collect trash in May, five months after Lindsay took office and five months after the unions stopped collecting it.

[From article]
"Organised crime interests have been deeply entwined with rubbish collection in Naples for many years. But the problem has been aggravated by inefficiency, political opportunism and unscrupulous business operators."

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20101022/tts-uk-italy-rubbish-ca02f96.html

Berlusconi pledges to end Naples waste crisis

October 22, 2010

Reuters
Silvia Aloisi

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