Dear Editor,
the question of waste in Campania, and on this we can not agree with Roberto Saviano, is not an emergency, but - unfortunately - a condition of (a) normal, which has dragged in accordance with the common clichés, which draws on the same Saviano to give strength to his narrative, at least sixteen years since that law was enacted for a state of alarm.
In fact, without resorting to the belly of Naples Matilde evening or late nineteenth-century tales about Naples humiliated by cholera and dirt, enough to dwell on the few sentences below to understand how the problem of sanitation in our cities, is far from recent history. Flash nr1: "Failure to return the bags for garbage collection is causing considerable discomfort among citizens. Many residents are forced to throw garbage on the streets, wrapped in paper. And this is a grave danger to public health. This morning, some streets in the Chiaia district - the most famous and elegant the city - appeared smeared with heaps of garbage in every corner. "
Flash nr 2: "Tons of solid waste were dumped in the streets, after the abstention from work of employees all'autoparco Via Gianturco. Failure to exit the truck, last night, this morning has caused serious hardship to the inhabitants of the old town, those of the northern and eastern part of the city. A Secondigliano, Marianella at the heaps of waste has reached in some cases, the meters in height. The fleet of Via Gianturco has over 100 trucks that make the collection service over a large area [...] in the evening increased the hardships because - also on the Feast of Saint Anthony, patron saint of animals - has been set on fire a number of garbage containers on city streets and peripherals. The flames, which in some cases have reached a considerable height, caused danger. In a street in the suburb, the fire department have been thwarted in their work by groups of hooligans who have stoned, damaging them, some trucks. The police arrested some people, who then released. For the situation created in the city for the tons of solid waste on the roads in many telephoned to newspapers and other print media and television stations, asking, like the traffic, the intervention the prefect. "
And, finally, flash No. 3: "Even today the removal of waste in Naples has been slow due to the high number of vehicles, about two hundred, still for mechanical failures. Containers, placed in the streets of Naples, are still mostly full of junk. "
looks like the description of the city today, or a week ago. At most, it might seem like the description of the city sixteen years ago, when it exploded the garbage emergency in Naples. In fact, there are three excerpts from many articles, published by the Neapolitan daily, on 19 February 1981, January 17, 1982 and March 4, 1984. Guess, at least thirty years ago. Yesterday as Today, nothing has changed. So what does this mean? That the affair has ancient roots and deep waste, of which the Camorra is only one aspect deteriorating and certainly among the most dangerous. Campania
If we cover up of garbage and shame, before the whole world, it is because those who had to check, who should plan, those who had to manage, those who had to ensure the functionality of the mechanisms has not done so. For willful misconduct, or gross. Then came the Camorra. Then, organized crime has taken over, in the sinuous and insinuating sinful aspects of the bureaucracy and public administration that, with the Beast, fell to terms. But if it stands, clearly, the political responsibility of the Camorra thugs, then you do not go away. Or you could, at best, to confusion, though in good faith.
Sure, it's good to talk Saviano dell'ecomafia Caserta front of millions of viewers and the splendid reportage "la Repubblica and L'Espresso", but the fusion between historical truth and literary fascination and judicial, in a matter so delicate, with all the implications of public order and safety arising from the risk of generating imaginative atmosphere which have no grip with reality. I think, for example, when the writer cites - and does so with some frequency - the legend that would the carcass of a whale buried in the dump in Pianura, a suburb of Naples. The tone he uses Saviano are very impressive and seems to see this new Captain Ahab in a filthy dive of the port, contact Camorra and fixer so that they will go away that mountain of fat and rotting flesh, entangled in a fishing net who sway - rocked by the oil - off the Gulf of Naples. Why, one wonders at the end of the story, even in Naples whales end up in landfills? And if you end Moby Dick imagine what else hides the stomach of mother nature, in those areas ...
The case - in hindsight - is a bit 'less imaginative, but not the less dramatic as Saviano says: There really is a whale in the Pianura dump. It is not a legend or a story passed from mouth to mouth among the inhabitants of the neighborhood, as was done among the Indians of America. The whale - 7 meters long and weighing eight tons, run aground off the island of Ischia - is buried at the site because the operation license for the former city councilor of Health, Giuseppe Scalera. The municipal ordinance is July 17, 1989. And, at that time, this solution is the shared City, Region and Prefecture.
The question, then, is not: there is really a whale at the landfill? But, because there's a whale in the landfill?
(Published in "Time", November 25, 2010)
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