When you talk about the role of politics in the emergency waste in Campania, and the convenient use of organized crime to dilute the responsibility before the public, we must be extremely careful not to join, so prejudicial to the false syllogism that states: if the Camorra does business with the garbage and the garbage invades the city, then that is the garbage of the Camorra. Rather, it would be fair to say that this is the garbage that is tempting to gangs. Because, as shown by many surveys of the judiciary, the mafia took advantage of the crisis, not generating it. Paradoxically, the Camorra offers solutions with storage facilities, landfills and trucks for transportation. The all, of course, well hidden behind the company, registered with papers and bills above all suspicion. And when they are not, above all suspicion, a strong bribe helps helps to digest everything. To create the emergency, are always inefficiencies of politics and local government at all levels. As demonstrated by the fact, not quietly reported in the press village, which in 2009 had sixty Municipalities of Ontario (twenty of which are only in the province of Naples) defaulting on the front of the collection and disposal of waste. And this is a statistic that in 2010, will surely worsen. The collection, you know, is one of the cornerstones of good e funzionale gestione del ciclo dei rifiuti, perché se non si riesce a selezionare e limitare all'origine, dunque, nel cestino di casa, la quantità e la qualità dei rifiuti che poi dovranno finire in discarica, allora c'è ben poco da fare. Il capoluogo, su questo punto, versa in una situazione disastrosa, con il 18 per cento appena, ben lontana dagli standard richiesti dalla legge (65% entro il 2012) e sventolati, come miracolosamente raggiungibili dal centrosinistra napoletano.
D'altronde, che al Comune di Napoli – retto dall'ex ministro dell'Interno, Rosa Russo Iervolino – ci sia un inquietante livello di superficialità e di pressappochismo, nell'affrontare tematiche legate all'ambiente e alla health, demonstrated by the fact that between municipal administration and Asia, the company that deals in the city, the collection and street sweeping, has never been formalized in a contract of service or the document that puts in black and white, the obligations contractors and related penalties. If, for example, the City of Naples decided to contest any disruption to Asia, there would be no fine to be paid because the contract does not exist. There is only a draft that was never brought to the city council and voted. And this from a lot 'of years, at least since 2003. In practice, we are dealing with a company that operates in the waste sector, the third largest municipality in Italy more abusive or not.
It must have been an oversight? Well, we say yes. We give credit to those who are center right and center in Naples, he admits to not having given due weight to this inexplicable oversight. What to say, however, the case of Camigliano, a village of 2 thousand inhabitants in the province of Caserta, where the Town Council was dissolved, despite having reached 65 percent recycling? The only answer is the obtuseness and shortsightedness of the bureaucracy of politics, why punish a virtuous body capable of defending its territory, which seeks - and gets - the unanimous cooperation of citizenship and, more importantly, where can all the others, or almost bankrupt, means you have no ideas clear about how you administer a community. Camigliano was commissioner, because the mayor did not want to bring to the roles of the Province of Caserta Tarsu, the municipal tax on waste. And not because he knew he wanted them to deliver, well, that obey the law would be the first step towards the abyss. Moral of the story: along came the prefectural commissioners and the mayor was forced to move out. What a beautiful picture.
(Published in "Time", November 27, 2010)
