Naples Garbage Crisis Over, Says Berlusconi

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi announced Friday that the worst part of the Naples garbage crisis is over, even though huge piles of trash still line the city’s streets.

At a cabinet meeting in Naples, Berlusconi said the emergency phase of the crisis, which flared in December 2007, is over.

The garbage crisis came to a head when one of Naple’s two garbage dumps was closed, and area residents opposed opening new ones. Berlusconi addressed the problem by opening temporary landfills and shipping some 50,000 tons of stinking garbage to other parts of Italy and Europe.

At the height of the crisis, residents clashed with police over the burning of rubbish in the streets, and school officials closed schools to protect children from the noxious fumes from the mounting garbage piles.

In May, two months after taking office, Berlusconi appointed a ‘garbage czar’ to address the problem that has plagued the region for more than 15 years.

Long-term plans to solve the garbage woes in the southern Italian city will include implementing a viable system of garbage collection, incineration, and recycling, and opening new dump sites and landfills in the region.

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