From: Rich Gauszka 

At least Naples Italy does

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It smells bad.

"If you see all this trash, you don't have much desire to eat,"
said the pizzeria owner, Vittorio Silvestri, 59, who, like most people in
and around Naples these days, is very angry at the city's leaders.

For a dozen years, Naples and surrounding towns like this one have
periodically choked on refuse, but the last two weeks have flared into real
crisis, as much political as sanitary. The trash began piling high in the
streets as places to dump the region's refuse officially filled up. The
last legal dump closed on Saturday.

And as the stench rose, 100 or more refuse fires burned some nights - one
of many protests for various causes that also included, inevitably, mothers
clutching rosaries on railroad tracks. Even the beleaguered men whose job
it is to collect the trash sympathized.

"The people are right," said Guido Lauria, who is in charge of
sanitation for a large section of the city, including the Soccavo
neighborhood, where his workers cleared away heaps of garbage Wednesday
morning. "You smell this. People have children, but animals come, then
insects. And then they complain."

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So it remains to be seen whether Naples is ready to overcome its trash
crisis, whether politicians can agree on where new dumps and incinerators
should be located. Shipping it abroad does not seem an option: Romania, one
of the few possibilities, recently said it would not take Italy's trash.

If difficult decisions are not made - and quickly - nearly everyone fears
trash will begin piling up again, with still more fires, anger and
questions on how this can still happen in Europe.

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