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When the Trash Hits Your Eye Like a Big Pizza Pie
Streets of Naples fill with garbage, Italian army called in |
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07 Jan 2008 |
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| Posted at 4:41 PM on 07 Jan 2008 The ongoing trash problem in Naples, Italy, has become so bad that the Italian army has been called in to bulldoze piles of rubbish that were blocking entry to city schools. Garbage collection stopped more than two weeks ago, for the simple reason that all of the area dumps are full to overflowing. The city of 2 million creates some 8,000 metric tons of ... |
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| Topics: insanity, Italy, news, waste (all these topics) |
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